Enterprise social networking company Jive Software has considerably upgraded its product offerings for the first time since the company went public last December, with the debut of new apps to help its customers stay in touch and collaborate better.
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Japanese mobile social network Gree has acquired Funzio, a fast-growing maker of hardcore mobile and social games, for $210 million.
Funzio has the rare distinction of having three games that have all garnered big audiences. Over the weekend, as we …
Social network Facebook is poised to start its IPO roadshow as soon as Monday, according to sources of the Wall Street Journal. If the meetings with bankers go as planned, the company could IPO as soon as May 18.
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Merchants looking to skip the line and get instant access to Foursquare’s business tools need only grease the wheels with a sawbuck.
The location-based discovery service, which offers merchants free access to analytics and admin tools, is now enabling businesses …
Flickr and Pinterest have teamed up to provide photo-pinners with a simple tool for inspired sharing.
Tuesday, Flickr released a share-to-Pinterest button that will ensure all pinners past and present properly attribute images plucked from Flickr to the source of …
Information discovery is the name of Twitter’s game, so Tuesday the home for short-and-sweet bursts of news announced enhanced tools to better predict more of the stories members want to see.
Twitter has tweaked its Discover tab to feature more …
After teasing a new “life-saving” feature yesterday, Facebook has announced the ability to add organ donation status to a person’s Facebook Timeline.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Good Morning America early today to talk about the feature, saying that …
Community news sharing site Digg is rumored to be in acquisition talks with the Washington Post and possibly others, sources familiar with the matter told VentureBeat.
Serious negotiations with the Washington Post have been going on almost a month, but …
The iPad and other smart devices are becoming an ideal platform for entertaining children. But the problem with content for kids on the App Store is that it is just too hard to find.
So YogiPlay is announcing today it …
What happens when you add life-saving capabilities to the world’s largest social network? We’re all about to find out — that is if an interview between ABC News’ reporter Robin Roberts and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg lives up to …
Shifting from Facebook to mobile, Crowdstar is announcing today that it will publish games through Gree‘s worldwide mobile social network.
The alliance isn’t a surprise in one respect: Gree purchased OpenFeint, a sister company to Crowdstar, from YouWeb for $104 …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made his mark on the fast-growing video sharing startup Viddy, after signing up for the service and sharing a video of his dog. The move has tech watchers eyeing many comparisons to Viddy and just-purchased …
Can anyone say tempest in a teapot?
Nothing gets the interwebs’ panties in a knot like a good ranking controversy. Think of all the catfights we’ve had over Google’s PageRank, Facebook’s EdgeRank, or ComScore site metrics. But perhaps Klout beats …
After finding success in Sweden and across Europe for its effort to revitalize the gift card industry, Wrapp is finally launching in the U.S. today. And to prove it’s serious, the company has more than 25 retailers signed up to …
Check-in service Foursquare is helping its BlackBerry fans bridge the cross-platform communication gap, enabling them to exchange tips, lists, venues, and profiles with friends by way of near field communication support in the newest version of its BlackBerry app.
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Today, social networking giant Facebook found itself once again on the defensive. Litigious cross-town rival Yahoo has filed new claims against the soon-to-IPO company, asserting that Facebook’s patents are “tainted.”
“Today Yahoo! filed additional claims against Facebook in U.S. District …
The animated GIF is one of the few native art forms on the web, a delightful micro-movie which has spawned countless memes. Cinemagram combines the stylish filters and simple sharing of Instagram with a app that allows users to turn …
Nexon, the online gaming giant that went public in December, plans to publish A Bit Lucky‘s Lucky Space social game in Korea.
The move is a boost for A Bit Lucky, a game startup in San Mateo, Calif., and it …
Antti Stén, the lead server architect for the original Angry Birds, and Tuomas Erikoinen, lead artist, have left Rovio to create a new game studio called Boomlagoon.
Hey Twitter fanatics, your favorite social network for short bursts of information has released updates to its iPhone and Android applications so that you can feed the beast and find out what’s happening even faster.
Twitter for iPhone and Twitter …
