Sharing your likes and dislikes about movies has always been popular online. Now Internet veteran IMDb is making it easier, announcing updated iOS and Android apps that makes sharing your big-screen tastes with Twitter and Facebook. The company also announced …
File this one under: why didn’t they think of this sooner?
Facebook announced a new format for Facebook Events today that finally lets members view friends’ upcoming birthdays, event invites, and suggested events on a calendar. Rocket science, we know.…
The rekindled relationship between Facebook and Apple will soon bring a deeply integrated Facebook experience to Apple iOS devices that will mean big things for the social network, consumers, and Apple’s developer community. We had an inkling that that would …
Recognizing that Facebook has become the people’s broadcast network, NBC Olympics, the official broadcast partner of the IOC, has today partnered with Facebook to provide consumers with London 2012 Olympics news and other coverage on Facebook, create social media segments …
Remember when Facebook only showed three ads on each page? And when the company moved to four in 2010? More recently, the company has been at six, and I’m currently seeing seven, but Facebook is now testing up to 10 …
With more than 900 million monthly active users, Facebook has become a significant attraction for app developers. But that considerable user base has also attracted another, less desirable group: malware and virus writers.
Facebook has caught onto this, which is …
Dave Morin, the chief executive of the private mobile social network app Path, was onstage at MobileBeat 2012 this morning with Michael Copeland, the senior editor of Wired. And Morin, true to form, was full of great one-liners.
Morin zinger …
Portalarium, the social game startup headed by famous developer Richard Garriott, has raised $7 million in funding to complete development of its first title, Ultimate Collector.
Your Facebook newfeed is about to get a whole lot more political.
This fall, Facebook will team up with CNN to bring Facebook users closer to the election action with a trio of new initiatives.
One of the new plans …
It seems like Facebook’s App Center is getting some global love. The social network’s marketplace is officially open to all users in the U.S. and seven other countries, and it will soon expand to seven more countries with new, translated …
Guest Post When it comes to the IPO, both the Valley’s entrepreneurs and our government leaders are misguided. The IPO isn’t a profit superhighway, with on-ramps and exits for entrepreneurs thirsty for a quick profit. Rather, an IPO is like a marriage.
The patent war between Yahoo and Facebook is over. The two companies not only settled the suit but extended the multiyear partnership between the two, including new deals for advertising.
The conflict began in March when Yahoo accused the social …
Facebook did a fair amount of internal testing before it unleashed Timeline on the world, and its engineers also tested out how apps would be able to access and publish to Timeline.
But instead of dogfooding Open Graph features with …
Facebook has invested in a 6,214-mile Asian undersea cable that will give better Internet connectivity to several countries, the BBC reports.
The investment could potentially help Facebook draw more users in South Asia, especially in places like Hong Kong, India, …
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Facebook, Twitter, and other social media heavyweights may be winning the race to most number of users, but sometimes, having “everyone” in one social network can do more harm than good. Newsfeeds and streams are cluttered, shameless self-promotion is rampant, …
Facebook better hurry up and re-send that friend request to GM. Other advertisers are starting to catch on that there’s more to the advertising world than the world’s largest social network.
In fact, according to a June study by 33Across, …
GM and Facebook are on speaking terms again. And while the details are still unclear, the two corporate giants are talking about a renewed relationship, according to the Wall Street Journal.
GM famously pulled its ads from the social media …
Apres Facebook, le deluge?
Not exactly, although there was a five-week initial public offering drought for venture-capital-backed companies until late last week. Facebook’s IPO was famously bad, almost the worst in a decade. At least one of the results, among …
Following Google’s lead, Twitter today released its first Transparency Report to shed light on how often it receives takedown and user information requests — and how frequently it has complied.
With six million tweets circulating per day, it’s no surprise …
The law may not recognize them, but in the eyes of Facebook, all marriages are equally worthy of a status update. Shortly after Facebook’s co-founder Chris Hughes posted news of his marriage to longtime partner, Sean Eldridge, the social networking …
