Facebook’s new Graph Search and Google: This means war

Facebook's new Graph Search is the first service that has the potential to eat Google's lunch.

Small business of America: Double down on Facebook now to be part of the new graph search

Facebook announced its new graph search today. And everything in local marketing is going to change, again.

Now Facebook is competing with everyone in local search, including Apple and Google

What it's really going to do is open up the vast hoard of Facebook data and eat the lunch of a thousand large and small companies that make money by aggregating and rating what people do and where they go.

Can ‘big data’ lift people out of cycles of debt? (debate)

Can Big Data play a role in alleviating poverty? Here's what the experts had to say.

Facebook must be low on cash, now charging $100 to message Mark Zuckerberg

Want to send Mark Zuckerberg a message via the social network he created? That could cost you $100 ... with no guarantee Zuckerberg will ever see it.

Digg pokes up its head and says, ‘I’m not dead yet’

If this is success, I'm not sure what failure looks like.

Facebook’s new regional fan breakdown outs brands that have been buying likes

On December 21 last year, Facebook quietly added the ability to segment fans by region. Which means that social media monitoring companies are now finding all kinds of juicy oddities in fan counts of major brands.

Christmas 2012 shopping: paper catalogs whipped Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, and Amazon is the new Google

I guess we're just not as advanced as we think we are. Or, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

The Associated Press starts selling access to its Twitter feed; Samsung is first customer

The Associated Press is running a sponsored tweets campaign. But the news company is not paying Twitter any money, and the sponsored tweets are not the kind of sponsored tweets that we're used to.

Twitter to be a fat cat this year with $11B valuation

After studying the secondary markets, one analyst firm says Twitter is now worth as much as $11 billion or more. It also suspects the company may soon test the IPO waters, if the markets improve.

Michigan passes Internet privacy act to protect students and employees

In Michigan, getting a hold of current and potential employees' social media account information, just got a lot more difficult.

The Prez is king: Obama named ‘most influential social media person’ of 2012

Perhaps it was the most re-tweeted tweet in history. Or the photo with the most Facebook likes ever. Most likely, it's a history of consistently engaging via social media.

Mailman Group establishes venture fund to break startups out of the box

Shanghai-based socia media agency Mailman Group sets up at [sesame] seed stage startup fund.

How Washington went social in 2012: the top 10 moments in politics and technology

In 2012, the promise of the social election finally came to fruition. From gaffes and memes to true triumphs, here are Washington's top 10 tech moments.

Study: Almost 50% of top Pinterest pins link to webpages that don’t exist

48 percent of the most popular pins on Pinterest lead to expired pages on top retailers brands, according to a new study by Curalate, the social curation company.