For new users, Facebook now puts privacy first

Facebook has made some changes to privacy, and this time, they’ll be most important for the 5 million citizens of Earth who don’t already have Facebook accounts.

Starting today, new users signing up for new accounts will get the low-down …

Hootsuite debuts a big, shiny, election-tracking tool for Twitter, Facebook

The U.S. presidential election is coming up on Tuesday, and Hootsuite has just unveiled a customized command center to track social media sentiment around the two main candidates.

“The command center is meant to offer viewers a sense of how …

Gigya launches partner ecosystem to turn social, gamification into cash

So you have a million likes on Facebook and your latest sweet nothing on Twitter was retweeted 10,000 times. How many dollars found their convoluted ways through all those pipes and tubes into your pocket?

Over half of the world’s top 100 brands now on Instagram

54 percent of the world's biggest 100 brands are now connecting with fans and customers on Instagram, and brand adoption on Instagram is growing faster than Google+ and Pinterest.

Small business loves Facebook and Twitter, ignores LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest (infographic)

90 percent of small businesses are Facebook, and 70 percent are on Twitter. LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest? Not so much.

Survey: Most companies still not capitalizing on social media

For traditional businesses, social media is like a virus: it's furious, fast-growing, and impossible to ignore.

Update: Lithium Technologies issues $5.6M in shares to buy Social Dynamx

Lithium Technologies discloses $5.6 million, likely behind its recent acquisition of Social Dynamx.

Marissa Mayer’s grand vision for Yahoo is in technology, not media

With revenues drying up in online content creation, sources say that Yahoo will revert back to a technology company.

Study: brands don’t listen, answering fewer than half of customer questions on Facebook (infographic)

Customer service is going social. Unfortunately, it's traveling on the slow boat to customer satisfaction.

Twitter now censoring tweets on a per-country basis (for the first time)

We already live in our own personal social media reality bubbles. Now Twitter is providing entire countries with their own reality bubbles.

HootSuite Command Center: take a little Bond, add social, throw in enterprise (shaken, not stirred)

In the movies, corporate barons and evil geniuses have command and control centers with giant screens displaying the disposition of their empires. A new product from HootSuite may not make you James Bond or Dr. Evil ... but it will give you the ability to see and showcase your social media status in a very big way.

Facebook, Twitter, and teens: who’s winning the youth war

Sure, Facebook is the world's largest social network -- and the one currently ranked highest by teens. But don't count the little blue bird out yet: Twitter just might be winning the youth numbers game.

SproutSocial grows revenue 750% as social media bursts out of the marketing department

Most two-year-olds are growing fast. But few are growing as quickly as social media management service SproutSocial, which is riding the wave of social media escaping the marketing department and penetrating the entire enterprise.

Bottlenose pulls in $1M in funding for social search, Google’s achilles heel (exclusive)

With new investment in the bank, Bottlenose is angling for dominance in the social media monitoring and analytics space.