Sex crimes may soon be a lot harder to keep secret for social network users in Louisiana.
A new law, which goes into effect August 1, will require that sex offenders clearly state their criminal status on social network sites …
Swipp, a stealthy Silicon Valley startup is betting that the social network in all its current glory is still just scratching the surface. It has raised $3.5 million in funding from Old Willow Partners.
Swipp — the name rhymes with …
South Korean technology giant Samsung on Thursday called rumors it was building a Facebook-like social networking service “groundless.”
Rumors started flying Wednesday about the prospect of Samsung creating its own social network after the Korea Times published a report with …
Twitter has added a slew of partners to make tweeted content more engaging with photos, videos, and news, the company announced Wednesday in a blog post.
“You’ve probably expanded Tweets before to play videos from YouTube or see photos from …
Global social network Twitter ran its first-ever TV commercial this weekend during a NASCAR race, but if history is any indication, commercials won’t necessarily help the service go mainstream.
Twitter’s 15-second commercial aired during the 2012 Pocono 400 NASCAR race. …
Cyberbullying is a very real problem on the web, and Facebook just took part in a landmark case to shed light on the identities of trolls who do real harm.
A 45-year-old woman named Nicola Brookes (pictured above) brought the …
The world now has access to a list of words and phrases that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security uses to monitor social networks and news article comments for terrorism and general threats against the country.
The list was part …
Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman said today that consumers are printing fewer photos. That’s why the company’s Imaging and Printing division saw sales drop 10 percent in the quarter.
The reason for that shift is interesting, and it may underscore …
Facebook is learning that money and fame cannot buy you everything. The social network has been thwarted in its aggressive pursuit to sue any company that uses “book” or “face” in its domain name, most recently against a porn site …
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Google+ is succeeding in small bursts, feature by feature. As a social network competing with Facebook it’s a flop, but its video-chat tool Hangouts is a winner. Now photo sharing is poised to be the service’s next breakout hit, thanks …
Twitter is experimenting with personalized lists of Who to Follow accounts. Interestingly, the company is accomplishing this using data generated by millions of embedded Tweet buttons around the web.
The Who To Follow functionality has been on Twitter for several …
Facebook’s initial public offering just keeps growing. The social network announced this morning via an amended S-1 filing that it will add around 84 million shares to its IPO, an increase of around 25 percent.
Come Friday, when the company …
George Orwell was an optimist.
After seeing the privacy-shattering updates that the FBI wants top websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google to implement, I’m wondering if his dystopic 1984 didn’t go far enough. After all, in mythical Oceania, it was …
While Facebook has focused on keeping in touch with the boring minutia of your current friends’ lives, social networking competitor Badoo has taken the opposite approach as a platform to make new friends. Badoo announced this morning that it will …
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The secret details of the $1 billion deal between Facebook and Instagram are more convoluted than anyone thought. VentureBeat has learned that Instagram chief executive and co-founder Kevin Systrom first got an offer and a term sheet from Twitter, then …
Business-focused social network Yammer is making good on its promise to all aspects of work software more social. Today the startup announced a slew of new features, including a new Universal Search tool, Premium Yammer Groups, more advanced content sharing …
Tired of the pithy online dating profiles, messaging systems, quick match games, “algorithmic matching,” and rating random people you’ve never met in real life? Take a big sip of Coffee Meets Bagel, the newest refreshing online dating play, which launched …
JockTalk is a social network for sports nuts and the professional athletes they love (or perhaps love to hate). The new site, announced today at the DEMO Spring 2012 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., combines profile pages, back-and-forth conversations, and …
Unhappy with the current state of collaboration in social networks, Luan Ngo-Tran decided to build one of his own: Tablen, a social network that harkens back to having conversations around a table with friends.
The company is making its debut …
Proving that second place doesn’t always equate to being the first loser, the world’s number two social network for professionals, Viadeo, (LinkedIn is number one), is getting $32 million in fresh financing.
The $32 million round, Viadeo’s fourth institutional round, …
