In a dramatic turnaround from policy created — and enforced — three years ago, Google has now reversed its “real names” policy. Users can now use any name they want across Google services. The … Continue reading →
What we didn’t expect was to find that Facebook played with the emotions of 689,000 of us during one week in January 2012. The scientists involved found, by rigging the users’ news … Continue reading →
Facebook has announced its Premium Video Ads will begin running in Australia and six other countries including the UK and Canada. The 15-second video ads will appear in users’ … Continue reading →
Receiving spam messages or malicious links from your friends is not uncommon for anyone who uses social media services. Now Facebook has announced fresh moves to combat it, by notifying … Continue reading →
Facebook has set its sights on the mobile space and is looking to software developers to help expand its growing presence on devices. Pledging platform stability and increased user … Continue reading →
Symantec has seen another round of a ham-fisted but surprisingly successful attack that targets Facebook users hoping to break into their friends’ accounts. The seed of the scam is a … Continue reading →
Cisco and Jive are marketing a bundle that includes Cisco’s WebEx Meetings and Jabber for online meetings, Web conferencing, IM and audio/video communications and Jive’s ESN software, which provides “Facebook … Continue reading →
Re/Code broke the story on Thursday morning, although it is speculated the news first got out on the budding anonymous mobile app Secret. Regardless of what spread on the rumor … Continue reading →
Facebook continues to dominate on iOS and Android, by time spent, but its lead has slipped slightly. The average U.S. user spent an average of 2 hours and 42 minutes … Continue reading →
Twitter, the popular short conversation social network site, went down at approximately 2 pm EDT on Tuesday. By 3 pm, the service seemed, for the most part, to be back … Continue reading →
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