Latest Social Networks News

• 19 June 2013

• News: Don't panic! It's just that Facebook has been down

  Facebook has been down on Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times.

• 18 June 2013

• News: Startup beams your text msgs to extraterrestrials

  For 25 cents, would you send a short message deep into outer space in the hopes that an alien race might receive it?

• News: Facebook set to beef up Instagram with video?

  Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos.

• 17 June 2013

• News: 5 social media deals that make Waze and Tumblr seem like steals

  Google buys Waze. Yahoo buys Tumblr. Facebook buys Instagram.

• 14 June 2013

• News: Facebook to announce mysterious new product next week

  Facebook appears to have a new product up its sleeve that it will unveil next week at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

• News: Facebook to announce mysterious new product next week

  Facebook appears to have a new product up its sleeve that it will unveil next week at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

• News: Facebook sets new product reveal for June 20

  Facebook is gearing up for a product announcement on June 20, but isn't saying what it has planned.

• News: Oxford English Dictionary breaks own rule, lists 'tweet'

  Tweeting has become so popular that the Oxford English Dictionary broke one of its own rules to add 'tweet' to its lexicon.

• News: Nextdoor, your neighborhood social network, buddies up with New York City

  For better or worse, life is nothing like the Andy Griffith Show. Unless you live in Mayberry, chances are that you barely even know your neighbors, let alone borrow cups of sugar from them.

• News: Does encryption really shield you from government's prying eyes?

  If you're thinking about encrypting email in light of revelations about U.S. government spying, you may be wasting your time.

• News: French appeals court confirms Twitter must identify authors of racist tweets

  A French court of appeal has rejected a move by Twitter seeking to shield the identities of those responsible for posts last year contravening French laws on hate speech and carrying the hashtag #unbonjuif (a good Jew).

• 13 June 2013

• News: How Facebook Hashtags Impact Your Privacy

  Following in the footsteps of Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr and other social networks, Facebook finally gets hashtags. Here's what you need to know about the new feature and a look at how it does--and doesn't--impact your privacy settings.

• 12 June 2013

• News: Facebook finally adds hashtags #holla

  Your nonsensical hashtagged status updates on Facebook will now, at last, have some meaning. The social network on Wednesday said hashtags will now be clickable and searchable, like they are on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and, well, basically every other social network.

• News: Dunkin' Donuts flap proves the power of social media and a cool head in business

  Picture this: You own a small retail shop. Maybe a restaurant. An angry woman comes into your store and begins complaining--loudly and profanely--about bad service she says she received the prior day. She demands satisfaction--free stuff, mainly--and she's filming all of this on her cell phone. Compounding the problem, you're not actually at the store. There's just a lone, underpaid employee to deal with the increasingly crazy demands of a borderline lunatic ranting about something he wasn't even involved with originally.

• News: Facebook copies social rival Twitter, adopts hashtags

  Taking a page from Twitter's playbook, Facebook started to roll out the use of hashtags.

• News: What a #copycat: Facebook apes Twitter with hashtags

  Hashtags, the popular tool used on Twitter and in an array of other social sites to surface content around specific topics #likeso, are coming to Facebook.

• 11 June 2013

• News: Google wins over Waze, says the maps app will remain independent--for now

  The deal is done. After weeks of rumors, Google on Tuesday announced that it has snapped up Waze, the crowdsourced mapping app for iOS and Android.

• News: Facebook execs hammered with IPO questions at first shareholder meeting

  At Facebook's first shareholders' meeting, CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg took it on the chin Tuesday from stockholders unhappy about last year's IPO

• News: Hillary Clinton sends first #tweetfromhillary

  Hillary Clinton joined the 21st century on Monday with her very first tweet--a possible sign that she is pondering a presidential run in 2016.

• 10 June 2013

• News: Waze could drive better social tools at Google, experts say

  Waze's crowdsourced traffic and navigation app is attractive to Google, which is said to be a serious suitor for the app, because of the wealth of mapping data it offers. But Waze's biggest draw may be social, some experts say.

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