More Social Networks News

• 15 May 2013

• News: Google launches subscription music service

  Google is rolling out a subscription music service that will bring users unlimited access to millions of songs in return for a monthly fee.

• News: Google says it has 900 million Android activations

  Google's Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event began in San Francisco.

• News: Pinterest is making it too easy to spend all your time on Pinterest

  Pinterest sure is stepping up its game when it comes to app improvements.

• 14 May 2013

• News: How one woman's abduction led to the Watch Over Me app

  "Send me home, please."

• 13 May 2013

• News: Twitter buys big-data analyzer Lucky Sort

  Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a data analytics company, in a move that could give the social network deeper insights into its users' tweets and how to best place advertisements on its site.

• 11 May 2013

• News: At Google I/O, expect Android, Chrome, and some privacy questions about Glass

  Google kicks off its I/O developer conference next Wednesday and if there's one thing that could steal the limelight from Android, Chrome and all the other Google projects, it's Glass.

• 10 May 2013

• News: A last-minute Mother's Day gift via Twitter to show Mom you didn't (completely) forget her

  It is going to happen. Millions of awful self-absorbed people will wake up in a panic on Sunday realizing that they completely forgot it was Mother's Day! Thankfully, Coke Zero is teaming up with marketing agency Droga5 to help the forgetful offspring of America cobble together a last-minute present for Mom that will make it seem like they actually put some thought and effort into this year's gift.

• News: Bing brings more of Facebook to search

  Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site.

• News: YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

  Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.

• News: Twitter buys Ubalo to speed up its back-end

  Twitter has acquired Ubalo, a company that provides various services aimed at speeding up the coding process, the social network announced Thursday.

• 09 May 2013

• News: YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

  Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.

• News: Facebook Home attracts close to 1 million downloads

  Facebook has attracted "just about" 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability.

• News: Facebook Home attracts close to 1 million downloads

  Facebook has attracted "just about" 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability.

• News: Facebook may be driving deal for Waze mobile app

  Facebook reportedly is in talks to buy a popular Israeli-based crowd-sourced mapping and traffic app.

• News: 5 insanely niche social networks to combat Facebook fatigue

  If social networks were ice cream flavors, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter would be hopelessly vanilla.

• 08 May 2013

• News: Facebook to Microsoft: Dump fake Facebook apps from Windows Phone Store

  Facebook has asked Microsoft to remove 41 unofficial and clone 'Facebook' apps from the Windows Phone store as the social network prepares to introduce its official app for the platform.

• News: Manage multiple social media accounts with your Mac

  Keeping up with just one social media account is tough enough. But if you personally hang out on even one or two more services, or are in charge of socializing with your business's customers online, juggling it all starts to feel a lot more like work, and not the fun kind. Here are a few tools and tricks--some for power users, others for business cases, and even a slightly nerdier option--that can help take the drudgery out of managing social media.

• News: Welcome sign for hijackers on 24-7 for 30% of social networkers

  Survey also finds nearly half of netizens need nudge to change passwords

• News: Social and mobile a priority for businesses, but so are traditional outlets: Optus

  There is a lot of industry chatter about using digital means in engaging with customers, but Optus has found that bricks and mortar and call centres are still prevalent in Australia.

• News: Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster

  A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves.

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