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• 24 April 2012

• News: The 5 Best Free Social Media and Communication Tools of 2012

  Stay on top of your social media with a few communication tools.

• 21 April 2012

• News: Facebook Invites More Comment on Policy Changes

  Facebook began notifying some of its members Friday night that it is reopening the comment period for changes in its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR).

• 20 April 2012

• News: Maryland Leads Nation in Banning Employers' Facebook Snooping Efforts

  Maryland will likely become the first state to ban employers from asking for applicants' log-in information on Facebook and other social media sites.

• News: Social predators still gaming the system on Facebook

  Despite an increasingly severe crackdown by the ubiquitous social network, malicious activity and spam on Facebook are still both widespread and profitable, according to Barracuda research scientist Daniel Peck.

• News: Social events calendar shown off at DEMO, prepares to branch out from Boston

  Thanks to a couple of boring weekends that SCHEDit founder and CEO Omar Tellez had in Princeton, N.J., my friends and I have a new way to keep track of our best options for every weekend in Boston.

• 19 April 2012

• News: The Facebook effect

  Mark P McDonald of Gartner says becoming a social organisation is a true source of competitive advantage for networked enterprises.

• 18 April 2012

• News: Catching the wave; IBM CIO talks about social media at Big Blue

  With over 400,000 employees in around 170 countries, the future for IBM will depend on how well it can enable communication and collaboration within its own business units, says CIO Jeanette Horran.

• News: Banjo hits 1 million users, signaling mainstream interest in social location apps

  The mobile app Banjo hit a million users this week, suggesting that a new crop of location-based social apps may become popular with mainstream users despite their privacy concerns.

• News: How to Use Facebook 'Offers' to Market Your Business

  Facebook's new Offers feature lets businesses post coupons and discounts to their followers' News Feeds. First announced in March, Offers is rolling out gradually to select types of Facebook business pages.

• 17 April 2012

• News: Twitter unveils patent policy meant to give its employees more rights

  Twitter on Tuesday unveiled a proposed patent assignment framework that seeks to give employees who create works more protection over how their inventions are used.

• News: Facebook Launches 'Offers,' Adds Coupons to Your News Feed

  Eight months after killing its Deals feature, Facebook is launching a new service called Offers, which makes discounts and coupons available from businesses you have "Liked" on the social network.

• 16 April 2012

• News: Facebook to make profile URL usernames and email handles the same

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• News: How Not to Spam Twitter: 5 Tips

  The PC World (US) story "How Not to Spam Twitter: 5 Tips," posted on Friday, incorrectly stated that Twitter sued Adscend Networks.

• News: Twitter Tech Support: How Effective Is Tweeting a Tech Problem?

  As the Web becomes increasingly social, more and more companies turn to Twitter to address problems that customers have with their products or services. After all, the last thing a company wants is for a Twitterer's minor problem to go viral across the Internet, just because the company didn't deal with the issue effectively when it had the chance.

• 13 April 2012

• News: China scrubs online rumors from Internet, shuts down sites

  China has taken down more than 210,000 online posts and closed 42 websites since mid-March as part of a crackdown on Internet rumors, which authorities claim represent a danger to society, officials said Thursday.

• 12 April 2012

• News: Google+ update irks developers

  Due to a reporting error, the story "Google+ update irks developers," posted to the wire Thursday, misspelled the name of a developer quoted in the story. The correct spelling is Mohamed Mansour.

• News: Google+ update irks developers

  When Google rolled out significant changes to Google+ on Wednesday, it did so without first warning developers on the platform, and at least one prominent developer is fuming.

• 11 April 2012

• News: Yammer buys OneDrum for Office collaboration tools

  Enterprise social networking vendor Yammer said Wednesday it has purchased OneDrum, maker of software that allows users to work on Microsoft Office documents and other files collaboratively. Terms were not disclosed.

• News: Google+ gets a facelift

  Google+ began rolling out a redesign on Wednesday that it hopes will make the social platform "easier to use and nicer to look at," according to a blog post.

• 09 April 2012

• News: Facebook to Buy Instagram for $1 Billion

  Facebook plans to acquire Instagram for roughly $1 billion in cash and stock, but says it will allow the popular photo app to grow independently.

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