Social Media

Facebook celebrates $1.27B IPO with all-night hackathon: sends a message to Wall Street

Facebook celebrates $1.27B IPO with all-night hackathon: sends a message to Wall Streetby Nate Devore May 18, 2012 Editors Pick

Photo credit: By Francis Luu Facebook has officially gone public at a value of $1.27B. The company initially began trading shares at around $42 but that quickly dropped down to…

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Facebook Begins Rolling Out Fan Page Offers on News Feeds

Facebook Begins Rolling Out Fan Page Offers on News Feedsby Sajib April 18, 2012 Editors Pick

Last month Facebook unveiled the new timeline for brand pages. During that transition, Facebook “beta tested” offers with select brands on Facebook. Now it seems offers will be available to other brand…

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Study Finds Most People Trust Social Media and Friends over Ads

Study Finds Most People Trust Social Media and Friends over Ads by Sajib April 18, 2012 Web News

We reported earlier that a survey found most Americans prefer to receive offers through email rather than social media networks. A new survey suggests that people actually do like to know…

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Google+ Gets Major Re-design with Improved Navigation and Profile Layout

Google+ Gets Major Re-design with Improved Navigation and Profile Layoutby Sajib April 12, 2012 Editors Pick

Facebook‘s rival Google+ has recently announced a major redesign. The company says the new design is much simpler, more flexible and more beautiful which touches every functionality and feature of…

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Research Shows Americans Prefer Email Over Social Media to Receive Offers

Research Shows Americans Prefer Email Over Social Media to Receive Offersby Sajib April 10, 2012 Web News

New research has revealed that most people don’t like social media promotions from brands. Most people still prefer promotions and offers to be sent via email. The study was conducted…

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New Pinterest Clone Arrives in India, Appropriately Named “Pintile”

New Pinterest Clone Arrives in India, Appropriately Named "Pintile"by Sajib April 4, 2012 Social Media

It didn’t take long until Pinterest became an Internet craze. It also didn’t take long before it was copied. Pinterest is an online board where you can pin all of…

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Who’s More Influential? New Klout Matchup Tool Lets You Vote

Who's More Influential? New Klout Matchup Tool Lets You Voteby Sajib April 2, 2012 Social Media

Klout is an online service that determines how much influence you have on social networking sites. It uses different criteria to come up with a score that says how influential…

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Google to Launch Third-Party Commenting Platform with Google Plus

Google to Launch Third-Party Commenting Platform with Google Plusby Sajib March 31, 2012 Social Media

Google is rumored to launch a new commenting platform that will be closely integrated into their new social network Google Plus, web services and Google Search. According to Tech-WD blogger…

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Email Used More for Online Communication than Social Media (report)

Email Used More for Online Communication than Social Media (report)by Sajib March 29, 2012 Editors Pick

Although we’ve seen the rise of social media networks used for communication, a new survey has suggested that most people still use Email as their first mean of online communication….

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NASA’s Mars Rover is a rock-star on Twitter

NASA's Mars Rover is a rock-star on Twitterby Sajib March 16, 2012 Social Media

NASA’s newest traveling laboratory, Curiosity, apparently spends its leisure time on Twitter. The journey to Mars started at the end of November. Curiosity’s trip to the Red Planet is about…

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