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It's been a pretty exciting week for social media, Facebook in particular. A day after adding 15-second videos to its Instagram photo sharing service, Facebook admitted that a bug in its system accidentally exposed 6 million users' personal information. Meanwhile, Google Plus might be adding Google Mine, a service to share your stuff.
At the Facebook even on June 20, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom introduced their challenger to Vine, an enhanced feature of the photo-sharing app that allows users to take 15-second videos and share them over social networks. The new Instagram comes with filters, but also includes a brand-new feature that Systrom says "will change video forever."
Following the lead of Microsoft and Facebook, on Monday, Apple Inc. revealed how much data on its customers the United States Government has asked for in recent months. Apple is one of the many tech companies that have been named as cooperating with the government in the NSA Internet surveillance program, called PRISM.
After Facebook sent out enigmatic coffee-stained postcard press invites to a June 20 event, saying "A small team has been working on a big idea. Join us for coffee and learn about a new product," rumors are hitting the internet that Facebook's Instagram might be adding video capability.
It's been a busy week in social media, with new ways to display what you've been doing on Twitter with #FollowMe and Facebook revealing how law enforcement has tried to follow what you're doing by disclosing information requests on its users from local and federal law enforcement. Also this week, Facebook opened a server near the Arctic Circle and is ditching sponsored ads, Twitter started testing how to give users more use of analytics, and Foursquare maps your life.
Xbox One Box Art has been revealed through social media, and it looks...almost exactly like the Xbox 360's.
It seems there are few social media networks more full of adults than Twitter, besides LinkedIn and perhaps BabyBoomerPeopleMeet.com, but it appears Facebook is fast becoming too long in the teeth for some teens - but that doesn't mean that they're deleting their profiles or becoming inactive.
The HTC First has hit a series of misfortunes, pointing toward an early death for the smartphone that has only been on the market for about a month.
Golf superstar Tiger Woods and Olympic skiing champion Lindsey Vonn have been the talk of the sports world since early in the year, when the two were rumored, and later confirmed, to be dating.
The hottest couple in pro sports was the talk of the town again as Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn visited the TPC Sawgrass course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Sunday to watch boyfriend Tiger Woods win his second-ever Players Championship.
Tesla Motors CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has parted ways with the pro-immigration reform political action committee founded by Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg.
It looks like gold superstar Tiger Woods is taking his relationship with Olympic gold skier Lindsey Vonn to the next level.
The Google Play Store just updated its content policies that govern the action of apps distributed through the service, and a seemingly small change could have big repercussions for Facebook.
A newborn baby boy from India was rescued by police authorities Tuesday from the hands of his traffickers after the mother reported the child missing.
A new update will allow Facebook Chat Heads on the iPhone and iPad.
