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Facebook reportedly offered almost $3 billion cash for Snapchat Inc., a deal which its CEO has passed up on. The report simultaneously shows what Facebook is willing to do to reach a younger audience, and how confident the up and coming social media company is in its future.
Restrictions on social media are reportedly set to take place during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, however, an Olympics spokesperson have clarified such statements.
Twitter is expected to launch its first entry into the public market on Thursday.
As Twitter is headed swiftly towards it IPO, possible investors face questions about the platform's future, as well as its possible mainstream appeal and usage. Before putting money into Twitter, basically the question is, "What is it really good for?" Well one answer is pretty clear. According to a new Pew Research Center report, over half of Twitter users are using it as a news source.
Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo remains at the center of trade rumors heading into the 2013-14 NBA season. Rondo has been put in several trade scenarios, but this time, speculations have him going to the Indiana Pacers in exchange for Danny Granger.
Facebook is changing how public teenagers' postings can be, lifting the 17 and under restriction on public posts.
Direct messages have always been a prohibitively confusing aspect of Twitter for many new users or those who are not tech savvy.
Despite privacy concerns, Google is moving forward with a plan to bring Google Plus users' endorsements into its advertising - including displaying their names and profile pictures. Google is calling the ad scheme, "shared endorsements."
Twitter Inc., the microblogging social media company, is about to go public in its IPO. As part of the process of opening itself to public investors, Twitter's internal figures have been released to the public.
They say the new watercooler is in the cloud, as live TV and social media find each other mutually beneficial partners for fostering consumer interest in both. And with Twitter dominating online conversations since this concept grew up out of fertile second-screen soil, other social media companies are looking for ways to cut in on some of the social TV action.
"I cross-referenced his YouTube profile through his MySpace..." - Kyle Broflovski. The kids of South Park had it right six years ago, using social media to track down terrorists. Three years later, in 2010, the National Security Agency began creating sophisticated graphs identifying the social connections of some Americans.
Facebook friends of Derek Medina were greeted with a gruesome photo on their news feed last Thursday. Moments after shooting her wife dead, the South Florida man posted a photo of her bleeding body on the social networking site.
Facebook has certainly shown an interest, if not in becoming an RSS reader as it was previously rumored to be working on, then becoming a new, more uniquely Facebook-kind of news source for its users. Finally revealing some details on how it ranks items in the News Feed Tuesday, the social media giant began on Wednesday testing "Trending Topics" on a small portion of its vast network.
On Monday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project released another survey tracking the use of social networking sites by adults in the United States, a statistic that the group has been following since at least 2005. In it, Pew reports, among other things, that Hispanics use social media at a rate of 80 percent, as opposed to 72 percent overall.
Pope Francis ousts President Barack Obama.
