Twitter has reportedly bought TweetDeck for an estimated $40 million.
London-based TweetDeck has enjoyed huge global success with its Twitter software, first for desktop computers and later for a variety of mobile devices.
TweetDeck appeals to hardcore tweeters who spend lots of their time on the social network. It makes it easy to …
A lot of people love their cars. But would you friend yours?
Most of today’s cars are as much computer-on-wheels as they are transportation. Toyota and Salesforce.com have decided that if cars are going to be smart, they should be smart enough to talk to us.
Wait, though: not like KITT in Knight Rider. Not that sort of …
Twitter is coming to London, despite the super-injunction row it got pulled into last week.
The company’s deal-maker Tony Wang has already moved across the Atlantic with his family, and is starting work on building a new London-based team to look after Twitter’s business in the U.K. and Europe.
The injunction row, centered on a …
The U.K. media is atwitter this weekend over a controversy about press gag-orders known as “super-injunctions” that have recently been disobeyed on Twitter. It’s an unlikely combination of celebrities, sex, social media, and press freedoms that has exploded into a scandal that led Twitter this week to break its U.K. traffic record …
Twitter’s just announced changes to the way third party clients have to connect users to the service, and has upset a few apple carts along the way.
In an official announcement headlined Mission: Permission, Twitter’s Jodi Olsen wrote:
“Beginning today, we’re giving you more control over what information you share with third-party
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Wouldn’t it be grand if every time you opened a beer, Facebook automatically created an event and invited all your friends over? I know that every time I sit down to enjoy a series of smooth draws from a delicious craft IPA after a long day of work, I’m thinking, “Hey, I wish everyone I knew on Facebook could be here to watch me drink …
In today’s polarized political climate, it sometimes seems the focus is more on parties and candidates rather than the issues.
But YouTube’s come up with a solution for this. And it’s a new way to debate politics that doesn’t involve knowing someone’s party affiliation (shocking!).
Rather, a YouTube “Town Hall” has …
The trouble with being the latest big thing on the internet is that everyone wants a piece of your success. Including scammers.
As we reported yesterday, scams are appearing on Facebook. And because Facebook is so huge, people are falling for them.
It isn’t entirely Facebook’s fault, either. There’s an old computer helpdesk …
Sure, Facebook’s a profit-driving, user-gaining, Google-bashing powerhouse, but it’s got a softer side, too.
How so, you ask?
It’s showing support for social good by launching a revamped resource center to help non-profits effectively use the site to their benefit, reports Mashable. Aw, shucks, how sweet!
And the site’s …
You may not like someone on Facebook. You may practically despise someone on Facebook. Just don’t fall for a new scam that claims to offer you a chance to vent by giving someone a very public thumbs-down.
If you see a message offering to enable a “Dislike” button, beware: security firm Sophos claims the “fast-spreading scam …
I refuse to use the term “Winklevii” (except that I just used it), so let’s proceed. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are those twins that are suing Mark Zuckerberg amidst claims that Zuckerberg stole their idea for Facebook.
The two brothers have already gotten a sizable multi-million-dollar settlement from the whole Facebook ordeal, but …
Microsoft’s search site Bing just got a whole lot more social with the addition of a bunch of new Facebooky features so you can “bring the Friend Effect to search” (Bing’s phrase, not mine).
What’s the Friend Effect? According to Bing, it’s the way that “90 per cent of people seek advice from family and friends as part of the decision
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