Remember way back in February of 2010, when Google introduced a social media service called Google Buzz, and all the bloggers marveled that Google was so boldly taking on Facebook? Well, that didn’t work out so well. Now Google is really taking on Facebook, and not just in a half-hearted kind of way. Witness the [...]
Power Balance™, an innovator in the field of Performance Technology™ products, is mobilizing its impressive Facebook roster with a social commerce campaign around the coordinated launch of Power Balance NBA® licensed bands, using Moontoast’s Distributed Store platform. As the NBA® playoffs heat up, fans will be able to purchase Power Balance™ licensed wristbands directly from [...]
Facebook is in talks to hire Barack Obama’s former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. Gibbs, once one of the president’s closes aides, is thought to be being considered to steer the social networking giant through a flotation on the stock market planned for early next year. He would likely be offered a senior communications [...]
Google will launch its own social network in May, it has been claimed. The search engine giant will unveil Google Circles at its Google I/O conference in San Francisco, according to technology blog The Next Web. It is thought the network will allow users to selectively share content with people who are members of different [...]
Google Inc. is turning to its roots as a Web startup to confront threats from a new generation of Internet companies, led by Facebook Inc. Google, owner of the world’s most popular search engine, said yesterday that co-founder Larry Page will take over as chief executive officer as Eric Schmidt becomes executive chairman after a [...]
All hail the Web’s Caesar. All hail the power of the rumor. Facebook is closing down. The Roman Emperor of social networking is tired of it all. He is heading for pastures new. Oh, and you might never be able to get your photos (or your pokes) back. Such was the story printed by the [...]
Church of England bishop suspended over royal wedding comments A Church of England bishop has been suspended indefinitely following his disparaging remarks about the royal wedding. Pete Broadbent, a suffragan bishop in Willesden, wrote a series of posts on Facebook, where he said the marriage of Kate Middleton and Prince William would last seven years [...]
As of yesterday, social network giant Facebook decided to take pity on Myspace by ‘mashing’ up with them. In fact this is not a mashup more of a lending hand from Facebook to Myspace. Is this just Facebooks way of exposing Myspace’s desperate attempts of regaining and retaining former users? In the jungle that is [...]
Late last night we reported that MySpace and Facebook were going to make a special announcement. The “big” event today was hosted by MySpace CEO Mike Jones and Facebook VP Dan Rose. According to TechCrunch, MySpace was embarrassed that Facebook didn’t send anyone more senior. Once the event was over, we realized why they didn’t. [...]
Facebook Deals allows businesses to offer promotions to users of Places tool, Groups added and login simplified Facebook today revealed a series of improvements to its service on mobile devices in a move that lays the foundations for new revenue streams from retail stores, venues and small businesses. Mobile is seen as a powerful platform [...]
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