February 22, 2012
LinkedIn just became the second social media giant this month to signal plans for ads in mobile.
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February 19, 2012
- The next time you get caught hijacking your friend's Facebook, remember it could be worse. On Friday, British Student Glenn Mangham was sentenced to eight months in not-so-social jail, for hacking deep into Facebook's...
February 17, 2012
The FBI recently sent out a request to tech companies asking for proposals in the development of a social media application. The bureau is seeking input for a system that would alert it of matters dealing with terrorism, crime, and anything else pertaining to national security.
Although the FBI has said that it would only utilize the “publicly available” information that users provide, some...
February 10, 2012
In just one year from now, we’ll see social technologies disrupt e-commerce the same way they’ve already disrupted online gaming, music and news.
Commerce has always been social. Shopping in the real world is a form of social entertainment, and we turn to people we know for advice on products and services.
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By Christo Volschenk
The explosive growth of social media recruiters (eg. Facebook’s recruitment networking app BranchOut) and the impact they are making on the online recruitment landscape (described here by U.S. colleague Sharon Hill), spawned an interesting side-show for Germany’s recruitment community in the past week.It all started when...
February 3, 2012
While Facebook’s IPO has raised a lot of excitement in the tech space, it has also raised some questions. WebProNews has already reported on the impact of the IPO on users and marketers, but what about from a business standpoint?
Francis Gaskins, the President of IPODesktop....
Facebook took the big step earlier this week when it filed for its initial public offering. The news had been rumored for a while, and the social giant finally took the plunge on February 1st.
It’s clear that users have played a big role in building Facebook, but what does the IPO mean for them? According to Chris Treadaway, the founder of Polygraph Media as well as...
February 2, 2012
What are you giving your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day? Get suggestions from eBay experts today, February 2, during eBay’s Valentine Twitter Party. The 12-1PM PST hour will be hosted by our Fashion expert and will focus on gift suggestions for her. The 1-2PM PST hour will be hosted by our Electronics expert and will focus on gift recommendations for him. Join the chat by using the hashtag #eBayWithLove.
BONUS: Tell @eBay...
Salesforce, the enterprise cloud computing company, has released a new platform for helping small and medium-size businesses with customer service. The platform is called Desk.com and allows companies to deliver personal customer service through mobile and social capabilities.
As Alex Bard, the Vice President and General Manager of Desk.com explained to us, Salesforce talked to thousands of SMBs and found that...
February 1, 2012
The rumor, speculation and awkward Winklevii jokes can end (at least for now) as Facebook has officially filed for its public offering. Underwritten by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs amongst others, the internet's most popular site seeks to trade under the stock...