AOL announced on March 2008 the $850 million purchase of Bebo. At the time, Bebo was the third largest social networking site behind MySpace and Facebook in terms of page views and unique monthly visitors, both key metrics for online advertising

We have already seen social media used as a new wartime communication tool, but a new tactic being deployed by the United States government may be taking the practice to a new level. According to the Daily Beasts Eli Lake, Social Media the U.S. has been...

News Corporation (NWS) owns Myspace, the most-viewed website in the world. It also purchased Photobucket, a photo-sharing website.

Amex cardholders can buy products by sending a message laying one of the most ambitious attempts yet to build ecommerce into a social media site

After a story in the New York Times last week reported a iled attempt to drive a Tesla electric car from New York to Boston, the companys founder and CEO Elon Musk yesterday took to social media and TV to claim 1) the results were due to...

SAN FRANCISCO , Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Xaffo™ has migrated its cloud-based social media monitoring tool from Google Cloud to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and has rolled out updated features with the migration. Updated sections include...

Pope Benedict XVI has become the first pontiff to resign since the 15th century. The leader of the worlds more than 1 billion Roman Catholic worshippers cited health reasons behind his wish to step down, effective February 28.

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Microsoft (MSFT) announced a minority $240 million investment in Facebook in late October, valuing the company at an estimated $5 to $15 billion overall.

When Pope Benedict XVI steps down at the end of this month, he will leave an established social media presence and a cadre of insiders ready to take it to the next level. The next pope, when he is chosen, will be handed the fruits of a number of...

Marketing reporter Susan Krashinsky joins Hannah Sung to discuss the ad wins of the broadcast along with RIMs first-ever Super Bowl ad, which did not re well on social media.

Social media describes websites that allow users to share content,new york asian escorts media, etc. Common exaSocial Media ConceptSocialmples are the popular social networking sites like Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, etc. Social media also includes YouTube, Photobucket, Flickr, and other sites aimed at photo and video sharing. News aggregation and online reference sources, examples of which are Digg and Wikipedia, are also counted in the social media bucket. Micro-blogging sites such as twitter can also be included as social media.

Robert Scoble and I have been collaborating since July on Age of Context, a book about the convergence of five technology forces: mobile, social media, big data, location-based and sensors. This convergence is forming a perfect storm in which our...

Ah, the promise of technology! From the emergence of the spreadsheet to the era of social media, technology has continued to be that shiny object from which we cannot seem to remove our gaze.  So, has the promise been kept, or have we all been...

Yahoo! (YHOO) has been moves to enter the social media segment. Its Flickr photo-sharing website and 360 social networking site are examples of this.