Spotify Hires Another Former Googler To Head Asian Expansion

Setting its sights beyond the west after a successful US launch and the recent unveiling of its Facebook Open Graph integration, subscription music service Spotify has hired former Google...

Spotify Hides Your Musical Taste From Facebook Friends With Private Listening Mode

Spotify has rolled out an update to its app that will allow users to “hide” their listening behaviors from auto-publishing to Facebook. Since launching its integration with Facebook last week, users of the service have...

Facebook TV Show Stars You & Your Friends

Warner Bros. will launch an experimental live-action show next month that will run exclusively on Facebook and incorporate information from your profile to put you and your friends into select scenes. The show, called...

Facebook Timeline Will Be Huge for Brands

Zeny Huang is an Emerging Media Strategist at JWT New York where she helps brands connect with fans in innovative and meaningful ways using social media. You can follow her on Twitter @Zenidala. When...

PayPal & eBay Get Friendly With Facebook

Auction giant eBay and Facebook are quietly forging stronger ties with a secret joint partnership and the addition of Facebook exec Katie Mitic to eBay’s board of directors. Mitic,...

Facebook Users Beware: Facebook’s New Feature Could Embarrass You

If you didn’t watch Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook announcements last week — and of course the vast majority of Facebook users did not — you may be in for a surprise. Aside from the dramatically...

How Can Share Your Google+ Circles With Others

Google has rolled out a new feature for Google+ that lets users share the circles they’ve curated with their friends. “Starting today, you can actually share your favorite circles with others,” Google+ engineer Owen...

Google+ Traffic Jumps 13-Fold After Opening to the Public

Opening up Google+ to the masses brought in a huge influx of new visits last week, finds Hitwise. The researcher estimates the site received about 15 million U.S. visits for the week ending Sept....

Facebook Video Chat vs Google Hangouts

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Facebook to Launch iPad App at Apple’s iPhone 5 Event

Facebook will launch its long-awaited iPad app at Apple’s iPhone 5 launch event on Oct. 4, In addition to the iPad app, Facebook is also expected to release a revamped version of its iPhone...

10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google

“Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” So began the “letter from the founders” penned by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the company’s securities registration form in 2004. Despite ever-increasing...

Happy Birthday Google Making Sense of the Web for 13 Years

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Facebook’s New Features Might Not Be as Private as You Think

Apparently, Facebook has a lot of work to do on its privacy controls. In some cases, the new “frictionless sharing” features of Facebook can make it so that even when you’re logged out of Facebook, your browser is still...

Google Improves iOS App for Google+

Google is on a roll, not sitting idly by while Facebook has its moment in the media spotlight. After opening its Google+ social network to the public — gaining an additional 10 million users in its first two days —...

Facebook Changes in a Nutshell

Facebook’s profound changesoutlined last week, are leaving many users scrambling to catch up. But, as the comic above points out, we’ve been through this before. Whatever the outcry this time, chances are things will...

Turn Your Facebook Profile into a Mini Blog

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Google +1 Button Now Shares Directly to Google+

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Facebook Keynote at f8 Pits Zuckerberg vs. Zuckerberg [VIDEO]

Will the real Mark Zuckerberg please stand up? Wait a minute — that’s Saturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg standing in for the Facebook CEO at the f8 keynote, all in good fun. Our favorite...

Integrate Google+ Into Your WordPress Site

This month’s hot topic has been, without a doubt, Google+. Whether the new social service from the world’s largest search company will be a “Facebook killer” remains to be seen, but one thing’s for certain: This is...

Facebook Changes Again Everything You Need To Know

As we predicted, Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at the f8 conference in San Francisco Thursday introduced some of the most profound changes seen on Facebook since its inception. So...

NASA: 6.5-Ton Satellite Falling to Earth Friday or Saturday

NASA‘s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is headed towards Earth. But don’t fear, it’s still unlikely anyone will be hit. The space agency now says the U.S. is back as a possible “landing site” for the satellite....

Google+ Updates via SMS

How to enable?It is simple.Just go to your Google+ Settings page.In the Set delivery preferences Click on Add phone number.In The country,Select India.Input your mobile number and click Send verification code. Once you...

Google+ Now Lets You Search for People & Topics

One of the weak points of Google+ so far has been, ironically enough, its search. Searches for specific people often went nowhere, and forget about searching topics. On Tuesday, however, Google introduced expanded search...

Klout Adds Google+ To Its Social Scores

The third social network icon on your Klout dashboard is now Google+, just behind the Twitter and Facebook buttons. Latching onto news Tuesday that anyone can sign up for Google+, Klout CEO Joe Fernandez revealed the...

Not Google+: The First Antisocial Network [PARODY VIDEO]

Do you feel like there’s simply too many social networks you have to manage? You aren’t alone. On the heels of Google opening Google+ to the public, the people over at College Humor decided to create their own social...

Google+ vs. Facebook: The Gloves Are Off

What a day. In the space of a few short hours, Google+ wrenched open the floodgates, allowing anyone to sign up for the fledgling social network — while Facebook retooled its newsfeed so you won’t miss any of your...

Google Plus : The Complete Guide

Already using Google+? Follow Gplus forum for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates.   Google+: It’s the hot social network on the block....

Google+ Now Open to Everyone

After being invite-only for nearly three months, Google+ is opening up to everyone. Writing on its official company blog about the 99 improvements that have been made to the product since launching, Google’s Vic Gundotra...

Google wallet review

How It Works:Back in May, Google announced their mission to kill your wallet. Tying into the near field communication (NFC) system built into select Android handsets, Google Wallet allows your phone to act as your ...

Google Wallet Likely Launching Today

Last week, Google posted an awesome teaser video for Google Wallet featuring George Costanza. The implication: Google Wallet would finally be launching soon. Now we think we know when: tomorrow. As you can see in the...

Facebook To Launch Read, Listened, Watched, And Want Buttons

The cat is out of the bag that Facebook is going to launch something big at its developer conference f8 this week. We’ve heard about the social music services that could be debuting in a few days, but as the New York...

Facebook’s Spartans Ready For Battle, But War Won’t Come At f8

Facebook’s f8 is quickly approaching — by all accounts, it’s going to be massive. Ten days ago, I laid out some of what we were hearing would be coming. Now it’s time for one important...

Google Plus privacy tips

Google Plus offers unmatched privacy settings in the arena of social networks with a super user-friendly interface and concept. Here are some tips that will help you protect your privacy (a common issue in Facebook)...

Facebook updates status box, inspired by g+

In another upgrade to win over its only standing rival (Google+), Facebook has updated its ‘status updates’ box with new features, or should I say, G+ features. Let me introduce you to the 3 major upgrades that status...

Is Facebook Copying Google+ And Twitter?

Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering at Facebook, spoke with Jason Kincaid at this morning’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference. The topic of the conversation focused on many of...

ITA-Powered Google Travel Launches; Kayak Says Its Flight Search Is ‘Superior’

We heard a few months ago that Google is planning to launch an ITA integrated-flight search product. For background, the DOJ finally approved Google’s $700 million acquisition of airfare software company ITA in April,...