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Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.
Salesforce.com is going the way of Facebook and Twitter with a reportedly secure private social networking application called Chatter that companies are supposed to use internally so their people can “collaborate” in real-time, but potentially the techzoid equivalent of the old-fashioned water cooler. In a statement trying to explain Chatter’s aetiology, CEO Marc Benioff said, “Why do I know ...
FiLife.com , one of the fastest growing personal finance sites and a joint venture of Dow Jones and IAC , today introduced a question and answer platform and two-way API that allows users to tap into the expertise of seasoned financial advisors and the broader personal finance community of individuals who face similar challenges with their 401Ks, credit cards, mortgages and other financial issues.
San Diego-based Rippol, a new startup looking to help people discovery and find online videos, is launching today at the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. The new site uses social networking features, including links to Facebook and Twitter, to help users find and discover video based on information from friends and family. Rippol said its algorithm--which is it billing the ...
Service people stationed in other countries soon will receive packages from Gahanna, thanks to local people who formed a group on Facebook.
Starting this weekend and in the days ahead, Microsoft will offer free Xbox Live Gold services to Silver members on the weekends, giving them a chance to try out recently-launched features. New social networking features like Twitter and Facebook just launched on Xbox Live on November 17, and Silver members will be able to try them in addition to the online multiplayer normally only available to ...
There is untapped business potential in using social networks. The consumer world has enthusiastically adopted such tools as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter but the uptake within organisations has been sluggish.
L.A. County sheriff's detectives are investigating Friday's beating of a 12-year-old as possibly being tied to a message targeting redheads. Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives are investigating an assault on a 12-year-old middle school boy in Calabasas who may have been targeted after a Facebook group urged students to beat up redheads, a sheriff's official said Saturday.
NASHUA, N.H.----Ektron Inc., a market leader in enterprise Web content management and social software, today announced the launch of a social media strategy practice. Ektron’s unique combination of Web content management, social software and strategy will offer its customers a complete social solution, both internally for enterprises and externally for communities.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc., the social-networking company valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, is generating sales of more than $4 million a year.
The report, titled "No, Your Social Networking 'Friend' Isn't Really in Trouble Overseas," describes the scam.
Editor's note: This is the third article in a series focusing on the job-search and application process. The days of simply answering a help wanted ad in the newspaper with a faceless resume to find a new job are long gone. And e-mailing your information to a Web site isn't enough anymore, either.
Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are all easy and instant ways to keep in touch, but they've all been banned in the classroom.
On Nov. 11, the executive officers for the next calendar year were elected. Kyle Herman was elected as president of WCSA, and Sharif Kronemer was elected as vice president. The pair ran against Spencer Meads and Tim Carney.
The News Corp.-owned social networking site is set to roll out a new, highly intrusive homepage takeover ad for The Twilight Saga: New Moon
On a planet of a billion watching eyes, via Facebook and other social-networking services, there is no hiding.
Mplayit , the new online destination that seeks to transform the mobile content discovery experience, today unveiled its revolutionary "playable" app store on Facebook. The social networking features will help to build mobile app discovery among consumers in a way that can potentially challenge the App Store.
The NBC2 Investigators find an illegal immigrant wanted for killing a Naples mother of two can be found smiling on a social networking site.
Informational pages launching on Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and Flicker
You know what to get your book-loving dad and social-networking sister, but what about that seriously geeky pal? PC World’s found gifts even geeks who have everything would like.