The hottest social networks seem quite busy these days -- providing a lot for millions of users around the world to digest. Just this week, Google+, Google's new social network, opened to the general public for sign-up and while making several site changes. Now, Facebook is launching a major design overhaul new features -- some similar to those introduced recently by Google+.
The war is officially on: Google+ vs. Facebook, in the battle to become the biggest or best global social network. After rolling out a three-month test phase with limited openings, Google+ is now open to the general public for sign-up and use.
Facebook is looking to hire a big-name executive to cultivate relationships and strike deals with the film and music industries to bolster its media offerings.
Between Microsoft announcing Windows 8 and Apple ready to release iOS 5 any week now, the mobile space is heating up. Find out what differentiates these two platforms from one another before their release dates.
It was supposed to be a purely offensive and tactical move on the part of President Barack Obama and his campaign, but it has turned into quite the mockery-inducing blunder.
Google couldn't buy Flipboard, so it decided to one-up the company with a social news reader of its own called Propeller. Sources call it mind-blowing good.
OpenFeint founder Jason Citron will leave his own company, and will be replaced by head of Gree International Naoki Aoyagi.
Facebook already allows users to “like” public fan pages in order to receive updates in their News Feed, but starting today, Facebook will allow users to subscribe to one another's profiles.
Social media and politics collided at a small South Carolina college on Tuesday evening as students censured their student body president over his Twitter postings bashing women, gays and African-Americans.
The launch of the new collaborative line between Italian designer, Missoni and Target has resulted in the crash of the Web site of the mega-retailer on Tuesday.
Nielsen survey shows that Americans spend most of their social networking time on Facebook.
Starting on Wednesday, The Climate Reality Project will broadcast a new 24-hour global multimedia presentation on the link between global warming and extreme weather events.
Flash mobs: from the Haka Mob to the Arab Spring, using social media to stage large events is a 21st century phenomenon that is not going anywhere. This trend is especially true in the United States, where recent flash mobs in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa have turned violence and angry.
FriendFinder Networks Inc, the publisher of adult magazine Penthouse, said it will buy social commerce website JigoCity for up to $65 million in stock and warrants, to tap into fast-growing social networking markets like China and Asia-Pacific.
Without qualification or conditions, amid a tepid U.S. economic recovery, the U.S. housing market remains a buyer's market. That said, are there ways home sellers can better-position their home for a sale amid such intense competition? Indeed there are, and here are five.
Chaz Bono has made it clear that Dancing With the Stars is a dance show, where, like the other contestants, he intends to dance.
Israel's social protest movement faces its moment of truth on Saturday when the turnout for a March of a Million demonstration in Tel Aviv will show whether a popular push for reform can be sustained, a leading organiser said.
The addition of Chaz Bono in the Season 13 cast of Dancing With the Stars has started a flood of negative reactions in social networks.
Russian internet investment group Mail.ru raised its full-year revenue growth forecast to 50 percent from 40 percent on Wednesday after sales and profit rose at its social network, online gaming and e-mail activities in the first half.
Beyonce and rap star and now-husband Jay-Z are expecting their first baby. Beyonce at the MTV VMAs announced that she is pregnant.
After a few months a star will be born. Beyonce is pregnant. This time, it's confirmed.
Now that it is confirmed that Beyonce is pregnant the question is, if the baby would be a boy or a girl. Fans have gone gaga over this on social networks, but the answer is not known. However, Beyonce has said she wants a boy.