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Facebook Timeline, Google+ Hangouts: Which Will Own Your Life?

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+.
Google versus Facebook

Google+ vs. Facebook: The War is On

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.
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Windows 8 vs iOS 5: Comparing the Features

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.
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Facebook Launches the Subscribe Button

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.
A man standing near broken window

What are Flash Mobs?

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.
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FriendFinder to buy social commerce website

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.
U.S. Housing Market

Home Sales: 5 Tips for Prospective U.S. Home Sellers

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.
Demonstrators take part in a protest against the high cost of living and for social justice in Tel Aviv

Israeli protesters face moment of truth

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.
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Russia's Mail.ru Raises 2011 Growth Forecasts

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, who announced her pregnancy

Beyonce is Pregnant: She Wants a Boy

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.

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