SOCIAL NETWORKS

The question on everyone's mind is this: Why would a hot Internet company with an empire of music and culture blogs want to invest its resources in print? Tyler Goldman, Buzzmedia's CEO, said Spin is much more than a print publication.

Five months after its unveiling in early February, Apple is finally ready to release its next-gen operating system for the Mac. On Monday, the company released the golden master of OS 10.8 Mountain Lion to developers so they can begin submitting their Mountain Lion apps before the platform launches on the Mac App Store later this month for $19.99.

Russia isn't the first place that comes to mind when thinking of free speech, but that's exactly where the second World Media Summit was held. Attendees including BBC and CNN heard about a free press from Vladimir Putin, and about world harmony from the North Koreans.

When its partnership with Google for news search expired July 1, social networking site Twitter did not have any counter plan to pull out the latest tweets for real-time news it is hugely popular for. To revive its search results and improve its search functionality for latest tweets on breaking news, Twitter announced enhancements to the search function on its interface July 6.

Slowly but surely, Apple's operating systems are converging, but bonding these two separate systems together would be impossible without iCloud. On Monday, Apple introduced two new additions to the iCloud Beta portal for iOS 6 developers, including the Notes and Reminders apps, before it releases Mountain Lion this month and iOS 6 this fall.

Social Media Day is being celebrated around the world today on Twitter, Facebook and at meetups around the world.

"You guys really suck at journalism," wrote an angry follower of the CNN Breaking News Twitter feed.

Despite the clamor around Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, the real king of the social networking sector is International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), a new survey by IDC found.

At the 2012 Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Apple announced that the next version of its OS X operating system for Macs, dubbed Mountain Lion, will be released in July. The company did not give out a specific date and time.

We're just a few hours away from the start of the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, which is expected to be one of the biggest Apple events of the year. Hours later, the company learned even more new specs, this time about Apple's thinnest laptop, the MacBook Air.

Apple is expected to unveil a ton of new products next week at the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, but on Friday, Gadget Lab tweeted a picture from Wired's Roberto Baldwin of a banner put up in Moscone West, one of the WWDC event locations, which showcased iOS 6: The world's most advanced mobile operating system.

We're just four days away from the start of the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, which is expected to be one of the biggest Apple events of the year. A new report says that Apple will introduce as many as 14 new Mac models at WWDC, including desktop computers (iMac and Mac Pro) and laptops (MacBook Pro and MacBook Air), among other products.

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Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly being sued by his own investors. The most recent lawsuit claims that the Facebook co-founder sold more than $1 billion worth of the social networks stock just before prices started tumbling.

After its successful IPO on Friday, Facebook was looking forward to its second day of trading, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg won't be too pleased to learn that his company took a big tumble on the stock exchange on Monday. Facebook shares (listed as FB on the Nasdaq) fell from $38.27 to $34.03 apiece, a drop-off of about 11 percent.

In the era of emerging social media platforms, it may seem as if all forms of virtual communication have been covered. With Facebook and Twitter spearheading the social media scene, cyber networking offshoots have formed to cater to specific needs such as Pinterest and LinkedIn. Now it seems that Microsoft is looking to develop the social media landscape even further with its latest creation called So.cl.

When you walk into a clothing store, how can you tell which items are actually popular with previous or would-be customers? Brazilian fashion retailer C&A has the answer: Clothes hangers that leverage the 900 million-plus users on Facebook to show who likes a particular item.

Well, THAT just happened. The world's most dominant social network, touting some 900 million worldwide users, made its Wall Street debut from home Friday, as Mark Zuckerberg and co. opted to celebrate the beginning of a more open and connected Facebook from the company's headquarter's in Menlo Park, Calif.

Facebook, the world's biggest social network with 900 million-plus users, is finally ready to make its Wall Street debut on Friday, May 18, 2012. Facebook is clearly dominant in its industry, but buying stock so quickly might be unwise. Here are five reasons why you shouldn't go buy Facebook stock right away.

Twitter, the mobile messaging giant, said it had acquired RestEngine, a social marketing company specializing in emails, mainly to obtain its developers.

Bing, the third most popular search engine in America, has been drastically redesigned. Even more shocking than the site's fresh new look is the new social media integration.