Despite efforts to place a ban on pro-anorexia motivational photos on social media websites like Pinterest and Tumblr, the debate continues on as more thinspiration pictures emerge online at Instagram under the hash tag thinspo.
Facebook’s $1 billion deal to acquire Instagram may have resulted in pushing the initial public offering price for the No. 1 social media network even higher.
Draw Something wouldn't be a proper Zynga property if it didn't optimize the viral nature of the game through social network sharing features. Thanks to a recent update, Draw Something has added that sharing feature in addition to chat and photo-capturing capabilities.
Postano -- a social media content aggregation and organzation tool -- has taken a step further in providing the an all-inclusive social networking suite for businesses and individuals: Postano now works with Pinterest.
Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. For those who don't want to use Instagram anymore, we've found the 5 best alternatives to Instagram that will allow you to edit and share your photos while maintaining your privacy.
Twitter may be known as one of the most prominent social media tools to hit the web. However, the social networking service may be useful for more than keeping in touch with friends and sharing information.
Although they may not be the most dominant social media networks, Pinterest and Google Plus can drive a significant amount of traffic to websites. But which of the two drives more referral traffic?
Google introduced its futuristic eyeglasses on Wednesday, called Project Glass. Google's wearable solution mixes communication technology with real world elements, but these high-tech glasses don't come without a fair share of flaws.
On Monday, the Bhutanese government led a session in the UN called Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm, that highlighted the world's happiest countries and discussed how to put happiness on the global agenda.
The developers of a controversial app have pulled their creation, Girls Around Me designed to find and peruse information about women nearby based on their location, from the Apple App Store after a heated privacy debate.
As the digital age reaches the dormant stage of social adaptation, having left its mark on the daily process of culture at large, can we add viralism or another digitally referential marker to our collective art discourse? Moreover, is viral a relevant -- let alone acceptable -- aesthetic stance?
Companies looking for new employees continually look to social networks like Facebook to learn more about their job candidates. But since many users have made their profiles private, some employers now require applicants to submit their login information. But is this an invasion of privacy?
Whether it's choosing the right present, selecting the proper size or style, or digging up a current mailing address, gift giving can be difficult.
Two US senators have called on the federal agencies to investigate whether employers are violating federal law by requesting Facebook passwords from interviewees. Senators Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, and Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, have asked the Department of Justice and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to commence investigations.
International Business Machines launched on Tuesday three services to help companies sift and understand so-called big data, hoping to get some of the $120 billion or more that businesses are expected to invest in data analytics by 2015.
While most high-end smartphones feature 5-megapixel or 8-megapixel cameras, Nokia’s new 808 PureView, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012, packs a whopping 41-megapixel camera. With its PureView imaging technology, Nokia aims to raise the bar in smartphone photography far beyond what is currently considered a good camera phone.
In the wake of recent success, Pinterest is revamping the design of its users' profile pages. The new profile page is a dramatic change from previous iterations.
Path, one of the fastest growing social media platforms, snagged another major boost in credibility this week: Britney Spears has joined the network. The world-famous pop star tweeted out to her fans about her new Path account on Monday.
LobbyFriend re-creates the hotel/travel experience with its temporary social network.
Instagram – Apple’s App of Year 2011 – has hit 27 million registered users bar, despite being available only on iOS platform. However, Intagram is hitting Google Play Store (formally known as Android Market) very soon. What makes Instagram so popular?
Emboldened by their victory in quashing online piracy legislation, U.S. Internet companies are gearing up for a battle over whether consumers should be able to restrict efforts to gather personal data.
Japan's Konami Corp (9766.T) and two other game makers have joined Zynga's new gaming network, potentially drawing players to the fledgling service that Zynga hopes will reduce its dependence on Facebook.
