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Twitter used to be cool, but the media has screwed it up, the actor and angel investor Ashton Kutcher says.
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Twitter used to be cool, but the media has screwed it up, the actor and angel investor Ashton Kutcher says.
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Teen use of Twitter has grown significantly, a new report into social media networks shows, while Facebook is losing market share to its quick-messaging rival.
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Sometimes when you do things—like make a workout video—in your own home, everyone gets a little too comfortable.
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The board of Yahoo agreed on Sunday to buy the popular blogging service Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash, a signal of how the company plans to reposition, the NYT reports.
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There are certain things no one tells you when you start planning a wedding. No one warns you how quickly Pinterest and other image-sharing sites stocked with beautiful ideas can turn your special day into a money pit, the CSM reports.
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After the Facebook IPO, VCs began to look beyond social networking companies for more sustainable investments--namely enterprise software.
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Airlines bucking the lower trend this morning: Delta, United Continental, US Airways, and Republic Airways rise three to four percent.
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You weren't seriously going to tweet your mother for Mother's Day, were you? Not even Twitter wants you to do that.
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Sina Corp, China's largest Internet portal and media website, said Alibaba Group bought an 18 percent stake in its microblogging service Weibo for $586 million.
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Technological advances can "empower some evil people," Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told CNBC. But digital mistakes will make it "possible to track them down."
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There's a thriving black market around the sale of Twitter followers, retweets and favorites. But buyer beware.
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In the latest sign that Twitter's advertising business is coming of age, it inked its first multi-year upfront ad commitment with ad giant Publicis' Starcom Media Vest.
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Though the next 5 billion people who connect to the Internet will experience a better quality of life, technological advances can also "empower some evil people," Google's Eric Schmidt told CNBC.
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A fake press release Monday announced that Chinese search company Baidu had offered to acquire social-gaming company Zynga.
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As the FBI searches for the Boston bombing suspects, there's a new question about the power of social media: Does it pose a risk in capturing the suspects who are at large?
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After months of reports and speculation, Twitter finally launched its music discovery app, Twitter Music, on Thursday.
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Advertisers on Twitter can now target tweets based on keywords in them, the social media company announced on Wednesday.
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About 61 percent of small employers don't see any return on investment on their social-media activities, according to a survey from Manta, a social network for small businesses.
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Just four days after Facebook Home became available for certain Android devices, the company is rolling it out across the world and adding features to its Apple's iOS app.
