This has to be the sweetest of times for Twitter co-founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey. Sunday March 21st marks the fourth anniversary of the social networking, information service that has taken the world by storm. They continue ...Read More
Social networking companies like Facebook and Twitter may be masters of the digital universe, but their future growth is imperiled by increasingly aggressive censorship overseas in authoritarian countries such as China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Google's recent clash with the Chinese ...Read More
A recently disclosed patent request suggests Apple may be working on a mobile social networking application that would presumably let iPhone users form ad-hoc groups based on their locations. Titled "Group Formation Using Anonymous Broadcast Information," Apple's request with the U.S. ...Read More
Apple patent applications are usually pretty dry, but it looks like a new one turned up by Patently Apple has a bit more user-focused meat to it -- it describes a location-based social networking app called "iGroups," which lets groups ...Read More
A new Apple patent is going around that offers up something called "iGroups" functionality -- it seems to be a kind of location-based social networking, including an ad-hoc currency functionality between a crowd of Apple devices. It's pretty interesting, though ...Read More
Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder who helped launch the social networking phenom and then the tour-de-force online organizing campaign for Barack Obama's presidential bid, on Thursday unveiled his latest endeavor: A website to connect individuals and organizations striving to help ...Read More
Based on a patent filing that was published by the USPTO today, Apple could soon enter the location-based social networking market. The patent, which was filed in September 2008, describes a scenario where a group of users with mobile devices ...Read More
AUSTIN, Tex. - There's not just one South by Southwest, but several. Music people who arrived on Tuesday and Wednesday overlapped with attendees of the film and 'interactive' (read: Internet startups) conferences, and to some degree the happenings at all ...Read More
There is something apt about a social networking website winning a popularity contest. According to industry data, Facebook overtook Google among US internet users last week, with more visits to its pages than to the search engine. It is a ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO - Social-networking star Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the United States for the first time last week, industry analysts showed.
Facebook's homepage finished the week ending March 13 as the most visited site in ...Read More
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