If you’re sad about being alone this Valentine’s Day, Twitter may make you feel less lonely. Singles are taking to social media to grumble about their loveless holiday. Studies conducted pre-Valentine’s Day show that women are posting more positive remarks than men, but the amount of bitter tweets clogging the feed seems to be about the same.
Facebook may have created a buzz with its public offering, but professionals in the Internet sphere shouldn’t forget about LinkedIn. Referred to as the “professional network,” a new study from Bullhorn Reach shows that 48 percent of job recruiters are using LinkedIn exclusively. Although 21 percent are present on all three major social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), only one percent are using the other two social media sites exclusively.
Pinterest--the new social network based off of photo-sharing--recently became one of the top five social networks on the Internet. As it continues to close in on the type of traffic that brands such as Twitter and Facebook have, Pinterest is becoming popular among celebrities and large companies. With that in mind, we've created a list of the most important celebrities, brands and other pinners on Pinterest that you must follow:
Microsoft India's retail website was down on Monday after an apparent hack, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting doctored screenshots that seemed to be of partially obscured customers' usernames and passwords.
Millions of Internet users in Iran have been denied access to popular social networking sites, including Facebook, and email services like Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail for the past one week, an Iranian news agency has reported.
Turn the clock back 13 years to 1999. Seek out the Chief Information Officer of every large business. What was the big worry? Y2K.
I get to the bottom of what file sharing means for the actual market of intellectual property.
Howard Davies-Carr in 2007 shot a 56 second video of his two sons and uploaded it on YouTube to share it with a family friend.
Until now, the best way to install Siri on iOS devices other than the iPhone 4S has been Spire. Thanks to a Vietnamese dev team, users now can install if not Siri, but an apparently much more advanced alternative, Sara, in all iOS devices.
Kim Jong-un, North Korea's supreme leader, has been assassinated in Beijing, according to unsubstantiated rumors that spread from Chinese social media website Weibo. The rumors are swarming through Twitter, and have become the basis for some dark humor.
Dad shoots laptop has become a huge search term on Friday, after a YouTube video started going viral because a man who identifies himself as Tommy Jordan emptied his handgun into a laptop that allegedly belongs to his daughter, Hannah.
The Grammys 2012 Award ceremony may not start until Sunday, but the party begins on Friday with parties, news events and updates that can all be live streamed through Facebook's GRAMMY Live app.
That right there is your laptop. This right here is my .45.
Now that perennial slugfest rivals Oracle and SAP have snapped up more human-resources software providers for the cloud, what’s left?
A Tennessee couple who defriended a woman on Facebook were murdered in their home by the jilted woman's father and another man, police said on Thursday.
Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group plans to take its Hong Kong-listed unit private, two sources familiar with the matter said, and is working with Yahoo on an asset-swap deal that may result in Yahoo owning a direct stake in one of Alibaba Group's operating businesses.
A privacy debate surrounding fledgling social network Path went viral this week, triggering discussions on blogs and on Twitter about how far social networks can go in using members' private data.
Instagram's co-founder Mike Krieger received a thoughtful and appropriate gift from his girlfriend, Kaitlyn Trigger. She secretly launched a Valentine's Day themed app called Lovestagram, which makes interactive Valentine's Day cards using the Instagram API.
CNN commentator Roland Martin has agreed to meet with GLAAD following his suspension Wednesday for tweets during the Super Bowl that the group and others denounced as homophobic.
Bruins goaltender and reigning Conn Smythe Winner Tim Thomas refused to speak with reporters today after making controversial remarks on his Facebook page on Wednesday.
Oracle Corp agreed to buy Taleo Corp, a maker of Web-based software for recruiting employees, for about $1.9 billion, as technology giants battle for the top spot in the fast-growing cloud computing market.
News that Greece had reached a deal to secure a bailout was greeted with caution on Wall Street on Thursday, with investors taking a wait-and-see approach in a market that has become extended after weeks of gains.
