SOCIAL NETWORKS

in a survey, more kids aged 16-22 said they would rather have Facebook than be able to smell.

Harold Camping, who prematurely sold the idea of a doomsday to gullible millions, is refusing to fade away from news. He is still a hot search topic on the Internet and is still routinely discussed in social networks even after he rolled in the mud and bandied out the most incongruous explanations for his failed May 21st Doomsday prediction

Twitter's acquisition of third party client TweetDeck for $40 million has caught the attention of social network users because it is good news for Tweeters but not for TweetDeck users though both TweetDeck founder and Twitter CEO have called the acquisition an add-on for Twitter power users.

Windows details its web-based app store; similar to the one introduced by Google in February.

Social networking is coming to your next automobile thanks to Toyota.

Analysts say if Facebook has its IPO, before the social networking market corrects itself, it could easily be the biggest ever.

The service determines a social networker's worth by tracking social media activity and measuring how much interest it generates amongs friends and colleagues.

In just the first few hours of trading, LinkedIn's stock has skyrocketed in its debut initial public offering on Thursday due to high demand.

LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner promises his company's high IPO doesn't mean another tech bubble is on the horizon.

A new study from Northwestern found more black college students are into Twitter than whites because of a stronger interest in celebrity and entertainment news.

Facebook and other social network giants are opposing a new Californian bill, which requires all social network websites to make users' information private by default. A spokesman claims that the bill would be a big threat to their businesses.

The surging rebellions through internet urging to overthrow the political coup in the middle east has probably motivated the Thai justice ministry to patrol cyberspace in search of anybody violating the kingdom’s strict lese majeste rules, an offence punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

Wedbush Securities said the Digital Hollywood surveyed respondents are bullish on Facebook advertising growth next year (2012) with median response of up 35 percent while average was up 63 percent.

Apple is the number one brand in the world according to a report; Facebook is in the top 100 for the first time.

Even vending machines have become social, thanks to Pepsi's latest invention.

Researchers assert that there is an increasing need for physicians to create a healthy distance between their work and home online identities with ubiquitous social media sites like Facebook and Twitter blurring private and professional lines.

The United Arab Emirates reportedly plans to stop individuals and small businesses from using certain BlackBerry messaging services, but the government says that no customers will be affected.

Updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other real-time content sites could be worth more than $30 million a day, or nearly $10.9 billion a year, to advertisers, researchers say.

According to a new report from Symantec cyber criminals aimed at big business with targeted attacks.

A recent novel experiment conducted by an assistant professor in communications at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania found that personal tweets on the social media platform raise the credibility of professors in the eyes of students.

Salesforce.com said it agreed to acquire Radian6, a social media monitoring platform, for about $326 million in cash and stock deal a move that will help Salesforce to effectively market its cloud-based products.