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Ignore social networks at your peril, retailers told

News Gartner's tips for retailers wanting to get in on the social network action include looking beyond the big names of Facebook and MySpace due to the huge amount of activity in the area. Analyst house Gartner says social networking sites are starting...

Tags: gartner, marketing, traffic, retailers

[02 May 2008]

Facebook top of Vodafone's mobile web

News Bebo is fifth in the ranking, while MySpace is eighth. The social networking craze is helping to drive mobile broadband, says Vodafone UK. The top two searches on the operator's mobile internet service - which launched last summer - are social...

Tags: mobile internet, social networking, vodafone, facebook

[01 May 2008]

FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

Comment The social websites are the big target now - MySpace, Facebook.People are less careful and more likely to click on a link or download something. Social networking sites as infection hotbeds Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Internet big boys engage in war over Yahoo!

News which would bring in News Corp's MySpace social networking site and create a more formidable rival to internet juggernaut Google, newspaper reports said. Microsoft's MSN and News Corp's MySpace, creating a formidable counterweight to web leader...

Tags: news corp, google, yahoo

[10 Apr 2008]

Call to increase online data protection for teens

News The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)- plans to ask the Federal Trade Commission this week to establish rules that will help protect teens from data collection and...

Tags: myspace, facebook

[10 Apr 2008]

Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation

News and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for developer applications on...

Tags: google, yahoo, myspace, foundation

[26 Mar 2008]

Social Networking: Brave New World or Revolution from Hell? A look at the phenomenon of Social Networking and the implications for Businesses

whitepaper Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, Perfspot, Friendster, Neighborhood - the list of social networking Web sites goes on and on. Masses of users are signing up to their services at an astonishing rate; MySpace alone currently has over 200 million...

Tags: network security

[13 Mar 2008]

AOL snaps up Bebo for $850m

News Combined, they said, AOL will own a 'social graph' of 80 million people, bigger than the 67 million that the independently run Facebook currently counts but still significantly smaller than News Corp.s MySpace.com.

Tags: bebo, acquisition, social networks, aol

[13 Mar 2008]

Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation

News Marks, a veteran of blog search start-up Technorati, now works on the search giant's OpenSocial initiative, which is working toward a universal standard for social networking standards and is slated to launch on MySpace.com and Hi5 as well as...

Tags: google, myspace, social networking, open source

[03 Mar 2008]

Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown

News In contrast MySpace has seen a nine per cent fall in the number of unique visitors year on year with around five million users. And Bebo is now hot on the heels of MySpace for second spot in the UK, enjoying a 53 per cent increase in users to 4.1...

Tags: facebook, bebo, users, myspace

[22 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Wednesday

Comment I'm now launching MySpace on the mobile phone. executive VP, Marco Boerries, who shows off a new product called OneConnect - due to launch this spring - which allows users to aggregate all their social networking comms in one place.

Tags: mobile, google, iphone, blackberry

[14 Feb 2008]

Vodafone CEO warns of Apple, Google threat

News In his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today, Sarin said: "We must as an industry learn to both partner and compete with these new players because our customers want to experience entertainment such as music...

Tags: arun sarin, vodafone, advertising, operating systems

[12 Feb 2008]

Yahoo! bides its time with Microsoft bid

News Meanwhile, on Saturday a TechCrunch blogger cited rumours that News Corp.which had considered merging its MySpace social-networking site with Yahoo! Yahoo! has said its response to Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn takeover bid will not be immediate.

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, bid, stories

[04 Feb 2008]

BBC beds down with MySpaceTV

News BBC Worldwide has clubbed together with MySpace to bring new and archived content to the social networking site's new video platform, MySpace TV. Selected BBC content will be available to subscribers to the BBC Worldwide channel on MySpaceTV for...

Tags: bbc, on demand, content, online

[24 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08

Round-Up The CIOs questioned expressed a preference for LinkedIn and Plaxo which are, of course, very useful for networking but nowhere near as popular as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook, mainly because they're full of IT people talking about work.

Tags: iphone, mac, apple, macworld

[18 Jan 2008]

Social networking "white elephant" warning

News Issues that businesses need to consider before investing developing internal social networking tools include protecting personal intellectual property and people's preference for using existing non-professional external networks such as Bebo...

Tags: linkedin, social networking, facebook, gartner

[13 Dec 2007]

IBM Wants You to Get Social at Work with Lotus Connections

whitepaper "MySpace for the workplace" could describe the social networking tools that organizations will be seeking in an effort to bring Web 2.0 technologies to work. This IDC whitepaper looks at how IBM's Lotus Connections is intended to help organizations...

Tags: extranet, productivity, networking, workforce

[06 Dec 2007]

Steve Jobs top of the Power pops

News Media mogul and head of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch was placed at number two, in part due to his company's ownership of social-networking site MySpace, which was acquired in 2005 for $580m. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25...

Tags: apple, google, steve jobs, jobs

[29 Nov 2007]

Microsoft cuts itself a slice of Facebook pie

News When asked what had happened with Google, widely rumoured to be another major bidder in the Facebook stake competition - and which serves the ads for Facebook's chief rival MySpace - Van Natta answered that it was because the partnership with...

Tags: google, microsoft, social networking, facebook

[25 Oct 2007]

MySpace and Skype to get chatty

News MySpace still leads the social networking field in membership and traffic but has lost its place in the spotlight to fast-growing rival Facebook. MySpace and Skype are set to announce a tie-in that will see the eBay-owned telephony client providing...

Tags: im, voip, myspace, skype

[17 Oct 2007]

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