SocialMedia

Yammer Opens European HQ In London’s Tech City

Enterprise social network Yammer has opened a new European headquarters at London's 'Silicon Roundabout'

13 years ago

Google+ User Estimate Hints At Rapid Growth

Google+ is estimated to have signed up at least 5 million users in the United States alone

13 years ago

Facebook Needs ‘Major Rewrite’ Warns Database Guru

Facebook's reliance on MySQL is unsustainable and requires a total rewrite, warns Michael Stonebraker

13 years ago

Facebook Hit By Video Calling Scam

Just days after launch, the scammers have started hitting on Facebook’s video callers with a fake application

13 years ago

Video Calling Trend Adds A New Face To Social Networks

Facebook Video Calling with Skype is attracting interest from all sides of the industry, including scammers

13 years ago

Hacker ‘Discovers’ Facebook Music Service

A clue in the coding of Facebook’s video chat service hints at ‘Facebook Vibes’ music app

13 years ago

Google Spams Google+ Users After Disk Overload

Full disks resulted in Google+ users getting multiple notifications - a bad start for the vaunted Facebook killer

13 years ago

Facebook, Google Face Off On Video Chat

Facebook and Google are taking different approaches to integrating video into their social networks

13 years ago

Google+ To Target Businesses

Google+ is to compete with both LinkedIn and Facebook by allowing businesses to join

13 years ago

Google’s Schmidt Lays Out Grand Plan For Google+

Google's Eric Schmidt outlined the search giant's vision for Google+ at a conference in the US yesterday

13 years ago

Facebook-Skype Deal Deepens Microsoft Alliance

Facebook's new Skype integration is another marker in its long-deepening relationship with Microsoft, says Nicholas Kolakowski

13 years ago

Facebook Launches Free Video Chat With Skype

The social networking giant also adds group chat, improved interface, and reveals it has 750 million users

13 years ago

PayPal UK Twitter Feed Hacked In Customer Protest

PayPal's UK Twitter feed is back to normal after a disgruntled user peppered it with insults

13 years ago

Technology Overwhelms One In Three

A third of people feel so overwhelmed by communications technology that they are desperate to escape it

13 years ago

Forrester: The Cloud Is Inherently Green

The cloud is inherently green, but cloud service providers need to broaden the scope of their green credentials

13 years ago

Scammers Exploit Google+ Launch

Fake invitations to Google's new social network send users to a Canadian Viagra vendor

13 years ago

Facebook Engineers Clone Google+ Circles

Circle Hack is an unofficial Facebook application that imitates one of the key features of the new Google+

13 years ago

Facebook Video Chat Deal With Skype Rumoured

Facebook's 'awesome' new product is rumoured to be an in-browser video chat tie-up with Skype

13 years ago

BBC To Ban Stars From Leaking Spoilers On Twitter

BBC executives are reportedly considering a ban on stars tweeting to disclose forthcoming programme details

13 years ago

Greenpeace Makes Peace With Data Centres

Data centre operators should be more open about their energy use, according to Greenpeace

13 years ago

Google+ Gets In A Huddle Muddle?

Part of Google+ uses the name of an existing social media player. On the command, unleash lawyers!

13 years ago

Google Redesign Backs Social Effort

The Google search pages have been tidied up, and it's designed to boost the use of the Google+ social tools,…

13 years ago

MySpace Sale Rumoured To Go Through This Week

The sale of MySpace by its owner News Corp could be imminent, according to reports in the US media

13 years ago

Google Launches Facebook-Like Google+

Google+ is a bid by the search engine to get access to another lucrative ad market in social networking

13 years ago

Security Firm Offers Facebook-Sitting Security Service

An Essex-based security firm is offering to post fake updates on Facebook and Twitter while clients are on holiday

13 years ago

Facebook Twins Seek New Law Suit

The Winklevoss twins dropped one case, but are suing again for a bigger share of Facebook

13 years ago

Universities Beat Business In Social Media Use

Businesses could learn a lot from universities when it comes to using social-media to engage with audiences

13 years ago

Facebook Beats Winklevosses, Second Case Looms

The Winklevoss twins have decided to settle with Facebook but another case is shaping up for court hearings

13 years ago

A Billion Visitors A Month Call On Google

Google is facing stiff competition from Facebook online, despite topping the billion unique visitor mark in May

13 years ago

Is Greenpeace’s War On ‘Dirty Data’ A Just One?

Greenpeace is putting pressure on companies to improve their data centre practices, but ultimately the industry will have to find…

13 years ago