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Google to buy social media startup Meebo

(Reuters) - The world's biggest search engine, Google Inc, will buy Meebo Inc, a startup that helps online publishers connect their websites with social network sites, Meebo said on its blog. Last month, technology blog All Things Digital reported that Google was in talks to buy Meebo in a deal worth about $100 million. California-based Meebo provides software that lets users share pages on social networking sites, including Facebook, allowing publishers and advertisers to promote products in interactive ways. ... read more..

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Yandex.Factory Seed Funding Bears Fruit: SocialMart Launches Social Shopping With Yandex.Market

It's not a given that a leader in search can successfully pivot into other areas like social media -- just ask Google -- but a new service launching in Russia today, from that country's search leader Yandex, shows one route a company with a lot of smarts can take to make sure they remain a central player in the social game. Today sees the launch of SocialMart, a social shopping startup financed by Yandex (through its seed-funding program Yandex.Factory), and powered by Yandex (via Yandex.Market), but is not Yandex itself.Both Yandex and SocialMart are banking on the fact that the rising popularity of ecommerce in Russia is inevitably going to cross over with the equally popular trend of social networking: up to now, those twains have not met, unlike in other markets, where services like Mertado (now part of Groupon), Sneakpeeq, and Fab have been running away with the "social shopping" banner, picking up users and funding in the process. read more..

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NBA Playoff Teams' Seasons in Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

The NBA's lockout-shortened regular season has come to a close and the 2012 playoffs tip-off Saturday. It was a pretty remarkable season on the court -- LeBron James's statistical genius, Jeremy Lin's magical run and Blake Griffin's thunderous dunks being just a few of many highlights. read more..

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Even Marines Can't Escape the Consequences of Facebook Rants

COMMENTARY | As social media has grown over the last several years, companies have had to create new policies and procedures regarding how to handle employees that misuse such outlets. It seems that even those serving in the military are not immune to the consequences, despite the fact that they are serving to protect our freedom. And, when a Marine sergeant tried to exercise his free speech via Facebook, he became an example of exactly what might happen when you take things too far. read more..

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Constitution Check: Can reporters be barred from using social media during a criminal trial?

Between the extremes of a hands-off attitude and assigning blame for destroying courtroom decorum, trial judges have very wide discretion to decide how to run their courtrooms. read more..

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With Help From Facebook Timeline, Viddy Becomes Top Free iPhone App

With the skyrocketing popularity and billion-dollar sale of Instagram, there's an ongoing race to apply Instagram's wildly successful photo sharing model to mobile video. There are a number of startups vying to claim the "Instagram for Video" title, with Socialcam, Viddy, Klip, Mobli, and even the infamous Color all in the running. Yet, today brings evidence that Viddy may now be the one to beat, as the social video sharing app became the top free iPhone app on the App Store -- with much of that growth emanating from its new Facebook Timeline app. read more..

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Study: CIOs May Like To Talk The Social Media Talk, But Only 10% Walk The Walk

The use of social media in the enterprise has been a path well-trod by companies using mass market tools like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to communicate with peers, customers, investors and anyone else who might be interested in what they’re up to. But when it comes to the most senior information executives, they’re actually a little antisocial.According to data compiled by social software provider harmon.ie, only about 10 percent of CIOs in the top companies -- Fortune 250 and and Global 250 -- actively use public social networks. Within that group, only four CIOs write blogs, and more than one-third either do not have LinkedIn profiles, or have profiles with fewer than 100 connections. read more..

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Marines seek DOD guidance on social media use

Marine Corps officials are seeking additional guidance from the Pentagon regarding service members' use of social media amid discharge proceedings against a Camp Pendleton sergeant who criticized President Barack Obama on Facebook. read more..

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They're not Facebook, but social media stocks run up anyway

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The hype over Facebook's initial public offering has excited investors revisiting other social media companies, even though most of those stocks have plunged since the fanfare of their own IPOs. Trading volume and options activity in stocks like Renren Inc, often called "the Facebook of China" and Quepasa Corp, a social media technology company focused on Latin audiences, have soared since the IPO news of the world's largest social network on Friday. ... read more..

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Study considers whether Facebook would buy Washington Post

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Would Facebook buy the Washington Post to keep the paper running? That's the provocative question at the heart of a new study by the Pew Research Center. The growth of social media and technology companies like Twitter and Amazon are encouraging more and more news consumption, but legacy media companies such as the Post and the New York Times are not benefiting financially from the broader reader base. On average, newspapers in the United States shed $10 in print advertising last year for every $1 they earned online. ... read more..

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Your Facebook 'Like' Can Fund Seeing Eye Dogs

Explore.org's social media community Dog Bless You is running a Facebook campaign that converts "Likes" into donated seeing eye dogs. read more..

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London Olympics volunteers warned over social media use

LONDON (Reuters) - Volunteers working at the London Olympics have been warned not to give away breaking news about athletes or disclose the location of politicians and celebrities through online comments or pictures posted on social media sites. Organisers are in the process of recruiting 70,000 unpaid volunteers to help run the Games from July 27-August 12. Britain said last month that it would provide up to 13,500 troops to protect the Games after organisers said security needed to be doubled. As well as the athletes, many world leaders traditionally visit the Games at some point. ... read more..

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Avoid Social Media M.B.A.'s, Some Students Say

Business school courses are increasingly focusing on social media management, governance, and strategy. The Business School at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--Newark offers a "Mini-M.B.A." in social media marketing, and Excelsior College in Albany, N.Y., recently announced an M.B.A. concentration in social media management. read more..

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Zynga outgrows Facebook, launches Zynga.com, Zynga Platform

Wildly popular social game-maker Zynga announced today that it is expanding beyond the walled garden of Facebook to offer games at Zynga.com. Through this site, users will be able to partake in Zynga’s variety of games without having to go through Facebook first. (Well, kinda.) read more..

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Is Social Media Actually Making Us Less Connected?

LONG BEACH, Calif. – Checking email during meetings. Shopping on your smartphone in the middle of class. Texting at funerals. These are a few of the examples that MIT professor Sherry Turkle offered during her TEDTalk on Thursday, in which she argued that “technology is taking us places we don’t want to go.” read more..

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Exclusive: Facebook seeking bigger credit line: sources

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc plans to increase its $2.5 billion credit line to help cover a major tax hit when employee stock awards vest shortly after it goes public, according to two sources familiar with the company's plans. The world's largest social media network, which boosted its borrowing capacity by two-thirds just six months ago, is taking advantage of its strong position to get more financing for its phenomenal growth, the sources said. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about such plans. ... read more..

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Primary Night in Michigan and Arizona: A Social Media Snapshot

It's primary day in America, folks: citizens in Michigan and Arizona are headed to the polls Tuesday to vote for their preferred Republican candidate to go up against President Obama in November. As we've seen in the past, the social web is aflame with posts, tweets and videos from the political battlegrounds. read more..

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Yahoo threatening Facebook with first-ever lawsuit over social media patents

We have sat through talk after talk about Yahoo’s potential sale to this company or that company, but in its bid to stay relevant among its competitors, has Yahoo gone too far? According to The New York Times, Yahoo may be seeking legal action against Facebook in what may play out as the first-ever battle over social media patents. read more..

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Ex-Sun CEO McNealy Dives into Social Media with Old Friends

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wayin, the new social media venture backed by Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy, announced it has raised $14 million in Series B funding from U.S. Venture Partners. If there's an element of déjà vu to the news, it's because the funding round closed almost 30 years to the day after McNealy founded Sun, in 1982, with U.S.V.P. as its first major investor. A nostalgic McNealy, who serves as chairman of Wayin's board, told a gathering of investors celebrating the news at his Portola Valley, Calif. home last week that the U.S.V.P. ... read more..

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5 Clever Social Media Campaigns To Learn From

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. read more..

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S. African officials use Twitter for Mandela news

Nelson Mandela's health scares send Twitter into overdrive, but South African officials made savvier use of social media to keep the world informed on the global icon's latest medical woe. read more..

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Votizen Raises $750k From Sean Parker, Others, To Turn Elections From Fundraising To ‘Friendraising’

Just in time for the general elections coming up later this year, Votizen, the social media site that helps like-minded voters get together and influence how those elections go, has raised $750,000. And while that may sound like a modest number -- in true voter influencer fashion -- it's the backers that are going to count here. read more..

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The BYOD struggle: From writing custom apps to defining security

Companies are grappling with the question of whether and how to let employees use their own smartphones and tablets at work even as a huge push is being made to set up internal "app stores" of approved and custom-built corporate mobile apps. read more..

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Social media at forefront of social protest

LOS ANGELES, Feb 3 (TheWrap.com) - From SOPA to Ellen DeGeneres, protesting keeps getting more social. Thanks to Twitter and Facebook, digital agitation has entered the mainstream allowing people to affect change at a dizzying speed. Going viral is no longer reserved for cute puppy videos. Social networking has moved into new areas of social protest, Tim Stevens, editor-in-chief of the technology blog Engadget, said Friday, shortly after Susan G. Komen Foundation reversed course on pulling Planned Parenthood funding in wake of a fierce social media protest. ... read more..

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Microsoft launches msnNOW for Twitter, Facebook and breaking news buzz

Microsoft, via its MSN portal, has launched a new social reader called msnNOW. The website aggregates breaking news stories and hot topics from social media sites including Facebook and Twitter and highlights rising search trends. read more..

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In homes with tablets, most kids use them: Nielsen

About 70 percent of children in households with tablet computers used these devices, according to fourth-quarter results from research firm Nielsen. read more..

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Jeremy Lin Gets a Facebook Profile. What Took Him So Long?

Jeremy Lin fans can't get enough of the NBA's newest superstar on social media. Now they can get more than before. On Monday morning, Lin joined Facebook as a member -- not just with a profile, but a Timeline profile. read more..

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Twitter index: new Rihanna "Chris Brown collaborations shock fans, Pancake Day

Rihanna and ex-boyfriend Chris Brown have shocked fans with the revelation that they collaborated on two tracks. The news has started rumors that the two are dating again. read more..

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