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Instagram Snaps Up Luma 24 Aug 2013 | 03:21 pm
Mobile video startup Luma Camera has been purchased by Instagram, the company announced yesterday. It's yet another sign that the rivalry between Facebook's Instagram and Twitter's Vine is heating up....
Twitter Debuts "Story Behind the Tweet" Feature 24 Aug 2013 | 03:16 pm
Twitter continues to find new ways to insert itself into the conversation around big news stories. Its latest effort is to show "related headlines" linking to news articles that embed particular tweet...
Social Gaming On the Rise 19 Aug 2013 | 02:17 am
Gaming continues to grow more social online, even as the industry has its fits and starts. King ends titles Last week, a popular game developer on Facebook, King, announced it was discontinuing five...
Study: Facebook Impacts Happiness 18 Aug 2013 | 10:51 pm
Another round of stories appeared last week suggesting that heavy Facebook use makes young people feel worse about themselves, possibly because when they see how others are leading their lives, they f...
Facebook to Boost Mobile Shopping? 18 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm
Facebook got a lot of publicity last week for what it described as a "very small test" of a new payment system designed to simplify shopping on mobile phones. ... Read Full Post
Facebook Tweaks its News Feed 18 Aug 2013 | 02:48 pm
Once again Facebook is changing the news feed seen by more than a billion users worldwide. The network announced two changes this month. The first gives older stories a second chance at being viewed ...
Facebook Tests Trending Topics 18 Aug 2013 | 02:28 pm
After introducing two Twitter-like features, hashtags and embedded posts, Facebook said it is testing yet another feature popularized by its rival Twitter -- trending topics. As AllThingsD reported, ...
Facebook Statuses To Go Around the Web 4 Aug 2013 | 11:23 pm
Following up on its debut of hashtags earlier this summer, Facebook has introduced yet another feature that makes it more like Twitter. The latest feature is the ability to embed public posts from Fa...
Twitterscope: News of the Week 28 Jul 2013 | 02:31 pm
Pope Retweeted More than Obama Pope Francis (@Pontifex) is the most influential world leader on Twitter when judged by the number of retweets, while President Obama leads in the number of followers o...
Don't Worry, Be Happier 28 Jul 2013 | 01:27 pm
A social network called Happier wants to be the Twitter of happiness, or maybe the Facebook of joy. Want happiness? Get the app. Happier.com got a lot of publicity last week after co-founder Nataly ...
