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MerchantCircle, an online network of US local business owners, revealed in its quarterly reports that more local businesses are turning to Facebook and other social networking...

Facebook Picks Up New Employees From Pursuit

Pursuit, a small startup designed to connect employers with job candidates via social networks, has secured what some people (though not all - more on that in a minute) would co...

Facebook Privacy Policy Gets “Re-imagined”

Facebook announced today that it has started a new version of its privacy policy to make it easier to understand. I could've...

Social Media: More than Twitter and Facebook? Uh, yeah.

The following post is based on a discussion at the Cincinnati Social Media LinkedIn Group. In what seems...

Fashion Brands Using Facebook To Best Effect

Lots of companies have a strong presence on Facebook, with Chipotle, Ford, and NBC all making significant moves just this week. But when it comes to effective marketing in...

Report: Pres. Of MySpace Music To Step Down

In fairness to MySpace: its brand recognition is off the charts, and it still receives traffic for which many sites' owners would kill. But just about everyone who doesn't...

ChaCha Sues HTC Over ChaCha Trademark

Earlier this month, HTC unveiled some new mobile de...

Corona Launches Text Campaign To Raise Money For Cancer Cure

Corona is launching a new text donation campaign to help The V Foundation for Cancer Research raise money for a cancer cure. Starting March 1 through...

Payvment Opens Social Shopping Mall On Facebook

Social ecommerce platform Payvment has launched the first-ever shopping mall on Facebook. Payvment says its “Shopping Mall” on Facebook offers over one milli...

Facebook Lets Site-Owners Target Content Based on Individual “Likes”

Did you know you can publish content directly to people that click the "like" button on any piece of content on your site?...

Opportunity Clicks: Social Media and Converting Clicks Into Action

Social Media is celebrated for its power to cultivate influential relationships and foster viral conversations. As consumer attention shifts away from traditional mediums and mi...

Foursquare Announcements Coming at SXSW

This week, we posted an article about some comments Foursqua...

Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley Talks Facebook Competition

Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley appeared on CNBC, discussing how Foursquare can compete with Facebook. "They're a huge platform and a big competitor, b...

Foursquare Hosts Developers at Hackathon

Recall, it was not too long ago that Foursquare released their latest developer toolset, the foursquare API v2. Recently, in an effort to bolster the developer co...

Is Blogging Really in Danger Because of Social Networks?

Here we go again with another one of those silly social media vs. blogs debates. The New York Times stirred the pot this time with an article called, "...

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