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As noted earlier this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is donating $100 million to public schools, starting in Newark, New Jersey. He's set up a foundation called Startup:Educ...

Facebook Explains Outage

Facebook was down for over 2.5 hours for some users, according to a post from the company. A post in Facebook's engineering notes says: The key flaw that cau...

LinkedIn Gets Integrated with Windows Live Messenger

LinkedIn and Microsoft announced today that Windows Live Messenger users can now link their Windows Live profile to LinkedIn. There are four main areas Microsoft says its focuse...

Those Getting Feet Wet in Online Marketing May Find Visa Business Network Helpful

You may or may not be aware of the Visa Business Network. This is a site the company recently launched as a way to connect small...

Twitter To Release Free Analytics Tool This Year

People who use Twitter for business purposes should soon get access to a valuable flow of information. A Twitter employee indicated this week that Twitter is going to rele...

LinkedIn to Acquire B2B Ratings Provider ChoiceVendor

LinkedIn announced that it has agreed to acquire...

Canadian Privacy Authority Approves Facebook Changes

Facebook's privacy team can breathe a small sigh of relief; the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is not going to trouble them further at this time. Commissioner Jennifer Sto...

Facebook Making Changes Towards Their ‘Rejection’ System

Whenever we bark about Facebook and privacy I liken it to complaining about politicians. In my mind, you have no, as in zero, right to complain about a politician if you didn&...

Facebook Users May Have People Following Them They Aren’t Aware Of

Facebook has a somewhat hidden feature that lets people follow your updates when you're not actually friends with them. Before you freak out, this is only applicable for updates...

Major Security Flaw Discovered (and Exploited) on Twitter

Update: Twitter has addressed the issue on the main company blog: The short story: This morning at 2:54 am PDT Twitter was notified of a secu...

Facebook: We’re Not Working on a Phone

Update: The following statement from Facebook was left in the comments: “The story, which originated in Techcrunch, is not accurate. Fa...

Facebook Product Review Features on the Way from PowerReviews

Later this month, PowerReviews will announce several new Facebook-related additions to its social commerce suite. "This news is e...

Facebook Places Launches In The UK

Some Facebook users who live to the east of the Atlantic can now share their location on the site. Today, Facebook Places launched in the UK, allowing people to check in a...

Why the New Twitter May Benefit Businesses and Marketers Greatly

This week, Twitter introduced a new redesign of Twitter.com with a two-pane format aimed at providing a richer user experience, and...

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