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It's become clear that check-ins are becoming about more than just locations. While location is obviously a big part of it, we've seen several examples of non-place "check-...

Cheezburger Network Offers to Buy Reddit

Ben Huh, who runs the Cheezburger Network, has offered to buy Reddit. This comes after Condé Nast, which owns Reddit, rejected Prop 19 ads on the site (Facebook also reje...

Facebook Talks Questions, Lists, Mobile

As usual, Facebook is making its way into a lot of headlines for a lot of reasons. While many of them have to do with...

Facebook, Venture Firm Partner To Support Startups

Social-minded startups with ties to Y Combinator, a well-known provider of seed funding, will soon get another benefit from the relationship. Last night, Facebook announce...

Facebook Tries To Own “Face” And “Book”

As you may have read, Facebook is suing Teachbook for using...

How Far Would You Go to Control Employee Social Media Use?

CareerBuilder released some survey findings this week...

Why Stop at the Web? Facebook to Take Over the World?

With its Open Graph announcement at F8 earlier this year, Facebook appeared to be launching an initiative to take over the web. It's been pretty successful so far. You'd be hard...

Facebook Vows To Improve Chat Feature

The social network that acts as an online home to more than 500 million people intends to do a better job of letting them communicate with one another in the future. This...

New Digg Rolls Out to Mainstream [Updated with Walkthrough Video]

Yesterday, Digg gave publishers (including WebProNews) thousands of invitations to extend to their readers for the new version of Digg. Now today, Digg has begun rolling out the...

MySpace Cleans Up its Profiles

MySpace has introduced new profiles for users, musicians, and celebrities. The goal, was to "clean things up", so MySpace is offering a newly designed MySpace profile...

Facebook Users Become Fans Of Brands For Discounts And Promotions

Nearly 40 percent (39%) of Facebook users who become fans of a brand do so to show their support of a company to their friends, according to new study by ExactTarget....

Facebook Tops Orkut In India

For a long time, Orkut has been the one bright spot in Google's social media stable; it's been the sole product that became really popular in some markets, even as everything el...

Here’s an Invitation to the New Digg

Digg is giving out invitations to the new Digg. Specifically, it's giving out handfuls of invitations to publishers to offer to their readers. "We want to s...

Murders Organized Using Facebook

From time to time, we get a reminder of the true power of social media, and the fact that sometimes that power is used by evildoers. The latest example comes...

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