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Identified.com has managed to secure $21 million in series B funding after already raising a $1.5 million Series A financing. The site, which is the fastest growing career site for...

HootSuite & HubSpot Announce Partnership to Close the Loop on Social Media Marketing

In the past three years, the average budget spent on social media marketing has grown 133%. In an effort to transform social media from a promotion and engagement tool to one more...

Google: +1 Is Not The Best Quality Signal

Google launched the +1 button, even before people knew about Google+, the social network. It w...

Every 40 Minutes, Some Idiot Commits A Crime Involving Facebook

Facebook, on its own, isn't dangerous. Despite the fact that we occasionally hear stories about stalkings, harassment, child predation, theft, and many more crimes involving the s...

Oracle to Buy Cloud-Based Social Monitor, Collective Intellect

Today, Software-as-a-Service provider, Oracle announce its plans to acquire Collective Intellect, a cloud-based social media monit...

Google Shuts Down Panoramio iPhone App

Google announced this morning that it is taking down Panoramio's iPhone uploader app and geota...

Do Social Media Sites View Privacy As A Burden?

When interviewing Robert Ellis Smith, privacy expert extraordinaire, WebProNews' Abby Johnson asked him how the recent FTC/Myspace ruli...

Twitter Takes A Hard Look At Real-Time Search Queries

Google, which has essentially ruled the search world for years, once recognized the value of realtime search, and Twitter search in particular. The two companies had a deal, which...

Social Media in the Middle East [Infographic]

Yes, we know a social media presence is an absolutely vital component of any successful marketing effort in United States, but how are other countries coming along with adopting th...

Google Tells You Everything You Need To Know About Google+ Local

Last week, Google revealed...

Social Media Stocks Continue to Struggle

Social media stocks are continuing to have a hard time this week following the widely-chronicled Facebook IPO fiasco. S...

Google+ Local Reveals Google’s Plan For Zagat

Google has announced that it's rolling out Google+ Local, which it bills...

No More Facebook? Women Would Suffer The Most

After spending a little over a week abroad with some less-than-predictable wi-fi connectivity, I kind of missed social media. Sure, I was taking in beautiful architecture and ever...

Is Google Forcing Google+ Down People’s Throats?

Earlier this week, actor/Internet celebrity Wil Wheaton posted a pretty interesting rant about Google...

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