More Security Holes in Software, Fewer Patches [August 25, 2010] According to IBM's X-Force security research group, vulnerabilities are proliferating, and while companies are getting better about reporting those flaws, the number of unpatched problems continues to rise.
Chip Sales, Revenues Surge Ahead [August 20, 2010] With growth in mobile and servers, respectively, AMD and Intel saw expansion in two different areas key to their business.
September 3, 2010 Special Report on Making Money Off The Social Web Companies have capitalized on the interest in social networking with search, advertising and user-generated content. Now platform advances are giving developers a piece of the fast-growing pie.
Awareness Helps Firms Manage Social Networks
[March 12, 2010] The new Awareness Social Marketing Hub is designed to help businesses leverage multiple social networks without a lot of heavy lifting.
Social Media in Search of Profits
[December 11, 2009] Challenges await companies looking to turn a profit in social media, but those who have share some of their tips.
Google Taking Search Social
[October 26, 2009] Social Search experiment goes live in effort to redraw search along the lines of the social graph.
PeopleMaps Finds New and 'Hidden' Connections
[October 21, 2009] Innovative social app leverages the 'six degrees of separation' idea to show visually how you are connected to other people.
Can It Pay to Be Social?
[October 06, 2009] Spiffbox meters social networking engagement so you pay AND get paid for participation.
Facebook, Twitter and Social Media Marketing
[September 17, 2009] A significant number of brands have amped up their social media marketing, but it's not just all about tapping Facebook and Twitter, says a new study.
Social Networks Dominate in Online Display Ads
[September 02, 2009] Social media giants MySpace and Facebook command a fifth of all online display ads seen by Web users, according to a new study.
Social Media Marketing Makes More Money
[July 22, 2009] Deep engagement with consumers through social media channels correlates to better financial performance, says new study.
Salesforce Taps Into Twitter
[March 23, 2009] Customer contact centers have moved far beyond the phone, says Salesforce, embracing Facebook, Twitter, and other Web applications.
How Ya Doing? Facebook Wants to Know.
[January 30, 2009] The social networking site is exploring ways to measure and create new services around users' sentiment.
More Cash Expected for Twitter
[January 27, 2009] Micro-blog site founders are mum but rumor has it that $20M is in the works.
Tweeters Beat Out Diggers
[January 21, 2009] Micro-blogging site surpasses link sharing activity, Hitwise reports.
What Keeps Twitter Chirping Along
[December 10, 2008] Complaints aside, Twitter is becoming indispensable not just for navel gazers but for companies looking to sell a product and keep in touch with customers.
Social Networks Not Ready for Business?
[November 25, 2008] Plenty of vendors offer enterprise solutions, but critics say most businesses aren't ready to be friends.
Here Comes 'Wave 3' of Microsoft's Live Services
[November 14, 2008] Microsoft prepares to roll out new and updated services for Windows Live with the focus on becoming the communications hub of users' lives.
The Future of Music in the Web 2.0 Era
[November 07, 2008] UPDATED: MySpace and Warner Music Group partnership could be the shape of digital music to come.
Blogs Better at Pushing Product?
[October 29, 2008] New research finds that bloggers' links are gaining heft as trusted guides for finding useful content and product purchases.
Tracking Success in Online Ads' Brave New World
[October 28, 2008] How do we measure whether ads worked or failed when it comes to video, social media or p2p networks? A lot's riding on the answer.
How Facebook Is Destroying the 'Nuclear Family'
[October 27, 2008] Just as technological and cultural changes ushered in the nuclear family 60 years ago, new changes are showing it the door. The biggest of these is the rise of social networking.
MySpace Tries Democracy in Ad Test
[October 13, 2008] Social network's 'HyperTargeting Technology' is now available in a
widespread beta test.
Social Networking: What Are 'Friends' For?
[September 03, 2008] Consider dropping your resistance to "open" social networking and embrace it with a vengeance. It's the best thing to happen to our species since language.
Confirmed: Facebook Movie a Go
[August 28, 2008] It's no hoax: famed Hollywood writer to pen movie about meteoric rise and controversial history of Facebook.
MySpace Tops in Display Ads
[August 27, 2008] New figures from comScore are the latest sign that ad business is heating up at social networking giant.
Big Media Looks to Win the Web
[July 25, 2008] If YouTube's wild popularity can be compared to a movie, ABC, Paramount, Yahoo and others say they'll have plenty to say about it how it ends.
Facebook Wants to Power Web-Wide Apps
[July 24, 2008] Zuckerberg talks up Facebook's plans to host applications and connect users beyond its site while clamping down on rogue developers. But it's got its work cut out for it.
LinkedIn Hits the B-Mark
[June 18, 2008] VC firms lay out $53 million for a 'multibillion dollar opportunity' and the site gets a valuation to rival Facebook.
Rethinking Social Networking
[May 20, 2008] One industry insider sees little hope and even less "community" in the mega social sites.
Yahoo Rewires to Get More Social
[April 24, 2008] Web giant says it's not building another social network, but is making major changes.
Widgets, Buzz And Digital Engagement
[April 16, 2008] How to make the most of emerging online ad trends? Brainiacs at the Min Day digital media summit share some ideas, tips and practices.
Can Online Ads Survive 'R' Word?
[April 16, 2008] Worries loom about measurement and standards for social networking and video ads as marketing dollars face a dry spell.
Who Leads Social Media?
[April 16, 2008] Ad-Tech panel illustrates disconnect between blogging and traditional advertising.
AOL Buying Social Networking Site
[March 13, 2008] UPDATED: With an eye toward engagement marketing, AOL sees Bebo acquisition as the "cornerstone" of its social media strategy.
MySpace The Music (Video) Exchange
[December 04, 2007] Site's new platform has a kind of music swapping vibe, with all legal provisions covered.
MySpace Plans to Get More Developer Friendly
[October 18, 2007] The social-networking site follows Facebook's lead in becoming a platform, with enhanced advertising features, to boot.
Skype Gives MySpace Users A Voice
[October 17, 2007] The Internet telephone service has hooked up with the world's largest social networking site to provide click-and-talk voice services. But is too much, too soon?
Cisco Not Done With Social Spending
[March 06, 2007] With Five Across and Utah Street social media technologies in
pocket, Cisco looks for more.
IBM Makes Social Computing Push For Business
[January 23, 2007] IBM's focus at Lotusphere is on connecting people and organizations
with the right information at the right time.
The Social Network Difference
[January 19, 2007] People use them to stay in touch and share media. But what makes people choose one over another?
Parental Controls Don't Save MySpace
[January 18, 2007] Four families sue the social-networking site just one day after it implemented parental controls.
MySpace From Your Phone
[December 18, 2006] The agreement with Cingular further blurs the lines of communication.
MySpace to Stop The Music
[October 31, 2006] The social networking site tabs GraceNote for beating back
unauthorized music on MySpace.com.
YouTube Gets Paris Lift
[August 22, 2006] A prison break and Paris Hilton highlight a new brand channel for the video
site.
Friendster's VC Hopes Rest on Patent Wishes
[August 22, 2006] The social network got some venture capital, but the figure doesn't hold up to other deals. Can a patent make all the difference?
Pairing The Odd Couple
[August 18, 2006] The YouTubes and MySpaces are keeping brand managers awake at night. And so are their numbers.
A New Plane of Users For AOL
[August 14, 2006] The company's latest acquisition directs the hot demographic toward the hot advertisers.
Google Deal Bails Out MySpace
[August 11, 2006] With Google onboard, can MySpace's advertising revenues
finally rise with the tide?
Making Money For The Flickr Flock?
[August 09, 2006] Flickr needs to pay the bills. An impromptu meeting with its founders reveals more than just a good photo.
Is There Money in MySpace?
[July 14, 2006] Sure the site is No. 1 in the U.S., but so far it's not making anybody
richer.
Flock to The Social User's Browser
[June 16, 2006] Knocked as FireFox with extensions, Flock promises to make it easier for blogging, photo sharing and content gathering.
Social Shopping at Yahoo
[November 15, 2005] Revamped site aims to amp holiday spending by adding social networking.
Cooking Up Social Media
[October 12, 2005] Yahoo's Berkeley lab is working on tools to enable personal content creation -- and to beat Google in the media game.
Yahoo Marks Social Calendar
[October 05, 2005] UPDATED: The popular Internet portal adds more local event capabilities to its site with the acquisition of Upcoming.org.
Yahoo Search Gets Social
[June 29, 2005] My Web 2.0 uses social networking to increase search relevance.
Social Credit Points Rack Up Online
[April 14, 2005] New reputation management services go beyond googling to let strangers check each other out before they do business.
Companies have capitalized on the interest in social networking with search, advertising and user-generated content. Now platform advances are giving developers a piece of the fast-growing pie.
