Archive for May, 2011
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Pop diva Lady Gaga has become the first person with more than 10 million followers on Twitter.
"@ladygaga just reached 10 million. Wow!" the San Francisco-based micro-blogging service said in a tweet on Monday.
Lady Gaga had 10.06 million followers as of Monday afternoon.
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
Stumped for an original name for their newborn daughter, an Israeli couple took inspiration from social networking site Facebook and named her "Like", Maariv reported.
The parents lifted the name from the popular feature on the site, which allows Facebook users to click on the word "like" and give the thumbs-up ...
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Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Authorities say four people were indicted in a Houston bank robbery in the US after bragging about it on Facebook.
Federal prosecutors say two former tellers at the International Bank of Commerce recruited a boyfriend and a brother to steal more than $US62,000 on 23 March.
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
The US Secret Service, renowned for the sharp suited agents protecting the US president, made its debut on Twitter this week, saying the micro-blogging site could help recruiting.
The agency, which also has a uniformed branch and protects the grounds of the White House, has a second mission of preventing currency ...
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
A social media initiative is bringing the donation tin to your desktop, making giving to charity as simple and as cheap as one click of your mouse.
Six charities have joined the Commonwealth Bank in a Facebook fund raising campaign – to be launched today – Community Seeds, where all you ...
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Sunday, May 8th, 2011
Facebook and Google are separately considering a tie-up with Skype after the web video conferencing service delayed its initial public offering, two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions said.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has taken part in internal discussions about buying Skype, according to one of the sources. Another ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Twitter used to ask "What are you doing?" No longer. The micro-blogging service now wants to know "What's happening?"
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced the change in Twitter's tag line in a blog post on Thursday.
"Twitter was originally conceived as a mobile status update service -- an easy way to keep ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Facebook’s business is growing faster than the company had predicted a few months ago, leading to speculation that its IPO could be in the $US100 billion range, according to a report.
The Wall Street Journal, citing people who’ve seen Facebook’s recent financial information, reports [subscription required] that the IPO could happen ...
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, is being sued for not getting parents’ permission before displaying that minors “like” the products of its advertisers.
The lawsuit seeks class-action status on behalf of Facebook users in New York state under the age of 18 who had “their names or likenesses ...
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Before US President Barack Obama confirmed that Osama bin Laden had been killed, Twitter was abuzz with speculation and subsequent confirmation from officials and news outlets.
On Facebook, the group "Osama Bin Laden is DEAD" had attracted 250,000 "likes" within hours of the news filtering through social media.
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