Category Archives: Social Media

Twitter and Yandex , the Russian search engine , have signed partnership deal under which users of Yandex would be able to search for results from Twitter in real time. Google is still behind Yandex in Russia , which is … Continue reading →

A High Court judge in UK has allowed to serve legal notices through Facebook . It is a general practice in New Zealand and Australia already . Facebook has also been used in Britian on certain occasions for this purpose … Continue reading →

Twitter has launched a platform to allow small platforms to buy ads on the popular messaging service. Twitter has been trying to monetize the service for many years with little luck but hopes that the new platform will help it … Continue reading →

Following Twitter and Google+ , Facebook has also announced that it is verifying user accounts and will also allow pseudonyms. Facebook had previously made it mandatory to use real names. This change of policy is , however , not available to … Continue reading →

The business review website , Yelp will go public later this month with a hope to raise $115 million valuing the company at $850 million . Yelp was founded by PayPal  co-founder Max Levchin and reports 66 million unique visitors per month … Continue reading →

Court of Justice of the European Union , the highest court in Europe , has ruled that the social networks can not be forced to isntall filters for blocking users from downloading illegal music . The court said that it … Continue reading →

Zynga , the social gaming company has released its first results after going public . The results beat Wall Street’s expectations but not by a big margin. The fourth quarter revenue of Zynga , the company that made FarmVille , … Continue reading →

If you are a big fan of Angry Birds game and you spend a lot of time on Facebook , then you are in luck . Facebook has added Angry Birds to its site , Rovio , the maker of … Continue reading →

We learned earlier through Facebook’s IPO filing that Facebook wants to target mobile ads . Now another social network LinkedIn has announced that it was ready to “start to introduce advertising in our mobile solutions”. This was stated by Jeff Weinter … Continue reading →

LinkedIn , the professional networking service , has positive outlook for the current quarter and its its outlook for the full year has surpassed the expectations . The company expects to continue its strong product growth and increase in premium subscriptions . … Continue reading →