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UberMedia Lands $5.6 Million for Social Media Applications

Pasadena, Calif. - UberMedia, a provider of applications for reading and posting to Twitter and other social media platforms, announced on Thursday that it...

Publisher Sites Add Google +1 Content Recommendation Buttons

Mountain View, Calif. - Google has expanded its "+1" content recommendation button and service to publisher websites, which will allow users to click a...

Twitter Details New Photo Service, Search Upgrade

San Francisco - Confirming earlier media reports, Twitter said on Thursday that it will launch its own photo uploading and sharing service, with images...

Lady Gaga, Google's Schmidt Fund Social Start-up Backplane

New York - Backplane, a start-up co-founded by Lady Gaga business manager Troy Carter that aims to power online communities based around artists, sports...

WSJ: Low Bids for MySpace Prompt News Corp. to Seek Partnership

Los Angeles - News Corp. has not received any bids for its struggling MySpace social network to its liking, and now appears to be...

Facebook Debuts Facial Recognition for Photo Tagging

Palo Alto, Calif. - Facebook has quietly launched a new facial recognition tool that can help users tag photos in most countries where the...

Twitter Launches Own Auto Link-Shortening Feature

San Francisco - Twitter on Wednesday launched its in-house URL shortening service, which will see links pasted by users when tweeting on Twitter.com automatically...

Paramount Promotes "SUPER 8" Advance Screenings on Twitter

Los Angeles - Viacom's Paramount Pictures partnered with Twitter to promote its new film "SUPER 8" with a series of sneak preview showings this...

Social Dating Platform Flirtic Raises Funds for Expansion

Tallinn, Estonia — Flirtic.com, a dating site created for savvy social media elites, announced Thursday that it has raised a venture round funded by...

EU to Probe Facebook Over Facial Recognition Feature

Brussels - European Union (EU) data-protection regulators will look into Facebook's new technology feature that uses facial recognition software to make suggestions of friends...