Foursquare may be struggling, but that doesn’t mean others aren’t jostling to take its place. A new app, Connect, just raised a…
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Will payments give Snapchat the next block of a mobile platform?
Today Snapchat rolled out a pay-your-friends feature called Snapcash, powered by Square. A fledgling peer-to-peer payment system like this is Snapchat's first big platform test.…
Read MoreFacebook puts a friendly spin on password security with launch of Trusted Contacts
As the issue of password security and online identity becomes more important than ever, Facebook has re-vamped its password security measures, allowing you to contact friends in case of trouble.…
Read MoreIt’s not you Facebook, it’s me — okay, it’s partly you: Why I unfriended almost everyone
I recently unfriended almost 80 percent of the people I was connected to on Facebook. Part of the problem was the way I was using it, but part of the problem was that Facebook has simply become a lot less relevant to me.…
Read MoreFacebook subscriptions let you fine-tune your news feed
On Wednesday, Facebook will announce subscriptions, which will let users decide what they want to see more and less of in their news feeds. Subscriptions build on the idea of more control, which follows Tuesday's Smart Lists, and enhanced privacy features introduced last month.…
Read MoreFacebook adds Smart Lists to categorize friends
Facebook made some pretty huge privacy changes last month. This month the social network is revealing more tools that help users automatically categorize friends, control who views content they post and allow users to decide whose status updates and photos they see the most and least.…
Read MoreCheck Out Pending Connections on LinkedIn and Facebook
As Meryl wrote a few days ago, LinkedIn and Facebook are excellent business networking tools. Both sites offer useful ways of connecting…
Read MoreVid-Biz: thisMoment, Deadline Hollywood, Qik
thisMoment Raises $3 Million; service lets users combine their photos and videos with other publisher-licensed content to create shareable “moments.” (Digital Media…
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