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Facebook tests enterprise product with a few companies
Facebook is finally getting into the office game. According to multiple reports, on Wednesday morning the company launched a pilot of its long-rumored…
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As we lay 2014 to rest, we’re topping our hats to some of the social media crazes that came along with it. Messaging.…
Read MoreBebo attempts the near-impossible: A comeback
Remember the popular ’90s social networking app Bebo? Yeah, me neither. The Facebook predecessor, which dominated British social networking for awhile, sold…
Read MoreSay goodbye to text in Grindr. It’s embracing the visual web
The new Grindr is all about that face. The company redesigned its iOS and Android app this month, abolishing text from a person’s…
Read MoreCheck out Nextdoor’s crowdsourced map for holiday lights
If you wanted to know where all the best holiday spots are in town, this might be your year. Social networking application Nextdoor…
Read MoreThe next WeChat is hiding in Canada and eyeing the U.S.
Four years since its launch, Kik is positioning itself as America’s version of WeChat, the messaging behemoth of China. It believes it has the right product (text messaging, the old-fashioned kind) and the right audience (almost half of U.S. youth) to become a proper mobile first platform.…
Read MoreMeet Plague: An app plumbing the depths of viral networking
Plague is weird, it's a bit scary, but it's also an utterly fascinating networking concept. It uses the virus not just as a metaphor but as the underlying model for spreading information between devices.…
Read MoreThe three most compelling questions (and answers) in Zuckerberg’s AMA
CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his thoughts on the forced Messenger download, Facebook getting boring, and ebola.…
Read MoreNeighborhood social networking app Nextdoor’s new safety feature makes it a must-use
The police and firefighters that cover your particular neighborhood may be using Nextdoor to warn you about safety concerns.…
Read MoreWhy is “anti-Facebook” network Ello popping up on your social feeds now?
Ello is getting its moment in the spotlight after Facebook alienated a large swath of its LGBTQ user base.…
Read MoreMail.ru now controls most of the Russian social networking market, after buying out VKontakte
The deal also means the end of a nasty legal spat between VK founder Pavel Durov, Mail.ru and erstwhile stakeholder UCP.…
Read MoreIs Facebook’s Slingshot already the new Poke?
Less than two months after launching and Facebook's buzzed-about Slingshot messaging app has already dropped off the downloads chart. Its trajectory mirrors that of another high profile, failed Facebook effort to combat Snapchat: Poke.…
Read MoreWhatsApp becomes a virtual carrier in Germany with the help of E-Plus
E-Plus is offering up a cheap prepaid SIM-card plan that exempts WhatsApp traffic from its data plan, effectively creating a mobile service that leans primarily on over-the-top messaging for communication.…
Read MoreFireChat sees 100K app downloads a day with a huge uptake overseas
Open Garden's new anonymous, hyperlocal messaging app is sparking a lot of interest around the world, rising to the top of the iTunes social networking charts in several countries.…
Read MoreTurkish court orders lifting of Twitter blockade, for now at least
Good news for Turkish Twitter(s twtr) users: an Ankara court has ordered the lifting of a blockade on the social network, according…
Read MoreQuantified canine startup Whistle starts building a dog-centered social network
Whistle started out selling a dog collar tag that monitored your pets activity, but it's trying to evolve its platform into more than just a means of measuring walks.…
Read MoreWill “disease-like” Facebook lose 80 percent of users by 2017? Don’t make me laugh
Facebook has risen and it may fall, but using a disease analogy is tenuous at best. That hasn't stopped a piece of non-peer-reviewed modeling by Princeton researchers from, er, going viral though.…
Read MoreTango hits 150M users as it ramps up its social engagement platform
Tango is retooling its over-the-top communications business around social networking and providing communications services for game makers. It credits that approach to its recent surge in growth, adding 50 million new users in six months.…
Read MorePublisher Sourcebooks and social writing site Wattpad team up to bring Wattpad authors into print
Social writing site Wattpad and independent publisher Sourcebooks announced a broad partnership in which Sourcebooks will traditionally publish some Wattpad authors and will promote its own authors on Wattpad's site.…
Read MoreQuantia snags $10M for social networking site for doctors
QuantiaMD, one of a handful of companies targeting doctors with an online social networking service, has raised $10 million in a Series B round.…
Read MoreWhat can we learn from patients? Ex-Googler debuts health social network to find out
Google's former Chief Health Strategist Roni Zeiger has launched Smart Patients, an online community for cancer patients.…
Read More“First do no harm”: My interview with Amazon and Goodreads on the future of Goodreads
In an interview Thursday, Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler and Amazon's VP of Kindle content Russ Grandinetti stressed that Goodreads will not change for the worse following its acquisition by Amazon.…
Read MoreEven elite schools have fundraising challenges, and Evertrue gets $5.25M to help
TechStars-backed EverTrue has raised $5.25 million to help colleges and prep schools build alumni networking mobile apps.…
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