BROWSING: Social

On this week's episode of Well, technically... prominent Tech Analyst Carolina Milanesi discusses her new company The Heart of Tech, which aims to help technology providers in two key areas that should be on the minds of every tech company: education and diversity.

Verizon introduced a new series to amplify the voices of the future In early June, a visibly impassioned Hans Vestberg made a commitment of $10 million to organizations which work for equality and social justice in response to the protests against police brutality that swept across...

Aryaka CEO: 'What’s really going on inside your communities?' Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, protesters took the streets, demanding answers and justice. In response, an unprecedented number of companies, from across a variety of industries, released statements of...

The combination of mobile, cloud, social, big data and the "Internet of things" is driving company efforts from many different industries, and telecom operators are in a good position to take advantage of these trends, according to Mike Riegel, IBM VP for mobile and WebSphere...

Mobile and social technologies represent a departure from the information technologies that CIOs are used to, such as ERP and CRM.  This change is one of the three fundamental questions IT leaders and CIOs are facing, according to Mark McDonald, Gartner group vice president...

"The future of computing is social, mobile, information and cloud, and companies are doing pieces of it correctly today. But where the real advantages to the vendors' side and the consumers' side or the corporate side will be when they start bringing these forces...

Looking to enhance its social business vertical, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the acquisition of Kenexa Corporation (NYSE: KNXA) yesterday. The companies have entered into a definitive agreement, under which IBM will pay a cash price of $46 per share or a net price of...

Mobile, cloud, social and information are the four pillars of what Gartner calls a "nexus force." These topics will drive business in coming years, and both chief executives officers (CEOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) need to develop strategies focusing on them. To continue...

Mobile apps that notify you when something or someone of interest is nearby, offline, are seeing a big wave of excitement leading into this weekend's kick-off of the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. Apps like Sonar, EchoEcho and most prominently Highlight. Why...

Cloud, social, mobility and an explosion in information were pointed by Gartner as the new nexus of forces that are creating a necessity to look different to the business. The trends identified by consultant firm drive companies to re-invent themselves to become more focused...

A little while ago Google announced they had purchased the g.co domain name, and were planning to use it exclusively for linking to Google-owned sites. Their existing URL shortening service, goo.gl, was to remain for user-generated links to any URL they pleased.

Google's latest service and social network du jour, Google+, has today had a major update to add games to its already-impressive repertoir.

Most of the UK has been transfixed by the rioting and looting that has been taking over our capital for the past few days - with many of the media pointing the finger at Twitter and BBM. Today London's citizens showed that social media is indeed capable of organising large groups of people - but for the right reasons.

BlackBerry may be down and out, but it still has clout, or Klout, rather, with the phone’s aficionados scoring higher than either Android or iPhone users on average.

We haven't heard much from Twitter recently. Facebook has been in the limelight for reasons both good and bad, and Google+ burst onto the scene to an overwhelmingly positive reception, but Twitter have been fairly quiet since announcing their photo-hosting service a few months ago.

Two top social apps are apparently joining forces, with news Groupon and Foursquare are teaming up with a daily deal partnership. Location based social app Foursquare has long been trying to make some sort of “deal” breaker into the industry, and how better than to...

Social game maker Zynga, whose titles include the hugely popular FarmVille, CityVille and FrontierVille Facebook games, is looking to take its first big step outside the giant social network's walls in a deal with Chinese social site Tencent.

Business-skewed social network LinkedIn today launched a new service which could become a key future revenue stream in the notoriously hard-to-monetise social space.

Even after publicly declaring on several occasions that it had no interest in facial recognition, Google has gone out and bought itself a –yes - facial recognition software company by the name of PittPatt. Pittsburgh based PittPatt, which emerged from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute,...

Jumbuck, an Australian VAS firm, is trying to translate the love affair people have with their phones into real life social relationships. “The mobile phone is a device that has a wonderful intimate relationship with the users,” said David Gibbs, the firm’s CEO, noting that...

Although the world and his dog are crooning about how wonderful Google+ is, we shouldn't forget that the king of that particular hill is still - by a very long way - Facebook. The king of the social networks currently boasts around three quarters of a billion users, and seems to be finally cracking one of the biggest nut of them all - the FTSE 100.

The Google Plus Social Network has already managed to rope over 10 million members into its circles, Google CEO Larry Page said Thursday. Despite launching only two weeks ago on June 28, by invitation only, the service – which is still officially in Beta –...

A shocking new survey has revealed that “more than half of parents snoop on their children’s online activity.”

Facebook has ‘friended’ yet another Googler by hiring Tom Stocky, the Mountain View firm’s director of product management for search, client and infrastructure products. “I work at Facebook, where I serve as a director of product,” Stocky announced on his newly updated online profile, though...