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Press Release: Myriad Launches Mobile Social Networking Services with Telefonica in Latin America

Myriad Group | April 27, 2011 | Press Release Movistar launch marks first phase of Myriad-Telefónica 5-year strategic partnership to deliver social networking to over 140 million customers in 13 countries across the Latin America region DUBENDORF-ZURICH, Switzerland – April 27, 2011 – Myriad Group AG...

Facebook facing fresh lawsuits, ownership challenge

It seems to be a sad fact of business life that if you suddenly make a ton of money, people will crawl out of the woodwork trying to take that money away through various forms of litigation. Facebook's famously meteoric rise seems to have stirred more than its fair share of lawyered-up pretenders to the Zuckerberg crown, most notably the Winklevoss twins

Facebook Landing Team transports company culture

Vancouver Sun | March 30, 2011 | Mike Swift AUSTIN, Texas - As Facebook evolves from insular Silicon Valley start-up to a global company with a necklace of offices around the planet, it is relying on a key tool to extend its unique culture - the...

Google launches +1: A ‘Like’ button for search

Google Inc. has today taken the wraps off yet another enhancement to its increasingly diverse services, the +1 button. At its core the +1 button is the same as a Facebook "Like" button, although it can be deployed anywhere on the Web, most importantly in search results.

Facebook traffic takes strange detour through China

Forbes | March 24, 2011 | Andy Greenberg If you were visiting Facebook over AT&T’s network earlier this week, your bits may have taken a mysterious path to the site’s Silicon Valley servers: one that took them through Korea and China. And if you weren’t...

Twitter reveals some birthday numbers

This week marks Twitter's fifth birthday. Since it was first launched to the public, the micro-blogging service has noticeably changed the way we broadcast, organise and digest information.

Google, Facebook rule in Southeast Asia

CNET | March 9, 2011 | John Chan According to a report by analytics firm comScore, Internet users in Southeast Asia rely more on Google than the rest of the world. In addition, out of the top 15 countries with the highest Facebook penetration, three are...

Lamebook.com in ongoing name-game legal battle with Facebook

AUSTIN-Some argue that there is little to a name, but if any of those people work in the world of the Web, they are very wrong. For companies that use either the terms “face” or “book” in a name on the...

Quepasa closes acquisition of Brazilian social game development studio

Quepasa | March 8, 2011 | Press Release Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex: QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social networkand game platform for the Latino community, has closed its acquisition of XtFt Games S/S Ltda, the owner ofsubstantially all the assets of...

Google’s Schmidt puts social media chips on Brazil and Orkut to fend off Facebook

Forbes | March 7, 2011 | Agustino Fontevecchia Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who is soon to be re-deployed as chairman after founder Larry Page takes the reins in April, gave an interview over the weekend from Buenos Aires where he gave clues as to the search-giant’s new...

LinkedIn says China has unblocked its service

BBC News | February 25, 2011 Business networking site LinkedIn says access to its services appears to have been restored in China, a day after it was blocked there. "We will continue to monitor the situation," a US spokesman for the site said. Shortly before the site...

AIS inches away from SMS focus

Bangkok Post | February 23, 2011 | Suchit Leesa-nguansuk With mobile operators moving more toward social networking and chat services, market leader Advanced Info Service (AIS) is introducing new packages aimed at cashing in on this growing demand. Somchai Lertsutiwong, the executive vice-president for marketing, said...

China networking site Renren said to plan $500 Million U.S. IPO

Bloomberg | February 20, 2011 | Serena Saitto and Brian Womack Renren.com, China’s largest social- networking service, is seeking to capitalize on strengthening demand for the nation’s Internet stocks with a U.S. initial public offering. Renren.com is preparing an IPO of about $500 million this year, according...

Twitter suspends UberMedia mobile clients

Well here's something to annoy all those Blackberry users out there - Twitter has today suspended the platform's most popular Twitter client, UberTwitter, as well as Android client Twidroyd and iPhone App UberCurrent.

Quepasa appoints Lars Fuhrken-Batista to board of directors

QuePasa | February 10, 2011 | Press Release WEST PALM BEACH, FL--(Marketwire - February 10, 2011) - Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex:QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social network and gaming platform for the Latino community, has appointed Lars Fuhrken-Batista as a director of the...

Quepasa Corporation to acquire Brazil’s XtFt Games S/S Ltda

Invest in Brazil | February 2, 2011 Quepasa Corporation Tuesday announced it is to acquire Brazil’s XtFt Games S/S Ltda. Quepasa Corporation is the creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social network for the Latino community. The firm Tuesday said it has executed a...

News Corp finally looking to ditch MySpace

It looks as though the long, torrid saga of News Corp and MySpace may finally be coming to an end. News Corp COO Chase Carey has given a long-overdue indication that they are looking to cut-and-run from the flagging social network.

LG to preinstall PapayaMobile's apps & social network on Android phones in 2011

PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in China beginning January 2011. This comes on the heels of Papaya recently releasing China-specific versions...

LG to preinstall PapayaMobile’s apps & social network on Android phones in 2011

PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in China beginning January 2011. This comes on the heels of Papaya recently releasing China-specific versions...

Myriad Group extends strategic partnership with Telefónica to bring social networking to Vivo Brazilian customer base

Myriad Group | 16 December 2010 | Press Release New deal underpins expansion of Myriad-Telefónica 5-year strategic partnership to deliver innovative social networking solutions to more than 140 million customers in 13 countries across LATAM Myriad Xumii Social Networking services to be rolled out under...

Quepasa and Sony Pictures Television Ad Sales Partner Under New Quepasa DSM Reseller Agreement

WEST PALM BEACH, FL | Marketwire | December 15, 2010 Popular Social Network for Latino Community Expands Reach of Its Social Media Advertising Platform to More Than 31 Million Latin American Households Quepasa Corporation (OTCBB:QPSA), creator and operator of the popular online social network for the...

Facebook launches Modern Messaging System, fails to set the world aflame

After months of rumours and speculation Facebook finally got round to unveiling their "Project Titan" messaging product yesterday. The new system centres around a unified inbox that deals with your IMs, SMS, email and Facebook messages, so in theory you'll only have one conversation thread for each of your contacts.

Facebook “GMail Killer” to launch Monday?

Another day, another swirling internet rumour vortex. Well, we needed something to fill the void now all that Nexus Two business is sorted out, didn't we? A few months ago we got wind of an internal Facebook product codenamed "Project Titan", which Facebook apparently refer to as their "GMail killer".