Facebook unveils social search engine “Graph Search” with Bing partnership

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Who are your friends that live in Seattle? Which ones of those like the Seattle Seahawks? What restaurants have your friends gone to lately, and which ones have they liked the most? Where are the photos of my friends taken in Paris? Which ones have the most likes? These are the questions that Facebook’s new “Graph… Read More…

Myspace is back, but can it return to social media stardom?

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Myspace is back, and it’s nothing like it was before. After going through invite-only beta testing in July and previewing the site a few months ago, Myspace is officially open to the public now. And I have to say I’m impressed. Music is the new focus of Myspace. That’s evident with the always-embedded music player… Read More…

LinkedIn reaches 200 million user milestone, adding two new users per second

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Some numbers out of the LinkedIn camp today highlight how successful the social network is doing. The company has reached the 200 million user milestone across more than 200 countries and 19 languages. It is adding new users at a rate of two per second, which equals 172,800 registrations per day. “This milestone is more than… Read More…

Foolish on Facebook: Teen arrested after posting about drunk driving

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There are certain things you probably shouldn’t post on social media. Some examples: angry insults directed at your boss, drunk pictures of yourself from last night, your social security number. But Jacob Cox-Brown may have shared something much worse than any of that. So bad, in fact, that the 18-year-old Oregon teenager spent his New… Read More…

Venture-backed IPOs and mergers decline in 2012 after Facebook’s sluggish debut

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Forty nine venture-backed companies completed initial public offerings during 2012, a slight decline over 2011 when 51 companies made the plunge. Nonetheless, the amount of money raised through the offerings — in part driven by Facebook’s big offering from May — mushroomed in 2012 to $21.4 billion. That was double 2011′s haul and the biggest… Read More…

Year in review: Vote for the top Seattle tech story of 2012

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It’s been quite the year in Seattle technology. Amazon.com kept growing. Microsoft kept transforming. And several startups raised huge rounds of cash as they looked to become the next Microsoft or Amazon. In case your head was filled with too many Tweets and Facebook posts to keep up, here’s a handy look back at the biggest… Read More…

$100 to send a Facebook message? Social network’s ‘test’ goes to the extreme

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Facebook is conducting “a small experiment” that gives selected users the option to pay to send a message to the primary inbox of another Facebook user even if they aren’t “friends.” But how much would they have to pay, exactly? In its post announcing the experiment, the company didn’t say what it would charge for the messages,… Read More…

“Amazon” cracks yearly most-searched list for first time

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According to what’s people are searching for, Amazon is gaining popularity. For the first time ever, the term “Amazon” cracked Experian’s yearly list of the top-10 most-searched terms in the United States. Out of the top 1,000 search terms for 2012, “Facebook” accounted for 4.13 percent of all searches and was the top term for the… Read More…

From Apple Maps to Oprah’s iPad: The 10 biggest tech debacles of 2012

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Ah, the holiday season. A great time to sit back and reflect on some of the most memorable moments of the past year — mislabeled maps, inappropriate dance routines, social media missteps, bungled IPOs and so much more. Yes, it’s time for an annual GeekWire tradition, our Tech Triumphs and Debacles of the Year. We’ll… Read More…

Calm down, people: Instagram isn’t selling your souls

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One of the bigger tech stories going on right now is the whirlwind Instagram created with its new polices that claim the right to sell your photos without payment or notification. Or at least that’s what thousands of angry people thought. However, it looks like there was a little misinterpretation. The Verge pointed this out… Read More…