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NFL inks multi-year partnership with Twitter to show more videos in your feed

The NFL and Twitter are teaming up again to deliver more football-related content to your feed. Starting this season, the… Read More

Eventbrite partners with Tagboard to help event organizers highlight social media chatter

Eventbrite and Tagboard are teaming up to help event organizers find and display social media posts. Eventbrite, which helps people organize… Read More

Startup Spotlight: ActionSprout helps non-profits boost Facebook engagement

Non-profit organizations have a tall order. Getting people to engage, donate, and volunteer their time without concrete compensation is no easy… Read More

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Facebook tweaks News Feed to address fears of missing friends’ content

Facebook is rolling out three updates to its News Feed that, combined, could make it easier to see more of what… Read More

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Say what? Twitter improves feature that adds commentary to retweets

People who want to add their own thoughts to retweets now have more room to do so thanks to a… Read More

Starbucks concludes first step in ‘Race Together’ campaign after facing social media backlash

Howard Schultz says he is not backing down from his goal of making Starbucks a place where America discusses race, even after… Read More

Updated: TweetDeck suffers brief lunchtime outage

People hoping to spend their lunch hour using TweetDeck are in for a rude surprise this afternoon. Some users are… Read More

Seattle Police Dept.’s new social media policy cracks down on officers’ personal posts

Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole issued a new social media policy today for police officers and other department employees —… Read More

The one way social media is stressing you out — and why you should let it

Of all the ways we think using social media is stressing us out, only one is real, according to a… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Ripple helps surface local community buzz with viral content-sharing app

It’s not hard to recognize when a post or video has gone viral. You’ll likely see it several times on… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Deehubs uses building walls for social media platform

Social media is often disparaged as the playground of narcissists or politically self-righteous relatives we try to avoid. But while we could… Read More

Facebook improves search to help users find specific posts by friends

Remember that one time your friend posted about a killer bar in New York? Going back and finding that post… Read More

Twitter will start tracking which apps you have installed, starting today

Love the apps installed on your phone? Twitter wants to know all about them. The social networking company plans to… Read More

Seattle startup Rival IQ reels in $1 million to help track competitors on social media

Rival IQ wants to help organizations make better sense of information, while also keeping close tabs on the competition. And… Read More

How online scammers created a fake identity using little more than my picture

I am not the me that others think I should be. Especially if you judge my identity by those who… Read More

Gamergate: The Internet as a weapon of mass destruction

What is Gamergate? Most folks outside the games industry are understandably confused by what appears to be an internal dispute… Read More

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From AIDS to Ebola: In rumor control, only the tech changes

As a species, we don’t seem to get any smarter about rumors and misinformation – even if our technology evolves.… Read More

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Venuelabs unveils AboutLocal to help merchants monitor social media chatter

Seattle startup Venuelabs today unveiled AboutLocal, a new service that helps merchants listen to what is being said about them… Read More

Seattle startup Snap Skout changes name to Tack, turns popular Facebook posts into online ads

Seattle startup Snap Skout has changed its name to Tack and launched a new product that helps small businesses turn… Read More

The Boston marathon bombing: Finding fact from fiction on Twitter during disasters

Social media platforms are powerful resources during disasters, but important messages can easily be drowned out in 140 misinformed characters.… Read More

Finding a good way to share really bad news on social media

I’m about to overshare on sharing. I have good reason. In mid-June, my wife Dee Dee was diagnosed with breast… Read More

Social media manager Hootsuite raises $60 million at valuation near $1 billion

Hootsuite, the Vancouver, B.C.-based startup that helps organizations better manage social media efforts, has pulled in another $60 million in… Read More

Facebook pushes newsy content higher in News Feed with new tweaks

Want to keep up with what’s happening in the world? Facebook’s News Feed will soon be a better place to… Read More

Nuking Facebook: 30 days later, the fallout

A month ago I did the unthinkable. I quit Facebook. There’s a lot you might learn from my experience, even… Read More

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Simply Measured cuts 10% of staff in ‘course correction’ to set up next phase of growth

Seattle social media analytics startup Simply Measured cut 15 employees, or 10 percent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring… Read More

Driving while tweeting: Airbiquity updates Choreo in-car system with hands-free Twitter integration

Airbiquity has updated its Choreo in-car services platform to enable hands-free integration with Twitter, so that drivers can keep track of what’s… Read More

The problem with the police’s plea to ‘Tweet Smart’

Considering this week’s events in Ferguson, Missouri, isn’t it smartest for the public to tweet more real-time police activity in some… Read More

Get ready for video ads in Twitter

As a part of its ongoing quest to monetize its social networking service, Twitter announced Tuesday that it’s rolling out Promoted… Read More

Twitter beats expectations with $250M in revenue, but user numbers disappoint

Twitter announced today that it brought in $250 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2014, up more than… Read More

Facebook takes a shot at Twitter with new content aggregator for journalists

Post by FB Newswire.   Today, Facebook unveiled FB Newswire, a service designed to help journalists find up-to-the-minute information about… Read More

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