Alibaba buys part of popular Chinese social network Weibo
Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group acquired an 18 percent stake in web portal Sina's microblogging service Weibo in its first big move into selling advertising on China's highly competitive social networks. Sina's U.S.-listed shares surged 21

Facebook loses 1.4million UK visitors in a MONTH as users switch social media
Despite being the world's largest social network with more than a billion users, people in Facebook's biggest markets are deleting their accounts. In the last month there has been a 4.5 per cent fall in British users, according to independent data.

The Social Media Borg: A Culture of Likes
Tumblr allows you to "reblog" and Twitter allows you to "favorite" or "retweet;" each social network has its own set of tools to encourage us click our way into a digital singing of Kumbaya. These Web-based positivity tools were merely a

Social networks act as political rallying sites: report
(MENAFN - AFP) A Pew Research Center report indicated that online social networks have become political hotspots in the United States.Approximately 39 percent of US adults engaged in political activity in Internet communities during the 2012 US

Rancho Cucamonga promotes social network for neighbors
RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- City and sheriff's officials here hope residents will opt to join a new online social networking service that acts as a neighborhood watch for the 21st century. The San Francisco-based social network Nextdoor has teamed up

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