Alibaba pushes into social networking with Weibo investment
(Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group, which has been trying to break into the social networking market, has acquired an 18 percent stake in web portal Sina Corp's microblogging service Weibo for about $586 million. Sina has also

How social communities are shaping the future of established brands
Social is a serious business, judging by the conversations that took place last week in San Francisco at Lithium's LiNC conference. Brands are no longer content to have their social media conversations exist purely outside of their control in