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The stereotypical Google+ user is a male engineer, but that’s only half right. According to new research, Google+ is still definitely male-skewing, but students outnumber software engineers by a wide margin. That’s one of the most compelling bits of data … Continue reading →

Twitter has acknowledged the “Find Friends” feature on its iPhone app stores contact lists on its servers, echoing a recent controversy surrounding the Path iOS app. UPDATE: Wednesday afternoon, Apple issued a statement saying iOS apps accessing users’ contact lists … Continue reading →

Mari Smith has been deeply immersed in social media since 2007, but even before social media started to really pick up steam, she was evangelizing the idea of relationship marketing through the Internet and email for almost a decade. In … Continue reading →

A new software tool will help journalists see breaking news tweets as they are happening. The program, called Seriously Rapid Source Review, is still under development — but will act like a sieve that pull tweets from key sources currently … Continue reading →

Despite the fact that #RIPChrisBrown has become a Twitter trending topic, the hip-hop artist is alive and well Wednesday. His Twitter account seems to be wasting away, however, with all but four tweets deleted. Brown caused controversy on Twitter since … Continue reading →

Chill transformed from a Turntable.fm for video to a Pinterest for video when it launched its redesign last month. The startup completes its metamorphosis on Wednesday with a new ‘categories’ feature that looks suspiciously like Pinterest’s pinboards. Now when you … Continue reading →

Following much speculation about which Twitter user first broke the news about the death of Whitney Houston, the site has unveiled new data that indicates one member alluded to the news only seven minutes after police pronounced the singer dead. … Continue reading →

LightSquared, a planned U.S. nationwide cell carrier, has been blocked by the FCC due to the interference its signal causes to GPS devices. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, or NTIA, announced late Tuesday that LightSquared’s network can result in … Continue reading →

Taylor Hulyk is the social media director at re:group, a marketing agency in downtown Ann Arbor, Mich. You can follow her on Twitter @taylorhulyk. While social media can perplex a single business unit, imagine the challenges and multidimensional complications that … Continue reading →

The former CEO of Sun Microsystems has reemerged in the tech world — this time at the helm of a seven-employee startup rather than a 28,000-employee technology company. Jonathan Schwartz announced his new venture, CareZone, on Wednesday. The startup is … Continue reading →