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Google+ Goes to Work August 29, 2012 Google is looking at its enterprise customers with greater integration of Google+ and Google Apps. On Wednesday the search giant introduced a preview of how Google+ features have been optimized for workplace users with specific integration of Google Apps and Gmail.

Twitter Tosses Tumblr Out of the Friend-Finding Circle August 24, 2012 Weeks after removing its find-friends feature from Instagram, Twitter has done the same to blogging service Tumblr. Twitter's already changed the rules for app developers in version 1.1 of its API, which is coming soon. Both parties took a low-key approach when asked to comment.

Twitter Founders Debut 2 New Channels for Speaking Up Online August 15, 2012 Twitter cofounders Biz Stone and Evan Williams unveiled two new ventures this week, and this time they aren't limiting themselves -- or users for that matter -- to 140 characters. These new projects from Obvious Corporation, the startup headed by Stone and Williams, are Medium, a publishing platform; and Branch, a Web-based discussion boar.

App.net Chases Ad-Free Social Network Dream August 14, 2012 App.net founder Dalton Caldwell watched the social Web's trajectory with admiration and then dismay over the years. From all accounts, he liked its initial promise. As it morphed into a commercialized, ad-supported ecosystem of products, however, he apparently grew disillusioned. Hence the crowd-funded campaign Caldwell has launched to build ad-free, subscriber-based rival products.

Facebook Bets on Real-Money Gambling in UK August 08, 2012 Facebook on Tuesday launched "Bingo & Slots Friendzy" -- a bingo game that uses real money -- exclusively for its members in the UK. As with all of its apps, Facebook is taking 30 percent of the revenue. Facebook has its fingers in numerous revenue-generating pies. However, social gambling could prove to be the most lucrative -- especially if it catches on in markets beyond the UK -- like the U.S.

The Cloud Privacy Illusion August 08, 2012 Privacy in the cloud may be an illusion, given the known cybersecurity risks, not to mention the laws in the U.S. and around the world that permit government agencies relatively easy access to remote data including data stored in the cloud. Of course, businesses have relied on storing data in the cloud for more than 50 years.

Facebook's Gloomy Quarter Blamed on Big Fat Mobile Problem July 27, 2012 Facebook on Thursday released its first quarterly earnings report since its monster IPO in May. During the period, Facebook reported revenues of $1.18 billion but couldn't turn a profit, losing $157 million, or eight cents a share. Investors weren't happy with what they saw. The company's stock price dove to $23.38 in after-market trading and slipped to a new 52-week low of $22.28 Friday morning.

Zynga Loses Points With Investors July 26, 2012 Zynga reported second-quarter earnings lower than expected Wednesday, sending its stock sinking as much as 40 percent Thursday morning. The maker of popular social games such as "FarmVille" and "Words With Friends" reported a net loss of more than $22.8 billion, or 3 cents per share. Facebook was partially to blame for its higher-than-expected losses, Zynga said.

Facebook Growth May Have Hit a Wall July 18, 2012 Facebook shares fell on Tuesday, as the social network faces problems adding new users in multiple markets. The number of users on Facebook in the United States actually slipped by 1.1 percent, according to a new report from Capstone Investments. Facebook has seen phenomenal growth since its inception in 2004, and last reported having more than 900 million users.

YouTube: All the News That's Fit to Video July 17, 2012 The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has released a study that suggests television news needs to revamp its approach to how it uses videos to support its reporting. The study found that YouTube has become a major news source -- in particular, for eyewitness videos -- that could one day rival traditional TV news broadcasts.

Is Facebook Flatlining? June 23, 2012 2012 is not shaping up to be a good year for Facebook. There was its disaster of an IPO, of course. Also, a number of reports have been turning out that illustrate one or another of Facebook's weaknesses. The latest is from comScore, which reported Facebook's U.S. user numbers for May. Compared to its traffic

IOC's Love-Hate Relationship With Social Media Could Reach Olympic Proportions June 20, 2012 With the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics, London will be the first city to have hosted the modern games of three Olympics. It will also be the first Olympics to embrace social media, as well as being the first to actually step in and place limitations on how said media can be used. For example, the IOC has no problem with photo-sharing, as long as it isn't done for financial gain.

Facebook Kills Credits, Starts Up Subscriptions June 20, 2012 Facebook has changed its payment system, doing away with its Credits program as well as allowing app developers to offer subscription billing. Facebook currently sells in-app purchases for Credits -- digital tokens that allowed users to buy virtual goods within games or apps. But the company found that Credits didn't catch on as a Facebook currency, and many developers introduced their own virtual coinage.

Google Signals YouTube's Free MP3 Ride Is Over June 20, 2012 YouTube's attorneys have sent a cease-and-desist letter to YouTube-mp3 demanding that it stop allowing users to extract audio clips from YouTube videos in order to copy them onto personal devices. YouTube-mp3 is a highly user-friendly service. All a user must do is enter a video's URL, and the audio is generated within moments.

Zynga Heads for Pitsville June 13, 2012 Zynga's share price dropped to a record low after an analyst's research note revealed that its usage declined in May due to players migrating to mobile platforms. At close of business on Tuesday, the stock had dropped to $4.98 per unit, the lowest level since its December initial public offering at $10 per share.

LinkedIn Breach Blamed on Rusty Security June 07, 2012 LinkedIn has reported that some of its users' passwords have been stolen and published on the Internet. The company is withholding details, including exactly how many passwords were compromised. Members with accounts associated with the compromised passwords will find that their LinkedIn account password is no longer valid and will have to be reset.

Google Slurps Up Meebo to Get More Social June 05, 2012 Google has acquired social networking site Meebo, a possible bid to sharpen the search giant's social networking acumen. The deal has been the subject of rumors for about a month, after AllThingsD reported the two companies were in talks. Meebo confirmed the acquisition Monday. The companies didn't divulge details regarding the final price.

Facebook Asks Users 'Yay or Nay?' on New Privacy Policies June 04, 2012 Facebook is opening its proposed policy changes to a vote, inviting users to review and approve or disapprove of the newly revised documents. The social network will consider results binding if 30 percent or more of its active user base participates.

Beyond the Blame Game: Can Facebook Be Fixed? May 26, 2012 The honeymoon is over for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. In fact, it ended before it began. Facebook's long-awaited and much-hyped IPO is just over a week old, and the blame game is on as the company has lost 16 percent of its value since the initial offering. Wall Street's take on Facebook has gone from jubilant to jaundiced.

Pinterest: $1.5B Worth of Virtual Push Pins May 17, 2012 The image-based social networking site Pinterest has raised $100 million in a financing round, and this brings the value of the company to around $1.5 billion, an unnamed source told All Things D. Rakuten, one of Japan's biggest online retail operators, led the round of financing. It was joined by a group of investors including venture-capital firms FirstMark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.