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Google+ Updates Android App, Adds New Design And Other Features
Social Learning Company Grockit Closes $7M Funding Round
Social learning company Grockit has closed its $7 million Series D funding round. The round was led by Atlas Venture, a previous investor in the company. Returning investors Benchmark Capital and Integral Capital Partners took part in the round as did new investors NewSchools Venture Fund and GSV Capital. This brings Grockit's total funding to $24 million. Grockit... Read more » INFOGRAPHIC: How Companies View Social Advertising
It’s no secret that social advertising is a hugely popular way for companies to promote themselves. Social networks are constantly developing new and more effective and appealing ways of advertising on their services, like how Twitter moved ads into users' timelines and how Facebook launched a new ad program targeted at smaller businesses. It’s hard to say... Read more » Foursquare Updates BlackBerry App, Adds Notification Tray And More
Foursquare has rolled out an update to its BlackBerry app. The app now includes the notification tray, better settings and account management and more. The notification tray is a feature that has been available on the Android and iPhone apps for several months. The feature keeps you up to date with all of your friends' activity on the location-based service. It... Read more » Spotify And Boxee Let You Access Streaming Music Service From Your TV
Spotify and Boxee have teamed up to let you access the social music streaming service though your TV using the media center. The Boxee Box allows you to watch many of your favorite movies and shows that are online through your TV. The Spotify integration will now allow you to listen to your favorite music through Boxee too. There is a caveat here, in that you'll... Read more » Teacher Under Investigation After Calling Students Inbred On Facebook
Whether or not teachers should have public Facebook accounts is a much debated subject and many teachers are forbidden to become friends with students, which makes a lot of sense in certain cases but not in others. For every teacher who uses the service to benefit and help their students, there are handfuls that abuse it. Recently, a governing body of a primary... Read more » Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker Get Into Screaming Match Over Spotify, Facebook Partnership
Apparently not all is well in the world of Facebook and Spotify’s seemingly awesome partnership. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who launched Spotify, had a huge public argument in a Hollywood nightclub about their new joint venture. According to the New York Post, the pair got into a drunken argument about Facebook’s... Read more » Boy Arrested After Friend Posts On Facebook Wall Looking For Drugs
Police monitor Facebook – that’s just something that every drug wielding, underage partygoer needs to know. Sadly, they don’t. Teens are constantly putting way, way too much information on the social networking site and are completely shocked when they actually get in trouble. Part of the reason many people hide Wall posts from the public is because you can... Read more » Bit.ly Launches Social Search Platform, Reputation Monitoring Feature
URL shortening service Bit.ly has launched 2 brand new products: social search and reputation monitoring. The reputation monitoring system has been built on top of the social search platform. Bit.ly has been analyzing all of the URLs it has shortened to discover the most viral content on the Web -- pages that are shared and clicked on by a large number of people... Read more » INFOGRAPHIC: How College Students Use Social Networking
Social networking is extremely popular in colleges across the country. After all, Facebook started at one, right? Social networking has changed everything from the way students learn to how they meet new people and even date. While studies are mixed on the benefits of using social networks in an educational setting, we can all agree that students will not be stopping... Read more » Facebook Sued Over Tracking Cookies
A woman from Louisiana is suing Facebook over claims that the social network uses tracking cookies to collect and store information about users' Web browsing habits. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Mississippi on behalf of Brooke Rutledge, a resident of Layfayette County. The lawsuit -- which is seeking class-action status for millions of Facebook... Read more » 
