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Quepasa Pays Myyearbook $100 Million in Merger Agreement
Quepasa, the social network with its sights firmly set on a Latino audience has just…
Social Media Inside the Courtroom
Last week, what Time Magazine has called “the first major murder trial of the social-media…
Underfunded Scientists Hit Up the Web for Cash (Successfully)
Crowdsourcing is nothing new, but as a way of funding investigative research at a public…
Silicon Valley Roars Up an Arms Race for Washington Power
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has just nabbed Larry Summers for the board of Square, his…
Twitter and Facebook the New Nielsen?
Twitter rankings and Facebook Likes have been all the rage for some time now. If…
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American Grad Student from Georgia Fesses Up to Authoring “Gay Girl in Damascus” Blog
Writing from Istanbul, Turkey, the American grad student Tom MacMaster, currently studying at the University…
Lady Gaga and Eric Schmidt Invest in Backplane, a New Social Network
The new entertainment- and sports-focused social network in not up and running quite yet, but…
Shaquille O’Neal Passes the Ball to Tout, a San Francisco Startup
Everyone knows Shaquille O’Neal is the proud owner of very many special things, enviable height,…
Police Beat Crowd-Sourced by Bay Area Civilians
This week saw a very peculiar unfolding of a real-life crime drama in the San…