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• Phones are distractions during catch-ups

  By AAP | 23 May, 2012 08:15

  Sick of your friends tweeting during dinner or constantly texting on nights out?

• Facebook vs. Google: Who will win?

  By Christina DesMarais | 20 May, 2012 11:59

  Facebook is now officially a public company, scads of new millionaires are on a Silicon Valley spending spree, and media outlets near and far have yet to pipe down about the IPO, likely one of the most anticipated in history.

• Pakistan's block on Twitter over blasphemous content reversed

  By John Ribeiro | 21 May, 2012 13:50

  Pakistan late Sunday reversed a block on Twitter in the country over material it considered anti-Islam, the country's interior minister said.

• Unhappy diners are getting into a twitter

  By AAP | 21 May, 2012 14:01

  In the age of social media, restaurants are learning that only a twit ignores an unhappy customer.

• Facebook sets IPO share price at $US38

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 May, 2012 07:09

  With Facebook's long-anticipated IPO expected to hit on Friday morning (US time), the company has set its initial share price at $US38.

• Social media bring business, but add security quagmire

  By Ellen Messmer | 18 May, 2012 04:27

  Social media - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and so forth - has become a way of life for companies and their employees to interact with the public, but beating back the fraudsters that try to prey on customers, not to mention keeping employees from spilling sensitive data, is becoming a full-time job for many.

• Twitter will deliver weekly highlights via email

  By Cameron Scott | 15 May, 2012 10:41

  Twitter will begin delivering a weekly email digest to highlight for users the tweets they are most likely to be interested in, the company said Monday.

• Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 on sale Sunday for $400

  By Matt Hamblen | 12 May, 2012 06:11

  Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is set to go on sale at retailers nationwide Sunday for $399.99, furthering the variety of tablet sizes from the vendor.

• Microsoft Bing goes social in search war with Google

  By Sharon Gaudin | 12 May, 2012 04:25

  Microsoft's move to boost Bing's social networking feaures could finally give it an opportunity to truly take on Google's dominant search engine, analysts say.

• Twitter acquires email marketer RestEngine

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 11 May, 2012 20:29

  Twitter has acquired RestEngine, a two-and-half-year-old company that has helped social app publishers send emails based on a user's social graph, RestEngine said on Thursday.

• Bing will tap Facebook, Twitter in answering queries

  By Tim Greene | 11 May, 2012 07:26

  Microsoft is introducing a phone-a-friend feature into its Bing search engine, allowing searchers to ask their Facebook and Twitter contacts to supplement information gathered by the search engine itself.

• Twitter Japan blog post says company leaked no user data

  By Jay Alabaster | 10 May, 2012 19:50

  None of the recently leaked Twitter logins and passwords came from within the company, according to a message posted on Twitter's Japanese blog Thursday.

• Twitter success thrives on narrow focus

  By Joab Jackson | 10 May, 2012 00:37

  Those looking to build a substantial following on Twitter would do well to stick to one particular topic, rather than use Twitter to discuss a wide range of subjects, a Carnegie Mellon University researcher has advised.

• Twitter resists subpoena to release user's data without warrant

  By Jeremy Kirk | 09 May, 2012 13:04

  Twitter is contesting a court order requiring it to turn over private data on a user charged with disorderly conduct during the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York last year.

• Twitter says many leaked passwords inaccurate, duplicates

  By Jeremy Kirk | 09 May, 2012 10:14

  Many of the Twitter logins and passwords leaked on the web this week are either inaccurate or belong to accounts already suspended for spamming, the company said late Tuesday.