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Social media: Is it the new search? San Francisco Business Times - by Patrick Hoge Send this story to a friend Spencer Brown Gigya’s Yovanno pushes “social optimization.” Facebook hitting 500 million members this month, as rumors swirl that Google is readying its own social networking venture, shows how the tech world’s center of gravity is …

A racy photograph of Georgian economy minister Vera Kobalia, 28, said to be taken at a Vancouver strip club, is creating international media furore.

While the number of Chinese social networking site users has been steadily increasing, growth rates in the crowded market appear to have slowed, with some firms losing users and others shutting down all together.

Reporting from Washington - Anyone wondering how Christiane Amanpour, novice to Washington, is going to make it in this “town” , can rest assured.

Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant.

Facebook Inc won a legal fight on Wednesday over claims its hugely popular social networking website infringed a patent owned by Leader Technologies, but the little-known company said it would ask the judge to set aside the verdict.

GOOGLE Inc has held talks with gaming companies as it looks to develop a new service to compete with social networking website Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

ABC programming chief Stephen McPherson has abruptly resigned from the network after a six-year tenure in which the network aired such provocative series as “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost” but ended last season in third place among the big four networks.

Philippine police tracked down a suspect in a series of grisly robberies and murders with the help of his Facebook account, officials said Tuesday.

MySpace plans “rock and roll” relaunch. Australian traffic to MySpace has tanked by almost 50 per cent in the past year as its owner, News Corp, announces plans to relaunch the site to target a younger audience.

A networking group for Placer County-area professionals is gathering momentum as more job seekers turn to one another for guidance and support.

July 13, 2010. From left, OneVietnam team members James Bao and Paul Pham , plan OneVietnam’s launch at Caffe Trieste in San Jose.

Hollywood celebrities, including George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore, have urged children to stop using social networking sites.

A church minister is to conduct the first communion service on Twitter, the social networking site.

Online tools and services such as Twitter and Facebook create a social space that encourages informality, rapid responses and the sort of conversation that typically takes place between friends in contexts that are either private or public-private, like the street, pub or cafe.