Social Networks

Foursquare has released a new Windows 8 app in the Windows store that promises dividends for both Microsoft and the social network itself. The benefit for Microsoft is the extra traffic and exposure a new app for a still-popular social network like Foursquare can deliver -- especially an app that ha...

Twitter has hired former Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard as its first head of commerce, with the goal of adding an online shopping component to its offerings. Twitter plans to provide partners with tools to more effectively offer their goods and services, perhaps then taking a commission on any tran...

Facebook on Monday reportedly began rolling out a new feature that allows multiple users to upload images to the same online photo album. Whereas previously users could upload photos only to albums they had created themselves -- with a maximum of 1,000 photos per album -- the new feature allows up t...

The hacker who uncovered a bug on Facebook earlier this week may indeed get a reward for his efforts, but not from the social network itself. After it became clear that Facebook would not pay Khalil Shreateh a bug bounty for his discovery, arguing that he had violated the site's Terms of Service, a ...

In an abrupt about-face, Instagram has begun cracking the whip over developers using "insta" and "gram" in the titles of their apps. In a letter sent to several developers earlier this week, Instagram said it had "clarified" its guidelines and determined that "use of 'INSTA' and 'GRAM' for an applic...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday launched Internet.org, a project with a goal no less lofty than to provide Internet access to everyone on the planet. With other founding members including Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung, the project aims to develop joint projects, shar...

Brazil has proposed new laws that would force e-businesses selling to Brazil-based consumers to store personal data about said customers on local servers. Google and Facebook have raised objections to the plan, saying that such requirements would, in the words of Facebook Brazil, "entail huge costs ...

Twitter on Monday unveiled a new feature that adds related headlines to embedded tweets, an addition that will help to tell the "story behind the tweet," the company said. "Starting today, you will see a new 'Related headlines' section on the permalink page of tweets that have been embedded on websi...

Facebook, which offers a bounty of $500 or more to anyone who discovers a bug in its system, has come under fire for refusing to reward an out-of-work Palestinian programmer who reported a vulnerability that let people post to strangers' accounts without authorization. The programmer, Khalil Shreate...

LinkedIn, the go-to social network for professionals, is opening its tent wider to include young people aspiring toward a career -- namely, budding college students and high school students with an eye on higher education. Specifically, the social network on Monday debuted University Pages, a sectio...