social networking

Google+ Android App All Dolled Up and Ready to Hangout

Bonnie Cha in Product News on May 24 at 11:29 am PT

The Google+ app for Android finally gets an update, and it’s got a feature that might make iPhone users jealous.

Even as Settlement Hopes Appear, Facebook Blames Shoddy Checking in Answer to Yahoo Patent-Fraud Claim

Kara Swisher in News on May 16 at 3:13 pm PT

Yahoo’s dog ate its homework, says Facebook.

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GM to Stop Advertising on Facebook

Sharon Terlep, Suzanne Vranica and Shayndi Raice, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 15 at 12:44 pm PT

General Motors Co. plans to stop advertising on Facebook after the company’s marketing executives determined their paid ads had little impact on consumers, people familiar with the matter said — a move that comes as more companies question the effectiveness of advertising on the social networking site.

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Web Sites Use DNA to Create Family Trees

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 15 at 5:01 am PT

Who’s your daddy? Now a Web site may know for sure.

Leave the Gun. Take the Cannoli: It’s Ring-Kissing Time for Ross at Yahoo’s All-Hands Meeting.

Kara Swisher in News on May 14 at 7:12 pm PT

I’m gonna make you an interim CEO offer you can’t refuse.

Investors Told Facebook IPO Will Be in $34 to $38 Price Range

Kara Swisher in News on May 14 at 4:52 pm PT

Woah, Nelly.

Meet the Man I Call “The Hair”: The Video Stylings of Yahoo’s Newest CEO Ross Levinsohn

Kara Swisher in Media on May 13 at 12:03 pm PT

Here he is in living color!

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How Facebook Could Trip Up Investors

Ben Levisohn, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 11 at 12:23 pm PT

As social-networking giant Facebook prepares to sell stock to the public for the first time, money managers are mobbing investor roadshows and deluging the deal’s underwriters with requests for as many shares as they can get their hands on. Ordinary investors, however, would be better off waiting until some of the buzz dies down, experts say.

Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential Future Conflicts (Or Closer Cooperation)

Kara Swisher in News on May 7 at 1:37 pm PT

There is a growing feeling that the social communications companies are on a product collision course, with a possible troubled or perhaps more attractive result.

They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don’t They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a Much Stronger Board.

Kara Swisher in News on May 5 at 9:33 am PT

While many across the blogosphere — including some very clever tweets — called for the head of Scott Thompson tout de suite, that’s just not going to happen. At least for now. And here’s why.