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To Combat Creepiness, WhosHere Launches In-App Video Chat

Mike Isaac in Social May 23, 2012 at 3:35 pm PT

Will Thompson’s Ouster Mean a Yahoo-Facebook Patent Settlement, Too?

Mike Isaac in News May 13, 2012 at 11:00 am PT

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Yahoo Folds Up Livestand, Its Would-Be Flipboard Killer

Peter Kafka in Media on May 25 at 12:46 pm PT

Yahoo has pulled the plug on Livestand, its iPad/tablet news app. Yahoo rolled out the app last fall, and positioned it as competitor to apps like Flipboard and Zite. But the app never got any traction, and has been on the chopping block for much of 2012.

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Fab.com Ditches Google+ in Favor of Pinterest

Lauren Goode in News on May 16 at 5:26 am PT

Fab.com, the shopping Web site that raised $40 million late last year in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz, has revamped its site to highlight more social features, including the ability to filter its live shopping feed by category, buy straight from the feed and see what Facebook friends are buying. Fab has also removed its Google+ button in favor of a Pinterest pin. The company claims four million members in the 10 months since its launch.

Bing Redesigns to Split Out Details and Social Into Their Own Panes

Liz Gannes in News on May 10 at 10:00 am PT

Microsoft today is changing up its Bing search interface to separate out a lot of the information it had previously packed directly into the core list of search results.

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Google Revamps Google+ for iPhone

Lauren Goode in News on May 9 at 1:23 pm PT

Google has launched an updated version of Google+ for iPhone, with larger profile pics, optical cues, a more prominent “+1” atop the news stream and other visual enhancements to create a more eye-friendly app. Google+ app users can also sync photos from their iPhones to a Google+ album, use mobile “Hangouts” to video chat with friends and view a “Nearby” news feed to see status updates from people around the same location.

Start-Up Domo Goes 100 Percent More Social Starting Today

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on May 8 at 1:22 pm PT

Business intelligence start-up Domo Technologies is today requiring all of its employees to boost their involvement on social media platforms as part of a huge eight-week case study.

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In Wake of Instagram Acquisition, Twitpic Launches iPhone App

Mike Isaac in Social on May 7 at 6:46 pm PT

Despite having been founded four years ago, Twitpic only launched its first free iPhone application on Monday, complete with basic photo editing tools and comments section. The app debuts as competition increasingly heats up in the mobile photo-sharing space, intensified by Facebook’s recent $1 billion acquisition of similar photo-sharing service Instagram.

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Why Google Is Not Going Away

Ian Lurie, CEO, Portent, Inc. in Voices on May 3 at 3:15 pm PT

Google isn’t just a fun toy.

Virtual Graffiti App Wallit Now Lets Users Create Their Own Walls

Lauren Goode in Product News on May 3 at 4:52 am PT

The new version of Wallit lets users write their thoughts on virtual “walls” at home, at parties or in the office. (Just make sure your boss isn’t using the app.)

What Kind of Digital Consumer Are You?

Lauren Goode in Media on April 16 at 11:55 am PT

Most people now consider themselves “digital device adopters.” But what’s your digital personality? IBM’s latest study aims to find the answer.

TripAdvisor Plays the Kevin Bacon Game to Make Reviews More Social (Sort Of)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 11 at 9:00 am PT

Its app is one of the Top 25 on Facebook; now TripAdvisor is adding an even deeper level of integration on its homepage, surfacing more relevant reviews by using a wider circle of friends.