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Amid rumors that Twitter is considering pursuing another round of venture funding, the microblogging site's co-founder Evan Williams said his company has "a lot of money in the bank," and that its advertising efforts are paying off better than expected.

In its latest attempt to get users to spend more time on its website, Yahoo has overhauled its free email service with new features that debut Wednesday. Email will be twice as fast, with easier picture and video viewing and the ability to "tweet" directly from Yahoo email to Twitter.

About once every two weeks a worker at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston gets flagged by a team of about a dozen monitors for violating the hospital's strict policy on social media. The policy prohibits employees from doing such things as griping about having to go to work on their Facebook...

If saving money is an item that's always on your shopping list, we have a few Twitter handles to add to your "following" list. Deal websites have been using Twitter to alert followers to big discounts on limited quantity items, and now Twitter is getting into the deal-sharing business with the...

CNN firing Octavia Nasr over a questionable Tweet is the latest high-profile controversy regarding social media. The dust-ups show the difficulties many corporate cultures have as their employees embrace new ways of communicating.

New York Times standards editor Phil Corbett advises the paper's staff not to use the word "tweet" as a verb or noun, says The Awl.

The Twitter account known as @BPGlobalPR has more than 135,000 followers and has raised thousands of dollars for cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. But more importantly for founder "Leroy Stick," it's a place for people to creatively express their anger.

The Library of Congress recently made headlines by announcing an unusual acquisition: every public tweet ever sent on Twitter. Cleverly, it made the announcement by Twitter -- and the interest brought the library's servers to a standstill. For all that, the IT guys in charge of keeping every tweet...

Perhaps you've heard the one about the guy who sent a single "tweet" and got a job? It's pretty entertaining, but it's no joke. Freelance graphic designer Hal Thomas did just that in response to an ad posted by BFG Communications. The ad requested job candidates apply for the position with one...

There's an old saying: "Fish where the fish are." That's exactly the approach big brands are taking as the era of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube transforms how companies engage with consumers, especially the youth market. Case in point: Coca Cola (KO). The beverage giant is taking a deep dive into...