social networks

Disney is snapping up social networking games developer Playdom in a deal worth up to $563.2 million, it announced Tuesday. The transaction, will bolster Disney's digital gaming lineup and give it a greater presence on such social networking sites as Facebook and MySpace.

There's no doubt that buying a new or used car can be a stressful and confusing experience. In most cases the dealer has the upper hand when it comes to selling a car, and until you've purchased a car or two you're at a disadvantage. AutoTrader has recognized this confusion and rolled out several...

When the news broke just over 24 hours ago that a major earthquake had hit in Haiti killing thousands, downing buildings and crippling an already fragile infrastructure, news networks immediately began questioning how aid would arrive and from where. While nations got busy responding with...

Facebook and other social networking sites have developed an unusual, but perhaps unsurprising, new fan base: divorce attorneys. As more people stray into infidelity via connections made on the Internet, lawyers are profiting from the evidence left behind by all that online over-sharing.

Though promotional saturation can be the kiss of death for social media platforms, marketers can't resist them. And whether they want to admit it or not, social media sites need the marketers. This week, two top sites -- LinkedIn and Twitter -- are putting their days of purity in the past and offering new tools that meet the needs of corporate marketing departments.

Facebook looks like its worth close to $10 billion right now, based on actual transactions in the stock. The social networking site has seen its shares surge on an exchange for private companies, suggesting that the company is perceived to be headed in the right direction. Of course, private...

According to a data mining company, the old adage of being judged by the friends you keep translates easily into the digital friends you keep. Rapleaf, a social media monitoring company, claims that by analyzing public information such as the friends you have on Twitter it can assess how...

FarmVille is the most popular application on social-networking site Facebook, having attracted more than 56 million users worldwide since its introduction in June. And to what does FarmVille owe its popularity? Simply, it's addictive, according to comments by fans and users on forums across the...

So the venture capitalists have finally settled on a proper valuation for Twitter of $1 billion. This is based on a product with zero revenue and a history of struggles in figuring out how to generate revenue. I attribute this in part to the historic ambivalence of company founder and chief tech...

I wrote a post the other day about how, after talking to loads of Facebook advertisers, the social networking giant appeared to be morphing into a threat to paid search giant Google (GOOG). I recently had a long chat with Facebook's Director of Monetization Tim Kendall. He's one of the key guys in...