Social Tech Category - Page 3

Facebook’s Android app  has always been a little behind its releases for other mobile platforms, notably iOS, as Mark Zuckerberg once admitted. But with the next Android release, the official Facebook application is intended to be faster and more functional.

Ah, social networking…many people have come to enjoy being able to tell other people, including many complete strangers, about their lives and travails and hopes and successes via a few simple button presses. And if you want to serve as your own paparazzi, you’ll now have a way to make [...]

Facebook is hiring. The company’s COO Sheryl Sandberg says the company will heavily invest in engineering centers in the East Coast, and will add thousands of new employees through 2012.

Google has updated the features of Google+ Hangouts to include talking to people on regular telephones. With this, users can invite, and talk to, people on their landline or mobile numbers — no Google+ account required.

Twitter has launched a self-serve advertising platform that lets advertisers purchase “promoted” tweets and accounts. Currently available in beta, the service will soon open to the public, for direct ad spot purchases with a credit card.

If you’ve got a Sony Bravia television, or were looking to get your hands on one, then you’ll have some very good news coming up here, if you haven’t already received said good news. The good news in question is in the form of a firmware upgrade for Bravias that’s [...]

Barack Obama has just been plus-one’d, with a new page on Google+. Fans, followers and prospective voters can now visit the page for updates, and even click that little +1 button. Google has verified it to be the real thing!

While social networking mostly involves the web and mobile apps, Facebook is looking into making communication more convenient, by launching a desktop application that will offer easy access to a user’s Facebook chat and ticker.

For Facebook, mobile is the next frontier. The social network has already captured a market of almost a billion Internet users. But with the ubiquity of smartphones and tablets, the company will need to ensure its future in the mobile industry, and Facebook has reportedly asked HTC to do a [...]

Facebook is about to become more intrusive, as privacy advocates are pointing out. The “frictionless sharing” that the social network is already implementing in some applications will automatically share whatever content you read without your explicit consent.