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Sony has just announced a “new era” in how PlayStation user can consume content, as the PlayStation Home network now lets users watch movies together via the Crackle network, and can expect to listen to music together by December, too.

Holidays are for gift-giving and sharing cheerful moments with friends. Sometimes it also involves a lot of shopping. For those who need to get money passed around, Facebook and PayPal are making it easier to share the funds through an app called Send Money.

Google launched Google+ Pages for brands and businesses earlier this month, giving companies the opportunity to run their own identity on Google’s social network. But while a good majority of top brands already have a presence on Google+, they still have a long way to go in terms of popularity.

As social networking grows in popularity, so do the downsides of being connected online. A survey has found out that one third of adults in relationships have broken up using Facebook, email or SMS.

Jennifer O’Brien, a first-grade teacher from Paterson, New Jersey could soon lose her job because of a status update she posted on Facebook. She was taken to court after she called her students “future criminals” on her Facebook page, something which obviously didn’t sit well with a lot of people.

Facebook has a lot of issues when it comes to privacy. And if you’re an avid user, chances are the social networking site has done something that didn’t sit well with you in that regard at one time or another. Now, it’s been revealed that Facebook is nearing settlement with [...]

Taking a tip from popular social networks like Facebook and Google+, Xbox.com is adding new social networking features to its online portal. The new update will make it easier for users to connect wit Xbox LIVE friends, as well as buy movies straight from the website.

Google is adding a social dimension to images found on Google Image Search by adding +1 buttons for better sharing of images with friends. With the new feature, you can +1 images that you like, and these will appear on your Google+ profile favorites.

Google has recently announced the availability of Google+ Pages for use by businesses, brands, special interest groups, organizations and other non-individual entities. But a closer look at Google’s policies indicates that the service might not be as flexible to businesses, after all.

Google has opened the floodgates of its very own Google+ social networking service to businesses with Google+ Pages. Now businesses, organizations, and even inanimate objects can now have their very own page on Google+.