Despite the frothy headlines stirred by Twitter’s initial public offering, tech is not in a bubble of the sort that arose before the 2000 dot-com crash.
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UAE, Saudi Arabia users among most active on social media
Social media is increasingly becoming embeded in every individual’s life. From a professional perspective, social media platforms are the chosen medium to which customers create their own content, hunt for new products and services, and share their opinions on certain topics.0 10721
Twitter increases top-end share price to $25 as IBM alleges copyright violations
Twitter on Monday increased the price of shares in its initial public offering to a range of US$23 to $25 per share and also revealed that IBM has claimed the company has infringed on several patents.
Bing, Twitter continue their search party
Microsoft bills its Bing search engine as a social one, and to keep it that way it’s renewing a partnership with Twitter to keep tweets appearing in Bing search results, the companies said Friday.
du faces massive backlash in response to revised home services pricing
Du found itself in the midst of a social media meltdown on Tuesday, as customers responded via Twitter with outrage to new pricing plans for home services.
Malware-as-a-service blossoms in Russia, vendor research finds
Highly organised Russian groups have transformed mobile hacking into an industrial scale business, a kind of “malware-as-a-service,” complete with marketing affiliates, distributors and customer support.
Twitter introduces 'in-tweet' abuse button after complaints
Twitter has revised its guidelines around abusive behavior following bomb and rape threats made against several prominent female users of …
Pro-Assad hackers compromise White House emails, Reuters Twitter feed
The goal of these attacks was to spread pro-Assad messages, supporting the Syrian leader whose government is entrenched in a civil war.
Text analytics can help businesses soothe upset callers
Using text analytics technology to analyse call-centre transcripts and customer surveys, emails and tweets can improve customer service.
Small businesses turning to Facebook and LinkedIn for social media branding
Facebook took second place, as expected, with 35 percent adoption from small businesses. Surprisingly, LinkedIn was close behind, with 33 percent adoption.
Apple acknowledges developer portal hack
Apple on Sunday addressed a multi-day outage afflicting its developer site, acknowledging that its systems were hacked.