It’s the question that is keeping the management of all companies awake at night: is there a single, cost-effective investment that can help grow a business even as the whole global economy is contracting?

It’s not as if Twitter was looking, but who wouldn’t answer when opportunity knocks carrying $35m? Though Mark Hendrickson at TechCrunch has confirmation that the actual sum raised is in excess of $35m. Announcing the …

No doubt you’ve seen or even contributed to the 25 Things meme that has swept through Facebook of late, prompting old school denizens of the interwebs to heave le sigh and compare it to the …

Today’s an exciting day for Twitter, social media, mass collaboration and charity; Twestival, the fundraising drive organised primarily through the social messaging medium by more than 1,000 volunteers in 175 cities across the world will …

Bloggers and reporters alike worked themselves into a froth yesterday over speculation around Twitter’s plans to charge brands for commercial use of its service, prompted by Fiona Ramsay’s story in Marketing magazine and a considered …

The blogger buzz today seems to focus around Google and its various manifestations in our technological world, tinged with suspicion at the search giant’s increasingly Big Brother-like power.
From a purely practical view, there’s much excitement …

So, Facebook opens up access to a number of Facebook Applications including status updates, notes, links and video, and suddenly, people like Nick O’Neill at AllFacebook think we’ve got a Twitter-killer on our hands.
Mark Hendrickson …

Mike Schroepfer at Facebook has blogged the reasoning behind the social network becoming a member of the OpenID Foundation, a move that’s surprised some because, as Adam Ostrow at Mashable points out, until now, Facebook …

Clay Shirky has been in London this week promoting the paperback launch of Here Comes Everybody with a series of talks on social networks and digital democracy. Stephen Waddington got an autograph and posted a …

Google’s leapt feetfirst into the location-aware services pool, allowing users to locate their friends and display their own location in real time using either a smartphone or an iGoogle gadget.

MG Siegler at VentureBeat thinks this …