Xing, the social network for professionals that has quite a lot of traction in Europe, has announced its purchase of socialMedian, a social news aggregator startup which came out of private beta just a few …

Michael Arrington has thrown a major wobbly over the misuse of PR embargoes and in a  related stream of barbed vitriol, has begun publicly denouncing the attention-seeking behaviour bordering on spamming tactics employed by some …

Twitter’s looking for a business product manager. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch sees it as the first step in Twitter’s plan to ramp up revenue, adding:
“Most startups in this position simply sell themselves before it becomes …

Remember how back in the day, the year 2000 was going to be this amazing unimaginable nirvana of science and technology development of almost sci-fi proportions that was going to change our lives forever? Then …

Mahalo, the human-powered search engine launched in 2007 has added another facet to its angle of curated web content – a Q&A feature called Mahalo Answers. What sets it apart from similar services such as …

Days after Yahoo’s job cuts, TechCrunch confirms that CBS Interactive has also laid off around 20% of staff, affecting CNET and Last.fm among other digital media assets. Erick Schonfeld estimates the total number of cuts …

A new tool that’s got some ears pricked is Zentact, a contact-amplifying service co-founded by Eric Marcoullier, known for being a key player in the team that developed MyBlogLog and then sold it to Yahoo …

Forrester Research has released a report which finds that people do not trust corporate blogs –
which rank below newpapers, portals, wikis, direct mail, company email and message board posts in the trustworthiness stakes. Josh Bernoff, …

Nick Bilton, design integration editor and user interface specialist at The New York Times and The Times Research & Development Lab, thinks he’s hit upon a business model for Twitter. Writing for O’Reilly Radar, Bilton …

Unless we find the tools to silence the chatter, that is. Om Malik at GigaOM has started a thought-provoking conversation with his post about the challenges facing the social web, itself inspired by Elliot Ng’s …