Social Networking Apps

China’s WeChat cracks down on accounts, amid nation’s growing censorship

On Thursday WeChat closed the public accounts of several publications known for their political writings

The New World of IT: Cloud, BYOD, Social Media’s Impact on Corporate Networking

Changing the way IT works.

Desktop search spending to fall this year as mobile grows, study finds

Google plays a critical role in the trends, eMarketer said

NSA denies Facebook snooping as Zuckerberg lays into Obama

Facebook's CEO says he called President Obama to express his 'frustration' at repeated revelations of NSA snooping

Video ads come to Facebook

15-second ads will play automatically in users' feeds.

Google testing new results layout, but does it make ads less obvious?

Google for many users has changed the way it displays advertiser links

Twitter crashed — again — on Tuesday

Second Twitter crash in 9 days came during site upgrade

Startups vie to evaluate credit risk using Facebook profiles

Social Media Getting More Spontaneous and Less Personal

Facebook walks on optical networking’s wild side

The social network is using technologies that others may take years to adopt