Facebook extends into mobile messaging market with $19b purchase of WhatsApp.
The recent Israel-Palestine conflict has highlighted the importance of new media in a war. On Nov 14, Israeli defense forces launched "Operation Pillar of Defense" both on the traditional and virtual battlefields, with the Palestinians fighting back on both fronts. It is thus more than evident that social media have become the second front in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In the fast-moving business world, nothing is guaranteed but change: change is in the market, in customer preference and technology.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is battling not only jaded voters in a bitter election race, but the rancor of Rupert Murdoch, whose newspapers have depicted Rudd as a fictional bumbling Nazi colonel to a thief.
More people are using social media to tackle corrupt officials.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised on Wednesday that the United States will use the Internet and social media in its fight against al-Qaida and other extremist groups.
The recent Israel-Palestine conflict has highlighted the importance of new media in a war.
Frito-Lay is developing a new potato chip flavor, which, in the old days, would have involved a series of focus groups, research and trend analysis. Now, it uses Facebook.
China has the largest and most active population of social media users, and that has created unique opportunities for companies hoping to engage with a vast and increasingly affluent market, a new McKinsey study has found.
Three days have passed since contact was lost with Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Like many people, once the news broke I followed the latest developments through micro blogs and the popular instant messaging service WeChat. There was good and bad news, but much of it has proved to be rumor as nothing is yet known of what happened to the plane and its passengers and crew.
In the fast-moving business world, nothing is guaranteed but change: change is in the market, in customer preference and technology.
It may be stilettos at dawn to get a ringside seat at New York's most exclusive fashion shows, but forget the fur-clad heiresses - today's VIP is the Internet.
Daniel Radcliffe says social media savvy celebrities give up their right to privacy because they are inviting the public into their lives.
Business leaders in Asia are using social media more often as a tool for recruitment, but some remain skeptical about the reliability of scattered information.
The growing use of social media by courts is in line with efforts by China's top judicial body to better open up the trial process to the public.
Olivier Fleurot has always been open to change. Trained as an engineer, he ended up managing newspapers and is now developing a global public relations network.
Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia have the most active people on social media, at least among consumers who frequent Starbucks coffee shops.
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