Google has begun a trial where Google Offers from select brands will show up in your Google+ feed if you follow the brand. It's a clever play for ad revenues and to boost G+.
Could Google's new social-powered routing and accident mapping be a blow to crowdsourced mapping tool Waze? Maybe not if Waze is powered by Facebook. The billion-dollar buyout rumor gets a new twist.
It only launched on Saturday, but Facebook has already put the kibosh on Social Roulette. The game gives users a one in six chance of deleting their Facebook account, merely by allowing them to "load" a bullet in a chamber and take a shot.
The teen-friendly social media site, a former acquisition of AOL, is in up to its neck. The filing follows a lawsuit against owner Criterion by smaller investors, claiming mismanagement of the site.