There’s little doubt that Facebook, Twitter and Google+ form the ‘Big Three’ of the social media world. While Facebook and Twitter have been around for a while, Google+ is a recent phenomenon that’s growing at a scorching pace. While I strongly believe that all of these social networks operate mutually exclusively, there’s been no shortage of social media experts and …

The young upstart mobile payments company Square is surging ahead. Square made the surprising announcement this week that the San Francisco-based startup launched in 2009 by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is now processing about $4 million in mobile payments per day, which is $1 million more than it processed just one month ago. And the company is on target to …

Google launched Google+ to cash in on Facebook’s privacy blues. And till date, things have gone as per plan. Most Google+ users have liked the concept of direct and extended circles. In fact, several technology experts believe that privacy holds the key to the high-stakes Facebook – Google+ battle. To be honest, I believe that Google+ holds a definite late …

Google+ is on a roll. It has raked up nearly 20 million users in no time and continues to grow at an explosive rate. Several people have questioned whether Google+ will kill one or all of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It is believed that Google+ will soon unveil business pages. I recently did a post on whether Google+ can emerge …

While the whole world has been glued to the glamor boys of social media – Google+ and Facebook/Skype, LinkedIn has been busy reshaping the future of online job applications. LinkedIn yesterday launched a Web button that lets job applicants submit their profiles on the networking service’s site to employers that interest them. Though LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, …

Facebook is the ‘Big Daddy of All Social Networks’. With more than 750 million users, it is the undisputed king of social networking.  And common sense suggests that since it’s the most popular network around, most users would be extremely satisfied using it. However, in a recently released satisfaction survey of online news, search and social media sites, Facebook garnered …

It’s fair to say that Google+ has taken the social media world by storm. Facebook is no longer unchallenged and Google+ holds the potential to emerge as a powerful branding tool for businesses. While I’d refrain from calling it the ‘Facebook Killer’, I have no doubt that Google+ can be quickly evolved into a prime time advertising tool. To say that …

Facebook just keeps getting better and bigger, especially for businesses. A little over a week ago, the world’s leading social network organized a media event to unveil ‘something awesome’.  It unveiled the group chat feature and announced that it now has more than 750 million users. However, the ‘awesome’ announcement was the partnership with Skype – thereby allowing users to …

When Google+ launched, I knew that comparisons to Facebook are inevitable and many experts would be quick to claim that Google+ will dethrone Facebook as the #1 social network. However, challenging Facebook is no child’s play. The world’s leading social network silenced its critics by announcing that it now has a community of over 750 million users.

With the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer in this lackluster economy, Internet advertisers and marketers are beginning to concentrate their efforts and advertising spending on the wealthy. This must mean all of the online action must be occurring at websites peddling ultra-luxurious goods, such as a sporty Porsche or a diamond-encrusted mobile phone, or some such thing. …

The whole world waited in anticipation for Facebook’s “something awesome” event on Wednesday. During the event, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook now has more than 750 million active users, there by making it the world’s leading social network, and that by some distance. Google+ is a new kid on the block and it remains to be seen whether it can …

Full-featured smartphones are about to take over the mobile phone market. A new Nielsen survey found that a majority of all mobile phone purchases for the past three-months were smartphones. With more affordable pricing, more choices in carriers, operating systems and a slew of tempting applications, smartphones are now the preferred choice over simple feature phones. Users today no longer …

Google’s popular Realtime search feature quietly vanished during the long Fourth of July weekend. Why? The search engine’s two-year deal with Twitter providing it with access to Twitter’s live “firehose” of public tweets expired on June 2. Rather than continue offering pointless trending social media results minus instant tweets from the world’s most popular micro-blogging service, Google removed Realtime search …

Black Hat spammers and malicious cyber criminals have figured out that members of social networking websites are easy marks. The cunning cyber crooks exploit our collective insecurities. We all want to be liked by our social networking friends. So, chances are, quite a few users would automatically click on a legit-looking email notification of new messages or alluring invites. When …

With all due respect to Google, its social media efforts till date have been nothing to write about. Google Wave was a disaster and Google Buzz made a limited impact. In contrast, Facebook has gone from strength to strength and emerged as the world’s leading social network that’s fast approaching the 600 million member mark. It’s been a bitter pill …