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Skype Launches Professional Networking Platform for SMBs

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Skype has announced a public launch of its new online platform for small businesses called Skype in the workspace. After six months of being in closed beta, SITW is now opened for small businesses enabling them to connect with potential customers and partners around the world.

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CouchSurfing Raises $15 Million in Series B, Led by General Catalyst Partners

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Global Social Travel Network Expands to Nearly 5 Million Users in More Than 93,000 Cities

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Access Innovation Prize 2012

Access Innovation Prize 2012

Access and Facebook Launch Tech Innovation Prize To Promote Human Development

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Norton and Facebook Partner to Make the Web Safer

Norton and Facebook Partner to Make the Web Safer

Partnership brings Norton security to Facebook members

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Trend Micro Announces Partnership with Facebook

Trend Micro Announces Partnership with Facebook

Facebook now offers safer social networking backed by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network

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Social Media & Cloud Computing Top Internal Auditors’ Technology Hot List

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2012 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey focuses on technology skills

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Google Launches Personalized Search

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Google implemented two methods of search, global and personalized. While global still functions for any user that is not signed in, personalized search will show the content related to your Google+ network.

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Google+ Now Has 62 Million Users, Predicted to Hit 400 Million by the End of 2012

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Google+ user base is growing at a fast pace and is currently counting 62 million users, according to Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com and Google+ unofficial traffic analyst. The search giant’s social network is adding 625,000 new users each day, Allen says.

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LinkedIn Introduces Polling for Groups

LinkedIn Introduces Polls in Groups

Professional social networking site LinkedIn introduced a new feature on Wednesday created to boost participation in professional conversation within its one million Groups through polling. Polls within groups will be rolling out to all members over the next few days, the company said.

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Facebook Launches Mobile App Platform

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Facebook has launched a mobile platform for third-party app developers enabling them to reach the audience of 350 million people who access the social network from a mobile device, including Apple’s iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch and the mobile web. Facebook says that support for other mobile platforms, such as Google’s Android will be added in [...]

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LinkedIn Adds Company Status Updates, Launches Certified Developer Program

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LinkedIn has added a new feature which will allow companies to post status updates. The professional social networking site launched the Company Follow feature in April 2010, and according to LinkedIn’s Ryan Roslansky, millions of its members are currently following more than 2 million companies on LinkedIn. Now all those millions of professionals will receive status updates [...]

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Facebook Partners with Websense to Protect Users from Harmful Links

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Facebook and security firm Websense have announced partnership aimed at protecting the social network users from malware and malicious links. Websense technology will be integrated directly into Facebook and will enhance the existing protections on the platform to prevent users from clicking on potentially harmful links. From now on, each time a Facebook user clicks [...]

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Google+ Traffic Increased by 1269% in a Week

Google+ opened to the public last week with slew of new features. Since then, Google’s social network experienced significant growth, both in terms of traffic and user base. According to a market research company Experian Hitwise, Google+ market share of visits increased by 1,269% last week, receiving 15 million US visits, mobile traffic excluded. Google+ [...]

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