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Nowadays, there are thousands of small online businesses all competing with each other to earn money over the Internet. All of this was due to the evolution of the online environment into a hotbed for business transactions. But this wasn’t always so, before the creation of the popular social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, [...]

The social media was used to fuel the goal of forcing Egypt’s President Mubarak to step down. This has happened after weeks of street protests by hundreds of thousands of iron willed citizens. The protests took a total of 18 days and it was appalling to all those following the story just how much resilience [...]

Egypt has been engulfed in chaos for the better part of this week. Anti-government demonstrations have swept the country with the aim of ousting the president Hosni Mubarak. Reports continue to flood in about the country being cut off from Internet connection. The citizens have been denied access to social media services like Twitter and [...]

With social media getting into every aspect of our lives it is not such weird thing that people are now checking on some of the social sites while in the bathroom.  Yes more people are catching up with information on social media sites in the privacy of a bathroom. According to a survey by AIS [...]

Of late there has been much going on concerning the SMB space especially with the recent deal offers on the products of local businesses. Ad-ology did a study in November 2010 seeking to find out the views of SMB concerning social media. SMB view social media as being beneficial to them in varying degrees which [...]

For a long time it has always been believed that people who are socially active on the web are also socially active outside the web. The Pew Research Center released a report that backs this theory. On the 18th of January the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project released data that showed that [...]

Speculations about a Facebook IPO have caused quite a buzz. But maybe the focus should now shift elsewhere-LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a social media network that aims to connect professionals. Unlike Facebook where people join to connect with friends and family and have some fun while at it, the relationships of the users in LinkedIn are [...]

StumbleUpon is all smiles as a report from StatCounter showed that it was leading as the site with the highest referral traffic to all the major social media sites. No doubt that the StumbleUpon CEO Garret Camp was elated when he tweeted out that they, a company that has around 13 million users, had surpassed [...]

Most tech lovers are definitely looking forward to the annual Consumer Electronics Show which will be running from the 6th to the 9th of this month. The show will be held in Las Vegas and companies are expected to showcase their best in the tech world. The social media will feature extensively as it is [...]

It appears that Facebook may just be on the way to realizing a different but major revenue avenue. Facebook has now included a “shop now” tab on brands fan pages. One big brand has already started making use of the facility and is selling one of Proctor and Gamble’s products. The Pampers fan page allows [...]