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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, Sept 2 (Reuters) - LewisHamilton's Twitter feed provided a further talking point aheadof the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday when he sent his 997,000followers telemetry details from his McLaren car in qualifying. The Tweet subsequently disappeared, just as a flurry of hismessages had been removed …

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This week we’re doing all things Republican convention. Throngs of National Journal staffers were on hand throughout the week, talking to top Republican planners, pollsters and politicians. Our podcast will be broken down into three parts to give you the highlights from each day. First, we’ll hear about Mitt Romney's campaign …

This week we’re doing all things Republican convention. Throngs of National Journal staffers were on hand throughout the week, talking to top Republican planners, pollsters and politicians. Our podcast will be broken down into three parts to give you the highlights from each day. First, we’ll hear about Mitt Romney's campaign …

There could be a lot more notifications from Facebook on the way. The company's rolled out a beta version of a new notifications API, a tool for developers that lets all Facebook apps send notifications to users. This could open the floodgates to a plethora of notes under that "notification jewel," especially if the user …

Facebook has stepped up its security on brand pages, working to remove fraudulent Likes caused by spambots, malware or fake account users.

First impressions are everything, but sometimes they creep up on you. As a job candidate, 86% of potential employers will look at your social profiles -- even if you don't explicitly share those links. While Facebook red-cup duty is common practice for job seekers, you might be surprised to know that recruiters think poor …

Facebook ramped up efforts Friday to get rid of "Likes" that aren't from people genuinely interested in giving a virtual thumbs up to pages at the world's leading social network.

(Reuters) - Shares of Facebook Inc fell 4.5 percent to a new low on Friday after brokerages cut their price targets on the company's shares, saying several lock-up expirations over the next year will weigh on the stock. Early investors got the green light to sell Facebook shares for the first time on August 16, sending …

On its first day of trading, Facebook Inc.'s stock closed barely above its public offering price. It gained 23 cents, or 0.6 percent, to close at $38.23. Since then, the stock price fell for 10 weeks and increased for five.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is weeding out fake "Likes" on its social network that are being caused by spammers, malware and black marketeers as it strives to maintain credibility as an advertising platform. Facebook said the number of Likes, or endorsements by users, on corporate pages is likely to drop by less …

Facebook's stock has been down on 44 trading days, up on 28 and unchanged on two since its initial public offering.

From the masterminds behind the scary and viral "Take This Lollipop" video, Linkin Park's new music video for "Lost in the Echo" places your Facebook pictures into the storyline to personalize the tale for each viewer.

The social media sphere is an increasingly noisy place, especially for brands. But hiding somewhere in the static are strong signals from companies reaching their customers in innovative ways. The Social Business Index from Dachis Group provides a (free) real-time ranking of more than 30,000 global brands based on their …

Google, with its fully decked-out media lounge, backstage "Conversation Room" and end-of-the-week epic party, was inarguably the most prominent of the technology companies at the Republican National Convention -- a list that also included Facebook and Twitter.

In an effort to appease advertisers, Facebook is cleaning up its fake "like" problem, which actually doesn't sound like it will do much of anything to boost the credibility of a like. The good news is that Facebook will get rid of faux likes that come from malware, compromised accounts, deceived users, or ones that were …

Facebook stock sank another 5 percent to a new low Friday amid concerns about the Internet social network's ability to woo increasingly skeptical advertisers and weather another wave of potential selling by its major stockholders.

A new tool for advertisers lets them target ads to customers who have already used their services.

Clint Eastwood caused quite the stir on the national stage of the Republican National Convention Thursday night when he interviewed an empty chair, addressing it as “President Obama.” The off-color interview sparked a rush of Internet buzz and produced at least two new twitter trends....

Bing added a feature Thursday that lets people search through photos friends posted on Facebook.

The social messaging service unveils a plan to make more money from its 140 million monthly users — but don't expect tweeps to laud the new initiativeThis week, Twitter rolled out a new plan to make its 140-character messaging service more attractive to advertisers. Previously, companies could only tweet to users who were …

Twitter users are buzzing about 1990s US boy band the Backstreet Boys and transfer news in the English Premier League on Friday, August 31. 

A sampling of celebrity tweets in response to Clint Eastwood's odd conversation with an invisible President Barack Obama in an empty chair before the Republican National Convention on Thursday: