Local Businesses need Foursquare.com

So what else can businesses do with social media, besides offending fictional cats? Services like Foursquare and Lookaly present themselves primarily as tools for consumers but also offer some real benefits for businesses too! Let’s first take a look at Foursquare then check back to our blog over the next few days for a follow up article [...]

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Target over 50s through Social Networking

We used to live in a world where computers were just for the rich. Then they were just for the geeky. Then they were just for the young. But now even that stereotype is changing and more and more middle-aged and elderly people are going online. This “silver surfer” demographic is not new, the 50 [...]

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Google invests in Farmville creators

Google is secretly investing in the massive social gaming company, Zynga Google is investing between $100m and $200m in social gaming market leader Zynga, paving the way for a ‘Google Games’ launch later this year. News of the investment was revealed today by digital media blog Tech Crunch, although a recent tweet from Zynga’s chief [...]

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Google to launch ‘Google Me’ social network “very soon”

The evidence is mounting that Google intends to launch a social network to rival Facebook. Speculation on the subject began with Digg founder Kevin Rose when he used his Twitter account to declare that ‘Google Me’ is launching very soon, alluding to a “very credible source”. The tweet was later removed, but not before it made its way across [...]

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