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Popular searches for consumer electronics, medical information, and NFL players now generate Yahoo Shortcuts in the search engine's results pages.
Even as credible rumors of acquisitions and IPOs spread, many onlookers were astonished by the amount of money Facebook seemed to believe its site was worth. Yet Facebook may now introduce an advertising system that would have doubters nodding in agreement.
If you can't be home from work for five minutes without checking your email, you may have a problem, and it may be worse than you think, says a Tel Aviv psychiatrist. You could be suffering from Internet addiction disorder, or you may just have nothing better to do.
As tradition would have it, Facebook’s for college students and LinkedIn’s for professionals. But what about mothers? Yes, mothers can of course be both college students and professionals, but in any case, there’s CafeMom, and for CafeMom, there’s $5 million - the social networking site just had a successful round of funding.
Sixty-eight percent of staffing and recruiting professionals say they use social networks at least occasionally to source candidates, according to an online survey from Bullhorn, "Making the Most of the New Tools: How online resources impact placement ratios, time-to-fill and profitability."
Social networking is hot - has been for years, really - and the mobile market isn’t exactly unpopular, either. So Virgin Mobile is embracing both trends, and, as described by the company, “Virgin Mobile USA’s over 4.8 million customers can now access a variety of social networking opportunities including a group of niche-targeted mobile-optimized sites.”
