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Angry Birds Migrates to Facebook and Toy Stores - NYTimes.com
bits.blogs.nytimes.com | 20 minutes ago
Angry Birds, the popular mobile game that challenges players to fling birds at elaborate structures, has migrated to Facebook. Its maker is adding features that are key to its business plans, like coupons for "power-ups" that accompany stuffed toys. <a

The MySpace Comeback: Social Entertainment - 'Net Features - Website Magazine
www.websitemagazine.com | 2 hours 30 minutes ago
Website Magazine is the leading print and digital publication on Web success, covering search marketing, social media, software, web design, development and more. Social network MySpace announced it had added one million new members since December 2012 thanks to the introduction of the new Myspace

YouTube Changes Terms For Content Owners - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD
allthingsd.com | 2 hours 30 minutes ago
Behind the scenes, a small but important change in the way YouTube deals with content owners.

Refocused MySpace gains 1 million users, but is a comeback possible? - TechSpot News
www.techspot.com | 4 hours ago
MySpace has announced that the site has acquired one million new users since December 2011. In addition to the new users, comScore reported last week that monthly traffic to MySpace had increased in January, marking the first increase in nearly

Trends in Social Media – 2012 | SYS-CON MEDIA
www.sys-con.com | 10 hours 15 minutes ago
SYS-CON Media, NJ, The world's leading i-technology media company on breaking technology news.

Twitter user dines out on BBC canteen gossip | Media Monkey | Media | guardian.co.uk
www.guardian.co.uk | 11 hours 8 minutes ago
Media Monkey: The Killing Station is a 'well-informed' Twitter account with intimate knowledge of the BBC canteen

Finextra: ANZ adds to Oz job misery; Westpac accused of 'censoring' Facebook complaints
www.finextra.com | 12 hours 52 minutes ago
Australia's ANZ is to cut 1000 middle management, back office and support jobs by the end of 2012 in response to higher costs, regulatory demands and ...

E-Commerce News: Wall Street: LinkedIn Delivers Sparkling Earnings Report, Bright Forecast
www.ecommercetimes.com | Feb 10, 2012
LinkedIn, the social network site for professionals, surprised the market on Thursday, reporting fourth-quarter sales that more than doubled its year-ago performance. Company executives forecast an even better 2012. Shares of LinkedIn rose more than 10 percent on the news. Revenue for the quarter

Brazil Wants To Ban Twitter Messages About Road Traffic - Digits - WSJ
blogs.wsj.com | Feb 10, 2012
Brazil's attorney general's office has filed for an injunction against Twitter, as well as some of its local users, to ban all messages alerting to the time and location of police speed traps and road traffic checkpoints.

Infosecurity - Privacy group sues FTC over Google's privacy changes
www.infosecurity-magazine.com | Feb 10, 2012
A US federal judge has granted the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) an accelerated briefing schedule for its lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over Google’s new privacy policy.