Tweet Online calling service Skype, which Microsoft said earlier this year it would acquire for $8.5 billion, announced its own acquisition on Sunday: according to a blog post from Skype CEO Tony Bates, the company is buying GroupMe, a New York-based startup just over a year old that offers users a way to send group
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Tweet Facebook users can now let their friends know when they are expecting a child, complete with due date and chosen baby name, the social networking blog Inside Facebook discovered Wednesday. Users have been able to add family members with Facebook accounts to their profiles since December 2010, when Facebook last gave profile designs a
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Tweet Scammers are again taking advantage of the hype surrounding the Google+ social network‘s debut. Google periodically opens its network up to a limited number of people at a time, but a rogue Facebook application, pointed out by Satnam Narang, claims to offer a Google+ invite to users who want immediate access. As with other
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Tweet As Paul Ducklin predicted only a few days ago, scams related to Facebook‘s launch of a video chat service powered by Skype are surfacing.
Tweet What does Mark Zuckerberg think of Google+, the search giant’s new social network? We were curious, so we asked Zuckerberg two questions at Facebook’s video chat event in Palo Alto, California: Will there be group video chat in the future? And what does he think of Google+ Hangouts, Google’s new group video chat feature?
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Tweet How soon we forget. MySpace, the mostly-abandoned, Justin Timberlake-owned social network of yore, was the first to ink a VoIP deal for member-to-member calling — more than three-and-a-half years before Facebook. This little tidbit of truth was dug up by none other than MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson, who was also quick to point out
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Tweet Mark Zuckerberg promised “something awesome” for Wednesday’s conference. What Facebook delivered is a trio of new chat features, including the earlier reported Skype-video chat integration. The new features include a redesigned chat interface, group chats, and the aforementioned video chat, all explained on Facebook’s blog. The group chat feature will let users chat with
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