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WSJ: Softbank’s Son Stills Twitter to Protest New Japan Internet Rule

Wall Street Journal | April 13, 2011 | Yoree Koh This much is clear: Masayoshi Son has been an angry man these past few days. While Japan’s richest man has recently used Twitter to share news of his philanthropic activities in the post-quake relief efforts, the strong-willed founder...

Kakao Talk aims to take on Facebook, Twitter

Yonhap News Agency | April 11, 2011 | Lee Youkyung SEOUL, April 11 (Yonhap) -- Kakao Corp., the developer of the fastest growing mobile messenger service in South Korea, said Monday that it plans to set up subsidiaries in the United States and Japan this...

Twitter receives San Francisco tax break

Twitter has won a battle with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to the effect that the firm will now be exempt from a 1.5 percent payroll tax for the next six years. Twitter and several other firms had threatened to move their offices away...

@ CTIA: Panelists say mobile marketing is the future of engagement

As mobile phones fast become fixtures in our daily lives, the common standards of marketing are adapting and changing. Marketers are realizing that barraging a customer with click ads and emails is no longer the most effective way to convert.

Social media takes credit for Middle East Revolutions

An unfortunate side effect of a “cool” conference like SXSW is you find a lot of people who truly, deeply believe that they themselves, personally, are changing the world for the better. It’s somewhat sweet, somewhat cheesy, and very, very naïve.

Google, Facebook rule in Southeast Asia

CNET | March 9, 2011 | John Chan According to a report by analytics firm comScore, Internet users in Southeast Asia rely more on Google than the rest of the world. In addition, out of the top 15 countries with the highest Facebook penetration, three are...

Google’s Schmidt puts social media chips on Brazil and Orkut to fend off Facebook

Forbes | March 7, 2011 | Agustino Fontevecchia Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who is soon to be re-deployed as chairman after founder Larry Page takes the reins in April, gave an interview over the weekend from Buenos Aires where he gave clues as to the search-giant’s new...

LinkedIn says China has unblocked its service

BBC News | February 25, 2011 Business networking site LinkedIn says access to its services appears to have been restored in China, a day after it was blocked there. "We will continue to monitor the situation," a US spokesman for the site said. Shortly before the site...

UK police using Twitter to track protesters

As you may (or may not) have heard, the United Kingdom has recently seen a series of protests aimed at reversing the government's controversial spending cuts, which have lopped a massive £7 billion from the budget of public services across the country.

Google to exhibit at Mobile World Congress

The GSMA has announced that Google will be exhibiting at Mobile World Congress for the first time

KT becomes first Korean Telco to get a facelift

Korea’s KT has this week formed a partnership with Facebook, making it the first Korean Telco to enter into an agreement with the incredibly popular social networking site.