Facebook has slowly been rolling out “hovercards” to show previews of profiles, Pages, events and groups when their names are moused over on the news feed. This new design element, which has been spotted over the past few months, allows users to learn more about and interact with items in their (Read more...)

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Having lagged behind much of the rest of the world, India is now among one of the fastest growing international regions for Facebook. Developers in the country are paying more attention, too, producing the sorts of apps that will be familiar to most users.

UTV Indiagames is one of those (Read more...)

Twitter-based startup TweetUp has acquired Twidroid and Popurls to help bolster its search and advertising platform that identifies the best tweets and users from across the Web based on keyword searches.

TweetUp combines sophisticated relevance algorithms with a bidding system to raise user-profiles to the top of search results and (Read more...)

Like many of you, I enjoyed a quintessential summer weekend during this past 4^th of July holiday. I feel like I did almost everything people enjoy doing on warm summer days. My activities included spending time at the pool, eating lunch in the park, visiting a zoo (the Lincoln (Read more...)

It was reported this morning that AT&T may be quietly hindering 3G upload speeds in hopes of curbing network strain, reacting to yet another influx of iPhone devices hitting its network daily.  While nothing has been formally announced, several readers of GigaOM have complained that their upload speeds have decreased (Read more...)

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest cellular service provider, announced a partnership with Facebook yesterday that will bring free access to the site’s mobile version, m.facebook.com, to Bharti’s 130 million customers. For all of July and August Airtel subscribers can utilize key Facebook features like status updates, photos, and private messages with (Read more...)

Global mobile media company BuzzCity today released the results of its “Global Mobile Advertising Index” for Q2 2010, in which it reveals a quarter-over-quarter increase of 61% for mobile advertising impressions over Q1.

What’s interesting is that this isn’t another fly-by-night report issued without merit- BuzzCity gathered this (Read more...)

With iAd a lengthy one-week old at this point, Apple is already gearing up to utilize the treasure chest of user-data its acquired through the roughly 150M iTunes accounts it has full access to.

More specifically, Apple has commissioned a thorough study of the purchasing patterns of its users in (Read more...)

[Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Visit Inside Facebook Gold to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.]

Growth for Facebook’s top countries in Europe dipped sharply in (Read more...)

Both Democrats and Republicans can agree on one aspect of “change” brought by the Obama Administration. The Commander-in-Chief is changing the way the White House and the Federal Government at large use digital media and social networking to connect with Americans.

And, for the most part, few object to the (Read more...)

Especially in today’s hyper-connected culture, knowing how to build relationships and leverage those relationships to improve your standing is important. It might sound a little brutish or cold, but it’s as true in search engine optimization (SEO) as it is in the rest of the business world – it’s not (Read more...)

Mobile apps are a great way to reach and engage consumers from all walks of life, and the UK government seems to agree.  BBC News is reporting that the UK government has spent thousands of pounds on creating numerous iPhone apps.

The apps aren’t all government related either, some aim (Read more...)

Our list of Top 20 Facebook Pages, complied by our PageData tool counting the number of fans added to a Page daily, was a mixed bag this week. Lady Gaga was the first person on Facebook to get 10 million fans, beating out President Barack Obama — and Vin Diesel. (Read more...)