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Kanye West Tells the World on Twitter that He Is Hiring

Kanye West, who’s touring with Jay-Z, and whose daring and gorgeous album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” was the toast of 2010 and 2011, has just put out a huge For Hire ad on his, let’s say it, acclaimed Twitter feed. Scientists, designers, writers, social media experts, tech guys (and gals), and even nutritionists are

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On Facebook, Israel Writes in Arabic to Engage a Contentious Public

The men and women in charge of branding and marketing for Israel’s military are known for their active engagement in social media, but something they had not been particularly known for, at least not until very recently, was the generation of content written and produced in Arabic. Incredibly, this week didn’t just see Palestine voted

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President Obama Riding on Tumblr’s Rise: Opens Interactive Campaign Blog

In 2008, President Obama set the standard for the smart application of social media in extreme politicking. It’s now 2012, and Obama continues on his trail-blazing streak — he’s started a Tumblr, or more precisely, his campaign staffers in Chicago started one for him. Still, it’s more than likely that Obama himself will personally contribute

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Social Media Urges On a New Statistics

The world’s twitter and Facebook output — along with its googling and cell phone geo data — is about to be stirred, strewn out on a researcher’s desk, and examined like a sacrificed animal’s entrails during the heyday of ancient Greece. It seems that social media has done wonders for the acceptance of an old

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MySpace Sold for $35 Million, but Still Cool Enough for Justin Timberlake

Back in 2005, News Corporation paid $580 million to acquire MySpace. At the time, the pioneering social media site received, in the United States alone, 20 million unique visitors monthly. Today, what’s left of the network was just sold for a not-so-cool $35 million.

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Promising Stock Market Debut for Chinese Social Media Fixture RenRen

The U.S. has just witnessed the first IPO of a social media group — RenRen Inc. If ranked according to page views, then RenRen is the most important Chinese social network and today it made its grand debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Its underwriters were Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Morgan Stanley. The

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