As some social networking sites experience monstrous growth, they are becoming a new -- and extremely lucrative -- frontier for cybercrime.
As more companies are turning to social media for help, some Chinese social networking sites are coming up with new services focused specifically on recruiting.
For some founders of social networking sites, the end goal isn't necessarily to start a bidding war and cash out fast.
Even though Google is still using some data from other social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, there has been a lot of backlash from users and other social networking sites.
The 39-year-old had been criticized in some quarters, including on social networking sites, for his support of Nieto, leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Pupils vented their anger on social networking sites, with some calling for the exams to be re-staged.
Belfast Council said some campaigners had inundated the council's social networking sites and embarked on an online hate campaign against individual members of staff.
Increasingly, some gather online information, including from social-networking sites.
That's not to say social networking sites haven't found success in charging members for some services.
And half or more of the site's traffic in some months comes through the "side door, " or from search engines, social-networking sites and other sources.
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In some instances it would be impossible, and probably undesirable, to forbid employee access to certain social networking sites.
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Additionally, some people use the same passwords for several of the online security barriers in their lives, like social networking sites, email accounts and online banking.
Some cash-strapped firms are making connections with potential hires in an even cheaper way: through social-networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook.
Some of that antipathy appeared to have been renewed by the restaurant sign, with thousands of posts on Vietnamese social networking sites and newspaper comment threads.
Google also hopes the change to semantic search will entice some people to stay longer on the search site, said people briefed on the plans, amid competition with social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter Inc. that are claiming more Internet users' time.
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