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It's not really about your score; it's about expanding your network and extending your reach. Here are 7 ways to do it. “We’d like to send you one of our new laptops,” the voice on the phone said

The FBI just announced plans to ramp up their social media monitoring, data mining, and analysis. The surprising thing is that they haven't done so already.

You'll find out relatively early in the life of a new venture. Here's why.

Spotify just hit 3 million paying subscribers, the Financial Times reports . That may sound like an impressive milestone for the popular on-demand music service, but how impressive is it really? Only about 64 days have elapsed since Spotify announced it reached 2.5 million subscribers in November

Leo Widrich, co-founder of the social media management tool Buffer, on how to get more out of your Tweets. If you love Twitter —and you also have a life—you probably use Buffer to schedule your tweets: To make announcements at a specific time, to send time-sensitive tweets like for limited-time offers, to communicate when your followers are most likely to notice, and to avoid membership in the tweet-a-minute club

When it comes to building your own personal brand, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn get all our digital love.

Got a great product that's all steak and no sizzle? Road ID co-founder Edward Wimmer on how to craft the killer pitch.

The first place your customers meet you is online. So it's time for a spot check: Are you looking your best? Customer relationships are job No

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In our last India edition of The Great Tech War of 2012 , we noted how Facebook was emerging as a clear winner. Since then, things have gotten more competitive.

Over the weekend, Facebook quietly registered a series of "newsroom" domains. Could a new journalism project be next for the social media giant?

Use these nine techniques to account for how your customer's brain could be wired, and seal the deal.

Michelle Obama’s first day on Twitter was the tweet heard 'round the world, with more than 60,000 followers signing up to follow her the morning she launched.

#OpMegaupload , a reaction by the hacktivists group Anonymous to a strict takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload (and the arrest of employees) on piracy charges, has been pretty successful in disabling the websites of the Department of Justice, the MPAA, the RIAA and others. Partly carried out via Twitter messages, this new effort by Anonymous is only superficially similar to previous distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that Anonymous has carried out to punish its targets

HP, Best Buy, and JetBlue reveal how they use Twitter's enhanced profile pages to make every tweet sing. It’s still officially in velvet-rope mode, but Twitter’s enhanced profile pages are heavily in play for those brands among the first to sign up. So how are the early reviews?