July 30th, 2012 by Music Ally

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As the giants of Silicon Valley continue to position themselves for battles ahead, Apple and Twitter have cemented their alliance by integrating Twitter into Mac OS X as well as iOS software.

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July 10th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Lady Gaga's social networking site has opened to all, enabling fans to sign in with their Facebook or Twitter IDs, or just their email addresses. It feels like a cross between Pinterest, Tumblr and Facebook:...

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June 13th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Apple is to finally put Ping, its social network for music, out of its misery later this year, according to reports.

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May 18th, 2012 by Music Ally

Social site Pinterest has raised a whopping $100m funding round that values the company at around $1.5bn. Existing VC investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital all...

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May 18th, 2012 by Music Ally

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And still the money comes flooding into new digital businesses, despite increasingly regularly-expressed fears that this could be another tech bubble.

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April 12th, 2012 by Music Ally

Google plus re-design

Google has announced that more than 170m people have signed up to its Google+ social network, while rolling out a revamped version of the site.

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April 11th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Facebook's $1bn acquisition of social photography app Instagram cemented a meteoric rise for the latter company, just 18 months after it launched. In this white paper, we take a look at Instagram's development...

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April 10th, 2012 by Music Ally

Facebook has bought photo-sharing app Instagram for what's reported to be a cool $1bn. Instagram launched two years ago, and still has only 13 staff, despite having notched up more than 30m users on iPhone...

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March 12th, 2012 by Music Ally

Gawker claims that in 2010, Twitter made $28.5m of revenues, but posted a net loss of $67.8m. In the first quarter of 2011, the company's revenues grew impressively to $23.8m, but its net loss was $25.8m.

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