During a Webcast event on Tuesday, the search giant unveiled and demoed Google Buzz, which takes five tenants of social networking to deliver "a Google approach to sharing." Resembling a futuristic ...

The photo-sharing app, which is often used to share unflattering or embarrassing “selfies,” has rolled out SnapKidz aimed at children under 13. By Aimee Lee Ball The company will add an instant ...

Two weeks ago, I shared my belief in this space that mobile social networking will become the most important business technology since e-mail. I spoke about the phenomenon as growing to prominence ...

Highway 9 Networks has emerged from stealth with a SaaS-driven private mobile network offering designed to merge 5G mobile networking with more traditional enterprise networking. The company has ...

Gigs AG, a company that has built a kind of operating system for mobile services, said today it has closed on a $73 million round of funding. The Series B round was led by Ribbit Capital and saw ...

There’s been a lot of excitement in some quarters around Google’s decision to enable near-field communications (NFC) data-sharing in Android 4 “Ice Cream Sandwich.” The news builds on Research in ...

With more and more people relying on their mobile devices as their primary communications tool, whether they are smart phones or feature phones, the mobile Web is becoming increasingly important. But ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Mobile social networking is a small part of the way people use their cell phones, but industry officials expect that use will grow, and not just for teenagers who want to text their ...

Google has acquired a mobile social networking startup called Zingku, the search company’s latest move to provide more services through mobile phones. Zingku aims to make it easier for people to share ...