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Facebook effect: Social-media stocks soar

14, 2012, under USA Today News Facebook's hotly anticipated IPO is months away, but investors apparently can't wait that long to jump on the social-media stock bandwagon. Companies in the business of connecting people online, mainly for marketing ...

The hollow emptiness in social media numbers - most accounts are fake or empty

By Tom Foremski | February 14, 2012, 5:45pm PST Summary: Increasing numbers of studies of social networks point to much smaller numbers of real and active users ? sharply reducing the value of the platforms, and social media marketing.

FBI says social media monitoring won't infringe privacy rights

By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld - The FBI today said that its proposed plans to monitor social media sites as part of a broader strategy to improve real-time situation awareness will be fully vetted by the agency's Privacy and Civil Liberties Unit.

Epidemiologists put social media in the spotlight

?Social media is here to stay and we have to take advantage of it,? says Taha Kass-Hout, Deputy Director for Information Science at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Kass-Hout will be arguing his case for greater ...