Euro 2012; Who did you cheer for?

We bet all Spaniards and Spanish fans are still celebrating yesterday’s magnificent 4-0 win over Italy in the European Championship football finale. From the data unveiled by Twitter, it seems soccer fans beat sports-related tweets after an estimated number of 15,358 tweets per second at peak. The incredible record was…

Hurray! It is Social Media Day!

If you are one of the 56% of social media users that have admitted to using channels to spy on their partners, then you can rejoice; you have a special day to celebrate today since it is Social Media Day! Mashable launched Social Media Day 3 years ago, in 2010…

Poke to unlock; the next Facebook phone?

Well, the Olympics haven’t even started yet, but it seems as though the long jump competition is already off to a kick start. Facebook has certainly captivated headlines recently, with its $1 billion Instagram purchase in April, its sudden comment-censorship in May and of course the much deliberated IPO just…

While Facebook says “I do”, Microsoft says : ” I object” !

“Oh my God, not another social network site!” Those were our exact thoughts when we first read about Microsofts’s So.cl ( pronounced “social” ) being launched yesterday. With Facebook, Twitter and G+, it is getting rather hectic trying to manage all of one’s accounts. It seems that everyone wants a…

It’s raining…Zucker-Buck!

This week is certainly one that will go down in history for Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg; turning 28, taking Facebook public at a $ 104 billion valuation but most importantly marrying recently medical UC San Francisco graduate, and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan. Now that Facebook Inc. has become a public…