Social networks are growing like kudzu in August. You knew that already; now the Nielsen Online folks have made it official. According to its Global Faces and Networked Places report [PDF], Netizens ...

For more than a decade, social media has operated under a simple economic logic: platforms capture value, while users generate it. The billions of posts, photos, comments, and videos that fill the ...

Online shopping and digital payment options have made shopping easier and more enjoyable—money can be spent almost unnoticeably. These factors predispose people to impulse purchases. A lack of ...

If social media apps were a high-school cafeteria, these five platforms would be the ones hogging the biggest, coolest table. In the real-world, these networks have gone from humble dorm room dreams ...

Nextdoor’s stock has plunged more than 80% since it went public in 2021. Now the company is revamping to entice users to spend more time on its app and attract advertisers. The social network for ...

A flurry of new schemes to launch Europe-based social networks faces a steep, rocky road to seduce users away from American and Asian giants in the sector. But such figures would be rounding errors to ...