Social Networking

For those social networking buffs, pre-orders for the HTC Status has finally begun. The smart phone featuring the Facebook button was announced in late June. We here at climbthenet.com did an article on the features of the new AT&T smart phone. We are now happy to announce that the HTC Status will arrive on July [...]

The social media site MySpace is being purchased by advertising firm, Specific Media today for $35 million dollars in a sale that should be completed by the closing of business. MySpace was bought in 2005 by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation for $580 million dollars in order to help Fox TV and Media get more traffic. [...]

Warner Brothers will soon be offering a select list of movies through Facebook in hopes to compete with other video-rental companies. The offer made by Warner Brothers was down without the help of Facebook staff. Analyst say that this will give Netflix competition as they have changed their rental plans promoting customers to watch more [...]

The upgrading of Google Social Search was soon forgotten as Microsoft Bing released an updated version of their Bing Bar with Facebook integrations. The integrations allows Bing users to receive news feeds notifications, alerts, and other messages in a tool bar powered by Bing. Google launched the Social Search with the objectives to help raise [...]

Companies like JP Morgan Chase and Facebook are hoping  to stay ahead of the curve as more investors are getting excited about social networking. As a result JP Morgan plans to start new funding plan to allow customers to invest in various Internet and media companies. The social media fund proposed will be overseen by [...]