A New Study Reveals That E-mail Still Carries a Lot of Clout With Consumers — More So Than Social Networking, Even; The Study Has Won a Comment From Rich Gorman

Google+ is a social networking platform that is becoming more vital for online business marketing.

Social networking giant needs to better educate local marketers on benefits of both online and mobile ads through physical relationships to better monetize markets.

Sudy Bharadwaj is a co-founder and the CEO of Jackalope Jobs, a web-based platform that combines search, social networking, and the overall user’s experience to provide relevant job openings. Learn how Sudy and Jackalope Jobs obsess over job seekers by connecting with them on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado Strawberry Days, meet the 21st century. Colorado's oldest civic celebration, dating back to 1898, is now incorporating modern-day influences such as social networking and American Idol? to celebrate Glenwood Springs' biggest event this weekend.

Pranshu Diwan, who runs Travel Another India, a tourism outfit, found that his company could tap a wider set of travellers looking for offbeat destinations on the largest social networking platform Facebook.

Social networking giant Twitter filed suit in federal court in San Francisco on Thursday against "five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers," in an effort to battle spam that its users receive.

AUGUSTA — U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, who has a Facebook page with nearly 4,700 "likes," invited representatives of the social networking giant to the city Tuesday to help teach Maine business owners how to turn virtual likes and fans into customers.

Up, down, and all-around: If it wasn’t for that fact that Klout’s social networking measurements actually mattered, we could just ignore its latest scoring gyrations, but they do.

One of the dirty little secrets of the current social-networking mania is that users of services such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr give away their content while the shareholders of the companies are busy getting obscenely rich.