Social Media in the News July 3rd 2011

Joseph Vangieri Social media: From Iran to Tunisia and Egypt and beyond, Twitter and Facebook are the power tools of civic upheaval – but social media is only one factor in http://lnkd.in/q6FruH

Social media: Did Twitter and Facebook really build a global... csmonitor.com

Social media: From Iran to Tunisia and Egypt and beyond, Twitter and Facebook are the power tools of civic upheaval – but social media is only one factor in the spread of democratic revolution. 

Joseph Vangieri In 2005, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp paid $580 million to purchase then-hot social media site Myspace. At that time, News Corp's rival Viacom Inc also tried http://lnkd.in/EXfi5Z

Specific Media Acquires Myspace for $35 Million socialbarrel.com

Advertising company Specific Media has finalized the deal with News Corp for acquiring Myspace for $35 million, reported Reuters. The team of Specific Media and singer Justin Timberlake will acquire Myspace. For the past few... 

Joseph Vangieri Livestrong CEO Doug Ulman, left, and panel moderator Jerry Murdock listen as Lance Armstrong discusses his utilization of social media during a plenary http://lnkd.in/aaRcWG

Armstrong, panel outline power, danger of social media postindependent.com

The use of social media has helped build the Livestrong Foundation into a powerhouse but, more importantly, it's helped individual cancer victims re (read... 

  Joseph Vangieri Eager to avoid protests on the national holiday, the government on Saturday began blocking access to the social media sites used to organize the activists http://lnkd.in/jVegUd

Belarus blocks social media sites on holiday google.com