The TV engagement product co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer chief Anthony Rose launched on Thursday evening to ride the booming trend in two-screen social TV interaction.

Social referrals are driving up online video consumption, while TV viewers are increasingly multi-tasking, according to two separate research pieces from YouGov and Hitwise published on Monday. Here, we digest the key points…

New initiatives from Open Road Integrated Media and Wattpad hope to draw teen readers in with webisodes, music videos, “triggered events” and other digital goodies. The strategy for Open Road’s project: Everything is new. The strategy for Wattpad’s project: We’re taking something old and making it new and free.

Facebook has had a lot of scrutiny over how it uses information about you to market to you—something that has only been heightened the introduction of “frictionless” sharing launched at this year’s f8 developer conference. Well, get ready for more. Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s global VP of marketing solutions, said at…

The Sun is understood to be ready to relaunch its Sun Online website in the next few days. It is closing its five-year-old reader community MySun ahead of making changes to its core Sun Online, the publisher announced.

As if to prove that Facebook’s F8 announcements were truly seismic we are still feeling the aftershocks now. Interestingly, though, it is Spotify that is feeling most of the effect of Facebook’s moves towards becoming a 21st Century Portal.

Yes, the new Facebook changes have caused a typical storm of user outrage: “You’ve changed things! How dare you!” But I think this storm is different this time.

Mark Zuckerberg must have something big up his sleeve for Thursday’s f8. Facebook on Tuesday night unveiled the third – and biggest – update to the social network in 10 days, with a real-time “ticker” that you might have read about in the Guardian on Monday.

Dublin- and Rome-based blog network and Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) lookalike Populis is buying its second blog network of the year.

They may not have produced a band as big as The Beatles, and may bear some responsibility for the musical output of Claude Francois, but the French are hoping that a little of their savoir faire could help boost the fortunes of the struggling UK music industry.

The moment David Cameron uttered those troublesome words, “social media”, during Thursday’s emergency Commons debate on England’s riots, it was clear that the mob of social media aficionados would revolt.

“Wouldn’t it be interesting”, I thought, “if I did a little map of where the riots are?” So, at 6 o’clock or so last night, I started to put this map together. It quickly became clear that the one or two riot hotspots I was expecting were not, quite, how…

Online ad firm Specific Media has agreed to take MySpace off News Corp.‘s hands for between $35 and $40 million, according to AllThingsD and the WSJ. News Corp., which was seeking about $100 million for MySpace, will retain a minority stake in the social net. MySpace has officially confirmed the…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched yet another project geared at making its search engine a more social beast. The awkwardly titled Google+ went live as an invitation-only “field test” Tuesday with the goal of allowing users to share information within self-determined groups of connections called “circles,” and is aimed squarely…

RenRen - “the Chinese Facebook” - expects to make $30 million revenue during the quarter in which it went public on the Nasdaq last month.

Glam Media has acquired Britain’s BabyWorld community site, a purchase that’s meant to both spur the company’s growth in the “family/parenting” vertical and solidify its presence in the UK. The deal also reflects a growing consolidation within the mom-blogs segment, as advertisers and brands follow female consumers into the space.…

LinkedIn was born eight years ago today, in Reid Hoffman’s living room. While the social network now adds a million new members each week, it wasn’t always such smooth sailing; the company has had layoffs and seen a CEO shuffle—Jeff Weiner replaced Hoffman, who replaced Dan Nye, who replaced, well,…

Despite its running costs having been cut in a recent restructure, ongoing falling advertising and search income at MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) was the primary reason for Q3 losses in News Corp.‘s Other segment growing by a tenth from last year, to $165 million.

Bebo gained only a brief fillip when private equity firm Criterion took it off AOL’s hands in June 2010. Check out its traffic over the period…