Some revealing numbers out from the analysts at Rutberg & Co. that point to how big mobile is in terms of tech investments today, and how consumer applications are the source of the most action at the moment.

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has an image police - but an arrest they have made may be mistaken. A blogger using its SkyDrive cloud storage service says it froze his account when it confused a famous work of art with pornography.

Evernote has been one of the darlings of the app revolution, with a popular free service across multiple plaforms and used for all manner of quick note-taking, both audio and textual, which is then stored in the cloud for access anywhere. Now Evernote appears to be getting a little more…

Facebook unveiled a new version of its social-media platform Thursday designed to help media companies and social-application developers encourage Facebook users to share more details about their lives. The new Open Graph and several varieties of Facebook applications were joined by a redesigned version of the Facebook profile called the…

Corbis and the user-contributed photojournalism site Demotix are expanding the syndication deal they struck in March in to an investment. The photo agency giant has made an investment of an undisclosed size in the London-based service.

News media this week reported next year’s London Olympics will allow athletes to tweet from the Summer Games. In fact, that consent was contained in general guidelines applying to all social media, which were issued to athletes back in May and which themselves are a variant of guidelines issued for…

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…

Latest in the long line of consumer brands trying to leverage social media is Unilever, which is hoping a new mobile app to aggregate users’ social streams can make for a marketing campaign for one of its brands.

“18hrs in. 1st exp needs tutorial. finding people must get easier. UI too minimal. long road. grt people. lots of capital. #wecandobetter” That was the tweet made by Bill Nguyen, one of the founders of the app Color on its first day on the Android and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) app…

The Press Association Images news photo agency says it will distribute photos from the “citizen journalism” service Demotix - the agency’s first such deal.

The former CEO of voicemail firm SpinVox has resigned after four months as CEO of a social media startup, which has bought out another web firm despite being in worsening financial difficulty.

Digital cameras can tell a head from a bed, Facebook organises photos by manually-added face tags, iPhoto tries its best to put a name to a face. But really good technology to auto-identify the people in pictures could have big application on the web.

News aggregator Daylife will begin reselling pictures posted by users of London-based citizen-photo journalism site Demotix to create an “open image wire service.” The arrangement is an expansion of Daylife’s existing image programs. Last fall, Daylife began partnering with Getty Images—which is also an investor in Daylife—on products that lets…

Flickr and Facebook have proved that people like sharing photos online. Now Nikon is betting that people want to show them on real-world surfaces, too. Its new Coolpix compact digital camera includes a built-in projector for displaying images on walls, tables and, if this video starring generic partying hipsters is…

Mathys van Abbe, CEO of Dutch mobile media social sharing platform Mobypicture, tells Intruders.tv of plans to get UK business and whether the company will need financing…

Hyderabad, India-based mobile content distributor IMI Mobile is buying Mobytec, the operator of mobile backup and content sharing service Mobyko, intending to pitch it to carriers as a consumer social media aggregation service. No acquisition price was disclosed. Mobyko is a bit like Zyb, which Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) bought in…

Charging for apps may just be the wave of the future, according to Chris Wade, the brand new CEO of Shozu, whose application allows users to upload content on their phones to content sharing sites—such as Flickr and Facebook—on the internet. Though there’s been much debate about whether its only…

After rumored reports last week on NYC-based online photo sharing site Fotolog being acquired, the company has officially announced it: it has been bought by Hi Media (Paris:FR0000075988), a Paris-based interactive media company for about $90 million, in cash plus stock. Hi-Media is an online ad network/agency and a micropayments…

Photoways Group, a French provider of online photo services, has raised about $13 million in a second round funding. HarbourVest Partners led the deal, and was joined by previous backers Index Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. Two years ago, Index and Highland helped Photoways secure a $29 million first round…