You've been waiting for this moment since... about this time last week. Welcome back again to #PodcastWednesdays. This week we have #TheFashionShow with our guests Corrie Ellis (@HardwearFashion) - Head designer & Founder of Hardwear Fashion Inc, Curran J Swint (@Curran_J) - Founder/Creator ... Read more...
“Twitter is a social network and micro blogging service that allows you to answer the question, “What are you doing?” Twitter has quickly become an everyday ritual for most of us, an outlet for people to say whatever comes to mind, creating personalities that we realize people we know or k... Read more...
Chief executive officer, British Sky Broadcasting Group Nationality: British. Born: December 13, 1972, in London, United Kingdom. Education: Attended Harvard University. Family: Son of Rupert (businessman) and Anna Maria Torv Murdoch; married Kathryn Hufschmid (marketing executi... Read more...
Well, that was fast. JP Morgan has acquired a significant amount of Twitter shares through secondary markets and is in talks with Twitter for a direct investment, the WSJ says.Meanwhile Michael Arrington at TechCrunch says Twitter isn't interested in a direct investment but JP Morgan already owns 1... Read more...
Disney just bought Togetherville, a social network for kids, TechCrunch reports. Togetherville is for kids 10 and under and works like any other social network but under parent supervision and with age appropriate content. This is almost certainly a smart move from Disney. Their business is ta... Read more...
News Corp has hired tech and media investment bank Allen & Company to sell off MySpace, the WSJ reports. Allen & Co will now schedule meetings with interested buyers, of whom there are about twenty, including financial firms. We think Zynga should buy MySpace (see below) but... Read more...

This month, we were reminded how important it is that social media companies do what they can to protect the sensitive data they hold from the prying eyes of the government. As many news outlets have reported, the US Department of Justice recently obtained a court order for records from Twitter ... Read more...
Among tech journalists, one name stands out in regards to the question of who the most powerful corporation in the tech industry is. Google has a strong 85.78% market share on Internet search, making them the primary resource for web surfers looking for information about their topics of choice. Th... Read more...

Editor's Note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He writes a weekly column about social networking and technology for CNN.com. Do you remember Bebo? AOL bought the hot social networking Web site for $850 million in 2008. This week, the company... Read more...