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How Zynga, Facebook and Groupon's Go-To Auditor Rewrites Accounting Rules

This story appears in the May 7 edition of Forbes magazine on page 150. Zynga, Facebook and all use an independent auditor that is simultaneously inventing the rules for social media accounting. Somewhere, Arthur Andersen is shuddering.

On Twitter: Only 36 percent of tweets worth reading

Those mediocre updates about choosing a food truck for lunch, complaining about work, or a link to the same viral video you saw a month ago: No, it’s not just you rolling your eyes and scrolling quickly.

Md. becomes first to OK password protection bill

Maryland is poised to become the first state to ban employers from demanding applicants or workers hand over their log-in information for social media sites like Facebook....

Opinion: Marine's comments go too far

Stein posted comments on both his personal Facebook page and on The Armed Forces Tea Party Facebook page he created, mocking the president. On those pages he referred to President Obama as a "domestic enemy," a coward, and even superimposed President Obama's face on the poster for the movie "Jackass."

Pinterest pierces the ranks of the social-networking elite

The site, which allows users to pin images of products they like on online scrapbooks, has seen its traffic grow almost sevenfold in five months and is ranked by one research firm as the No. 3 social network behind Facebook and Twitter.

LinkedIn challenger Viadeo raises $32M to take over China

Proving that second place doesn't always equate to being the first loser, the world's number two social network for professionals, Viadeo, (LinkedIn is number one), is getting $32 million in fresh financing.

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Dan Porter, CEO Of OMGPOP, Hired Back Laid-Off Workers Before $210 Million Zynga Acquisition

With all the talk about excessive compensation, ponzi schemes and the nasty side of Steve Jobs, it might be easy to assume that all successful CEOs are jerks.

AddThis Removes "via @addthis" Suffix in Tweets

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 11:24am — senh

I just noticed in the last couple of days that the sharing platform AddThis has removed “via @addthis” at the end of tweets using their widget. I use AddThis throughout the site. It’s a handy little widget that allows users to share articles through any social bookmarking/sharing site, like Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and Pinterest.

As a website owner, I use it to tweet articles to my Twitter account. I used to manually get rid of the “via @addthis” suffix each time to give me more available characters and to make the tweet cleaner.

Loyal Instagram users fret about Facebook's reach

Poor Instagram users. First, their beloved photo-sharing application moves from iPhone-only exclusivity to the Android phone masses. A week later, Facebook swallows up the tiny startup behind the app for $1 billion. The purchase sparked worries that Facebook might shutter Instagram or change it for the worse by harvesting their personal information or shoving ads into their carefully curated photo streams.

Facebook buying photo-share app Instagram for $1B

Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing company Instagram in the social network's largest acquisition ever.

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