Google opened the gates to its social network, Google+, to everyone today and rolled out more than a dozen new features to the service, many of them aimed at mobile phone users. For 12 weeks, Google+ has been in “field trials,” Google Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra explained in...

Facebook is set to announce stronger ties to Hulu next week at its F8 developer conference, according to a report in the New York Post. Citing anonymous sources, the Post offered little detail, saying only that the social-networking giant would announce deeper integration between the two...

Much like Flickr today, Twitter is rolling out some new tools to make app building easier and more feature-friendly for developers. Dubbed as Bootstrap, the front-end toolkit is being touted by Twitter as a way for developers to build web apps “rapidly” on CSS but in a cleaner, more uniform...

Those of you relying on the kindness of strangers, or more precisely: Jonathan Stark’s Starbucks gift card, might want to bring an alternative payment method while getting your next caffeine kick. Starbucks on Friday pulled the plug on the almost month-old social experiment where a mobile developer...

Half of the friends you will add on Facebook in the future can be predicted, said Stanford University’s Jure Leskovec. He has been elected as one of this year’s recipients of the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowships. Leskovec is an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University....