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*It happens! Companies, bloggers, and the like fake YouTube views. It’s been proven. Recently, 2 billion fake views were discovered among record company sites. The Daily Dot reported that Google (which owns YouTube) promised to purge those phony folks. As a result, media giants like Universal Music Group lost 1 billion of its 7 billion [...]
*NBC’s “The Voice” kicks off a three-nighter tonight with the top 16 competing live for viewer votes. It’s been an emotional ride for the contestants thus far, and the show’s Social Media Correspondent Christina Milian has been riding shotgun alongside the singers through every step of the process – from the auditions through the battle [...]
*Yep, you read it right. Mrs. Jada Pinkett-Smith is using her experiences with life, love and family to help other women live their lives correct. Lately, the pint-sized ball o’ fire has been taking to Facebook to bare her thoughts on the subjects. You might recall a while back she posited herself proudly on a soapbox [...]
*Paula Patton stars in a new film that dramatizes what happens when our obsession with social media and technology goes too far. “Disconnect,” opening this Friday from director Henry Alex Rubin, is described in its tagline as “a drama centered on a group of people searching for human connections in today’s wired world.” Patton’s character [...]
*The Pew Research Center just released a report that breaks down the use of social media among race, gender and geographic location. While 67 percent of the online population overall uses Facebook, the demographic portrait of the smaller services varies greatly, according to the survey that shows its first comparisons of usage by whites, blacks [...]
*Facebook and Twitter finally have some competition for their millions of members …real competition. Teenagers are taking to a new iPhone app called Pheed like a fish to water. The site was launched in November and it can now boast over a million members. It’s kicked Facebook and Twitter out of the top spots for [...]
*Faithful longtime girlfriend, Gabrielle Union, is speaking out against the rumors about Dwyane Wade having a groupie jump off chick. A woman wrote an open letter about creeping with the Miami Heat star while he’s been with Gabby. But the actress isn’t sweating it too much. She did, however, take to Twitter, calling the chick crazy. “Dear [...]
*As the semester comes to an end, December graduates will enter the workforce. Armed with resume in hand, graduates must remember employers will also ask to look at their social media sites. Social media has consistently evolved since the start of MySpace has in 2003, leading to Facebook launching in 2004, and Twitter in 2006. [...]
*Let’s take a step away from the election for a moment and remember that President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are parents of a teenage girl, Malia. In a recent interview with MTV’s Sway, pops revealed the scariest thing right now about having a 14-year-old is Facebook. Not only is she a teen, [...]
*A judge ruled on Friday that attorneys for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch leader charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, is allowed access to the late teen’s school records and social media accounts, reports NBC News. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Circuit Judge Debra Nelson, who is the new presiding [...]
*Chris Brown is always up to something new and different. What now? The mega music star recently launched the new Chris Brown Channel on Qubeey, the browser-free technology platform that is revolutionizing access to the Internet and luring stars by the dozen. Chris Brown’s Qubeey channel is a customized micro-site that gives fans instant access [...]
*Pharrell Williams is expanding his business portfolio with the launch of a new social media program. The rapper/producer has teamed with United Entertainment Group to create “I Am Other,” which is targeted toward musicians, filmmakers, designers, artists and innovators. Further details beyond the below promo video have yet to be announced. But according to Variety, [...]
*“Think Like a Man’s” astonishing $33.6 million opening weekend didn’t just shock box office watchers. One of the film’s standout stars, actor-comedian Kevin Hart, says the film did much better than he expected. “I knew the movie was going to do well because it was tracking well,” he tells EW, “but we were thinking in [...]
*Stop the presses; Beyonce has joined the social media age. The notoriously private entertainer has today joined Twitter, Tumblr and launched her own website. She announced the moves with her first tweet: As press time, with just one tweet in the twitterverse, the @Beyonce account already had more than 3.5 million followers. Beyonce is also now [...]
*Our first lady has entered the social media age. Sasha and Malia may not be able to start their own Facebook pages, but their mama joined Twitter today, with the introductory tweet: ”We’re excited today to launch @michelleobama as a new way for you to connect with First Lady Michelle Obama and the President’s campaign.” [...]
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