I’ve been sucked into image collecting and sharing site Pinterest for hours on end, but my NYC location makes me a less than typical user: New statistics from Experian Hitwise suggest the average Pinterest user is more likely to live in the Southeast or Northwest than the average social network…

Social content site BuzzFeed is the latest company to release a version of its app especially for the Kindle Fire.

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…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) decided its Google+ social network was ready to take a big step on Tuesday: it’s now open to the public and no invitation is required. The company also released over a dozen new features designed to make it easier to use the software on mobile devices and…

It has been a lucrative couple of years for companies seeking funding armed with a powerfully simple idea: sharing exactly where you are and what you’re doing with friends or colleagues using a mobile phone and a data connection. A company called Trover hopes to join that group by catering…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: —Apple Patents: Just as Apple is fighting patent battles on multiple fronts, some upheaval in its ranks. Richard “Chip” Lutton Junior, who manages the iPhone patent portfolio, has apparently left Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). BJ Watrous, who had once worked…

Mika Salmi described the new backers of PressPlane, the parent company of new mobile app Zapd, as a “who’s who” of Seattle in a note to me and he wasn’t joking. Madrona Capital and Real Networks founder Rob Glaser led the Seattle-based startup’s $3.5 million second round for a total…

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…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: —iCloud: The good news for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is that 76 percent of iPhone owners say they will be using iCloud and 30 percent will even give iTunes Match a spin. The bad news is that Apple seems to…

Fail whale no more. Some big inroads for Twitter today in its bid to make its own basic services more appealing to users than using third-party clients, and a breath of life for two other companies in the process: the microblogging site today finally unveiled its new, native image app…

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…

Are you spotting a trend here? Hot on the heels of mobile photo sharing site Path picking up nearly $9 million in funding, Instagram, another photo-sharing app, has picked up $7 million for itself, with the financing being led by Benchmark Capital.

Photo sharing app Path has secured a Series A round of financing worth $8.65 million, with investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures and Asian VC firm Digital Garage Japan. 

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.

Nearly two months after Google’s rocky introduction of ‘Buzz,’ the sharing service remains under fire from privacy advocates; eleven congressmen have written a letter to the chairman of the FTC urging the agency to investigate complaints about the service—and, perhaps more ominously for Google (NSDQ: GOOG), also look into the…

Online photo printing and sharing service Shutterfly has acquired mobile app developer Tiny Pictures. The deal, first reported by TechCrunch, calls for Shutterfly to pay $1.3 million in cash for the company and another $1.3 million in restricted stock to employees, which is contingent on certain performance targets. It’s a…

A Seattle-based company that launched earlier this year with the goal of targeting the iPhone has picked a new name and focus and has raised $3 million in fresh capital. Back in April, Zero260 created three basic photo-sharing apps for the iPhone — PhotoFeedd, TravelFeedd and CarFeedd. At the time,…