Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo’s house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO’s tenure, the internet company is pulling support for 10 of its less-popular mobile apps.

The social network Twitter is facing a storm of criticism from users, after revealing that it has implemented a system that would let it withhold particular tweets from specific countries.

Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile phone users’ telephone numbers to websites they visited via O2’s mobile data network.

This week saw a number of developments at Twitter and Facebook, two of the world’s biggest social networking sites, that are signs of them looking to capitalize more on their already-hefty user bases by creating services that keep them on their sites for longer.

Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta Monday.

Hispanics, according to Nielsen, have the second-highest penetration of smartphone usage among U.S. ethnic groups, and today brings news of a news app specifically targeting that demographic: Univision is launching its first news app, “Noticias Univision,” based on the broadcaster’s TV brand and website of the same name. It is…

This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. According to figures from ZenithOptimedia, global advertising revenues will reach $486 billion…

Late on Tuesday Andy Rubin, SVP of Mobile and Android head honcho for Google (NSDQ: GOOG), gave the world the latest figures on how much Android has grown since first getting launched in October 2008. There are now 700,000 device activations per day, he said—a new milestone for the platform,…

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…

Twitter’s slick new redesign has brought it – visually and practically – closer to China’s most dynamic microblogging platform, Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) Weibo. It shows, perhaps, that Sina’s rapid rate of change on its most popular service is now actually leading the way for Twitter. How the tables have turned!

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…

Another step in Twitter’s mobile acquisition trail: the microblogging and messaging service has acquired Whisper Systems, a enterprise mobile security specialist whose products have been used, among others, by people during the Arab Spring uprising to safeguard the privacy of their communications.

Facebook’s annual conference, F8, was pretty thin on mobile news, but a news item today demonstrates how it’s not far out of Facebook’s sites, and also how third parties could play a big role in how Facebook goes mobile in the future. Gemalto, a company that makes SIM cards for…

As the tech press converge to hear the latest from Facebook at its f8 developer confab today, millions of Facebook users are already grappling with a cascade of change. Is there more to come? Oh, yes—and we’ll have on-the-scene insights from our mobile editor Tom Krazit in San Francisco and…

Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), the multinational operator with mobile networks spanning across Europe and Latin America, is now fully focused on squeezing more revenue out of its substantial assets. After a month in which it formed a new business unit, Telefonica Digital, to further this strategy, the operator is rolling out…

Two prominent members of Twitter’s board of directors—Fred Wilson and Bijan Sabet—are stepping down from their roles overseeing a company that has carved out quite an influential space on the Internet.

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » More news on the next iPhones: Production of a less expensive model that looks like the current iPhone 4 is well underway and aiming for 10 million or more units. But the new “iPhone 5”, with tapered edges is…

There is no scrolling on Flipboard—that’s rule number one, said Mike McCue, the social reader’s CEO, in a conversation with paidContentUK’s Robert Andrews at the paidContent Advertising conference.

Facebook has had a lot of scrutiny over how it uses information about you to market to you, but we have only started to scratch the surface of what might come, according to Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s global VP of marketing solutions, who was interviewed today by ContentNext editor Staci D.…