After a prolonged district court case ordered Google to take down images that may be offensive to Muslims, Google has agreed to do just that, and has began to censor its search results to remove offensive images.   Facebook and Yahoo, also named in the case, are sticking to their guns and saying that they can’t [...]

Klout, the service which allows Twitter users to check their influence, recently got a whole dose of funding and has made their first acquisition.  They’ve acquired Blockboard, a service that allows people to easily communicate with their neighbors about anything from broken lamp posts to gossip.

Barry Diller’s IAC is reportedly looking to sell half of Vimeo. Last night PandoDaily’s Erin Griffith reported that “two sources familiar with the situation” say that IAC is pairing a spinoff of Vimeo with a $50 million round of funding

Online video platform Brightcove is going public. In an SEC filing on Monday, the company set the price range for their public offering: 5 million shares of common stock at a range of $10 to $12 per share.

Is social media a distraction for students or an integrated part of college life? This infographic shows how schools have joined their students on sites like Facebook and Twitter to make college campuses even more social.

Despite government crackdowns on social media users, social games continue to grow in China.  Sohu’s (NASDAQ: SOHU) fourth quarter financial results are in, and the largest share of the company’s revenue came from games, which brought in $123 million and showed an increase of 34 percent year-over-year and 6 percent quarter-over-quarter.

Last night’s game didn’t only beat the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards’ record of 3.1 million social media comments, it crushed the record with a whopping 12.2 million social media comments. Bluefin Labs breaks it down in 3 great infographics.

Games and social media a natural match. With the exception of solitaire, most games involve at least two players. This infographic explores some of the ways that games have found an audience on social platforms like Facebook and Google+.

Call it the Facebook effect. Ever since the social media giant announced its long-awaited IPO the many gaming companies and social applications that use its platform are rising with the tide. SNAP Interactive, Inc., the parent company of the Facebook-integrated dating app AreYouInterested.com, has already seen its stock go up 230 percent since the beginning [...]

Inside Social Apps 2012 starts in San Francisco this Wednesday! Join the industry’s leading developers on February 8-9 for two days of panels, discussions, and networking around the social and mobile app ecosystem.