Twitter Partnership With Fuse Flips Social TV Scenario, Placing Twitter In The Driver’s Seat [VIDEO] + MORE

Streaming live on The Next Web, HopeMob founder Shaun King will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) Thursday, April 25th. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Shaun will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site…

Yesterday, social media controlled the stock market .
A breaking news tweet was posted to @AP, the Associated Press’s main account, reporting two explosions had gone off at the White House and President Barack Obama was injured.
The fake tweet, racked up thousands of retweets and instantly sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 140 points…

With 20 years of experience, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher has seen more than her fair share of digital scandals. However, she calls the recent lashing blogger Adria Richards took after she tweeted about sexual harassment at a tech conference an especially unfortunate one for all parties involved…

Facebook has hired the team behind Spaceport, a framework for developers to publish their games across platforms, a company spokesperson tells us. Spaceport also announced the news today on its website.
Spaceport, which is part of Sibblingz, allows developers to create cross-platform games using a single codebase and without Adobe Air, which is known to be slow and unreliable…

Facebook has added a new icon to News Feed posts to indicate whether the user is available to chat.
If a user is online, a green dot will appear next to their name along with their post. Users can click the green dot to open up a chat window and start a conversation. This could encourage users to start private messages with friends after they see one of their posts in the feed…

Salesforce brands paid media offering as Social.com
Salesforce.com today introduced Social.com, a social advertising application to create and optimize social ad campaigns at scale. Salesforce has Facebook and Twitter Ads API access through its acquisition of Buddy Media, which had previously acquired ad platform Brighter Option…

Facebook has updated the Power Editor and Ads API to give advertisers a new placement option: “feature phones only.”
Feature phones, like smartphones, have had ads in News Feed for the past year. These include Sponsored Stories, Page Post Ads and the “Pages You May Like” module…

This sponsored post is produced by Elizabeth Priestman, CMO of Fuse Powered.
If you’ve ever worn the hat of “user acquisition” manager, you’re already familiar with the challenges and complexities of acquiring players for mobile games. When it comes right down to it, there are only three ways to acquire players; 1) they respond to your marketing campaigns (paid), 2) they discover you in the store (organic) or 3) they hear about your game from their friends (social)…

Australian authorities have arrested who they claim is a 24-year-old “self-proclaimed leader” of the LulzSec hacking group, which has taken credit for several high-profile hacks and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Police first became suspicious of the suspect, who works in the Information Technology field, earlier this month following an investigation into a compromised government website…

The makers of Just Sing It have announced that they raised $1 million in funding.
I wrote about the app when it launched earlier this month. At the time, CEO Alec Andronikov told me that his vision is to create a truly addictive social experience — users don’t just share karaoke performances, they actually play a game where they have to guess what the other person is singing, and they can win virtual coins that unlock additional content…

We KNEW Twitter was coming for you, TV – and we told you so. And now that day has arrived. 
In a new partnership announced today, Twitter is officially, aggressively moving to forever flip the Social TV phenomenon by showing that Twitter can (and should) drive conversation on TV – not the other way around…

Following the announcement of mobile ads, Tumblr today released a new version of its iOS app, adding several new social and usability features.
Although readers were previously able to reblog posts on the platform, there wasn’t an easy way to share them with friends on social networks. Recognizing that content thrives beyond the platform, Tumblr has enabled Twitter and Facebook sharing features which are now embedded in the app…