Here’s your weekly roundup of major news points from the social sphere:
- Where’s the POTUS right now? President Obama joins FourSquare.
- Not operating under your own name? Google+ suspends pseudonym accounts under the Common Names Policy.
- Starbucks shuts down social good experiment Jonathan’s Card after concerns of fraud and misuse.
- Buddy Media raises $54 million for international expansion.
- Hacker group Anonymous shuts down BART (again.)
- The patent wars continue: Google buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Shortly thereafter, S&P downgrades Google rating to “sell”.
- You can now launch Google+ Hangouts from YouTube.
- R.I.P. HP TouchPad & WebOS devices.
- Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice latte fans, prepare to battle: Fight to bring the popular drink to your city FIRST, on Facebook.
- R.I.P., AT&T limited texting plan.
- Are you a chronic iPhone snooze button hitter? Now you can donate all those extra snoozefests to charity!
- Is the iPad 3 coming early next year? Is the iPhone 5 coming ever?
- Popular organization app Evernote acquires image editor Skitch.
- Twitter opens up its photo-upload API to developers.
- FourSquare officially launches something we’ve been doing this whole time: event check-ins.
- Google accuses Facebook of hiding Google+ invites from users’ news feeds. Absolutely no one is surprised.
- Wondering who actually uses QR codes? Take a look at demographics here.
- T-Mobile launches its first 4G BlackBerry.
- (Plug) Our website’s up for recognition at The FWA (Favorite Website Awards.) We’d love a vote of your support!
- (Another plug) We’re up for a SXSW PanelPicker session and would love your vote there also.
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