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Spartans’ Summers says trending on Twitter won’t affect his play EAST LANSING — Michigan State’s Durrell Summers gained some notoriety recently by trending on Twitter. It wasn’t for a good reason. Read more on The Daily Mining Gazette

Twitter co-founder says company not for sale Biz Stone, co-founder of San Francisco-based Obvious, the 10-person startup behind the popular Twitter social messaging service. Read more on North Shore News

Facebook says apps shared user data, promises fix Facebook said some of its applications violated the social networking company's policies against sharing user information, and promised to fix the problem. Read more on Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News

Facebook Can Own It Forever, James Says Omniture co-founder Josh James describes Facebook's power and the future of targeted advertising. He also explains why he left Adobe. Read more on Forbes

Twitter says suffered security attack Twitter, the popular social media website for broadcasting short messages, said Tuesday it has suffered an XSS attack, a security flaw on its website, which it is fixing with a patch after users complained. Read more on Los Angeles Times

North Korea says it has joined Twitter, YouTube North Korea appears to have ramped up its propaganda war against South Korea and the U.S. by turning to Twitter and YouTube -- websites that most citizens of the reclusive communist country are banned from viewing. Read more on AP via Yahoo! Finance

The Opportunity Facebook Provides to Engage With Fans Is Too Important to Miss, Says Sony Ericsson LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - Aug. 2, 2010) - The opportunity to engage with customers of Sony Ericsson through Facebook is becoming more significant than ever, according to the global brand, as increasing numbers of people around the world join […]

Facebook Is Driving the Divorce Rate Up, Says One Survey Spouses are arming themselves with Facebook evidence when they enter divorce court. Read more on Fox News

D.S.T. Says FaceBook Stake Now at 10 Percent Digital Sky Technologies , a group that has amassed a $1 billion-plus portfolio, has upped its stake in Facebook to 10 percent. In a profile of D.S.T.’s chief Yuri Milner, BusinessWeek reported that the company’s stake is now worth perhaps $2 billion, according to two people familiar […]

Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Pete Cashmore, founder and chief executive officer of Mashable, a Web site that tracks social media and Web 2.0, talks with Bloombergs Margaret Brennan about the value of social media of the Internet versus traditional media. Cashmore, speaking from Aberdeen, Scotland, also discusses his company's business model and goals. (Source: Bloomberg)