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• Samsung to buy Viv Labs to challenge Google Assistant

  Samsung Electronics has agreed to buy Viv Labs, an artificial intelligence startup created the team behind Siri.

• News Corp. files antitrust charges against Google in Europe

  News Corp. is fighting Google at the European Commission over what it calls improper scraping of content for use in search results, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

• Google exec fuels talk that Google+ may be split up

  Google has kicked up speculation about the future of its social network Google+.

• Why Google+ is the place for passions

  The single biggest controversy about social media, and one that has persisted for two or three years now without resolution, is whether <a href="https://plus.google.com">Google+</a> is a dying wasteland of non-activity, or a hive of conversation and engagement.

• In Pictures: 10 ways Google has failed with Google+

  Google+ was a late but welcomed arrival to social media scene about three years ago. However, Google's answer to Facebook has failed to provide real competition. Here's a look at 10 ways the search engine king as fallen down with Google+.

• Ettitude's social attitude connects with customers

  Social media has enabled online retailer Ettitude to better reach customers and increase its sale conversion rate, according to managing director Phoebe Yu.

• Tourism Northern Territory turns to social media

  In a bid to attract more international tourists to the Northern Territory (NT) the territory’s department of Tourism is turning to social media channels.

• Google+ finding its feet with businesses

  Google continues to tweak its Google+ social media platform as the company seeks to gain traction among businesses.

• Top 12 Social Media Stories of 2012

  Here's a look back at the most popular CIO.com stories and slideshows about Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter from 2012.

• Google further integrates Google+ into Gmail

  Google has started pushing its Google+ social networking service further into Gmail with new features that let users add to their circles directly from their email accounts.

• Google+ now open for businesses

  Google is now shaping its Google+ social network for commerce.

• Anonymity vs. real names on social networks

  Let's cut to the chase: This one is really about whether Facebook and the new kid on the block, Google+, should get to throw their considerable weight around by requiring that users post to their social-networking sites using real names.

• In pictures: 10 ways to enhance Google+

  Here are 10 extensions that provide useful, interesting improvements to the search giant’s social-networking site

• Competing for privacy in a social media world

  For years, Facebook users have been clamoring for better privacy controls and clarity, while Facebook engineers oscillate between improvements and major privacy snafus. Every now and then a new wave of exasperated users cry out "That's it, I'm leaving". Up to now, users really didn't have anywhere to go after quitting, so they effectively quit the social media scene, self-ostracized (MySpace is equivalent to being exiled, perhaps worse). Now that they have somewhere else to go (Google+), Facebook is ramping up its privacy controls and seems to be taking privacy more seriously. Let the privacy competition begin!

• SEO peddlers see value in Google's +1

  Search engine optimization companies have started targeting Google's +1 feature -- you can now pay companies to "+1" your website.