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• 6 Ways You're Annoying People on Instagram

  One of the best, and most important, things about social media is that there are no hard and fast rules. Social media is what you make of it, and there's no right or wrong way to use it.

• 7 Reasons Friends Unfollow You on Facebook

  One of the best, and most important, things about social media is that there are no hard and fast rules. Social media is what you make of it, and there's no right or wrong way to use it.

• Twitter improves security for shared accounts

  Twitter is giving users what it thinks is a safer way to handle shared access to an account without compromising the login.

• LinkedIn restricts API usage

  LinkedIn is restricting access to most of its application programming interfaces (APIs) to companies that have struck up partnerships with the social networking company.

• Facebook fixes flaw that could have let hackers delete photos

  The speed at which Facebook responded to a reported security vulnerability shows how important photos have become to the site.

• Twitter acquires Niche, a social-media talent scout

  Twitter is acquiring Niche, a New York startup that matches social media stars with advertisers, helping Twitter tap into the lucrative world of Internet celebrity.

• Facebook super-sizes its open networking switch

  Facebook is taking its crusade for open networking to a broader battlefield, using its 16-port "Wedge" switch design as the basis of a new modular platform that can link together racks of servers across a data center.

• Newsweek Twitter hack is a sign of the times

  The Twitter accounts of two more companies -- Newsweek and the International Business Times -- were compromised on Tuesday, showing Twitter's attractiveness to hackers despite its cybersecurity features.

• Sidecar doubles down on delivery service

  Car-hailing app Sidecar is trying to make further inroads into same-day deliveries.

• Twitter reports huge increase in gov't data requests

  Governments are becoming hungrier for Twitter data, increasing the number of requests for user information by 40 percent between the first half and the second half of 2014.

• LinkedIn's China bet starts paying off with increase in users

  LinkedIn has doubled its user base in China from 4 million to 8 million in the year since it agreed to comply with the country's rules on censorship.

• Twitter says it lost 4 million users because of Apple iOS 8

  Twitter is fighting hard to maintain a healthy growth rate, and Apple apparently hasn't been doing much to help.

• Twitter wows on revenue but user growth drags

  Twitter nearly doubled its revenue last quarter, handsomely beating forecasts, but it continues to battle slow user growth.

• Under Armour buys two fitness apps, builds trove of health data

  Under Armour is shelling out $560 million to buy two fitness apps, giving it access to a mountain of data about health enthusiasts that it hopes will help it to sell more sportswear.

• Microsoft said to acquire calendar app Sunrise for north of $100 million

  Microsoft is said to be acquiring Sunrise Atelier, maker of a hip calendar application that could aid in jazzing up Microsoft's own software.