People use social media to share pictures and videos, post updates, and connect with family, friends, and brands. Likewise, brands use these social media networks to grow their audiences, conduct ...

But a new category of technology platforms – known as SocialFi – aims to change that dynamic by integrating financial tools ...

Targeting only a small group of well-connected individuals with smoking reduction interventions produces the largest ...

A simple pattern links billions of people: just a few connections apart. New research suggests this may be an unavoidable ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. Idealist nerds have a long history of giving terribly confusing names to potentially revolutionary technology. So it ...

Immigrants who have supportive social networks are better able to navigate the U.S. financial system and build wealth than immigrants without supportive social networks, according to a new study led ...

As 2009 draws to a close, it’s clear that the year was a watershed for social networks and the firms that own them. The year saw major changes at sites like Facebook and Twitter as millions of ...

Social media has been a part of most of our lives now for more than two decades. But it certainly hasn’t stood still. The first social sites like Classmates and Myspace were replaced by others like ...