Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote and Paul François Fournier, EVP at Orange, took to the stage at LeWeb 2011 to announce the service's very first European partnership which will see the...

Read More: Evernote partners with Orange, gives subscribers a years free access to Evernote Premium

We first reported on Repudo back in October, and it's a service that allows you to place a ‘gift' for another person at a specific location, with that person collecting...

Read More: EMI band ‘You Me At Six’ partners with location-based gift app Repudo for UK promo

Facebook will partner up with the U.S. Labor Department to help users who are unemployed find jobs. The social networking site has over 800 million users, and that would certainly amount to a lot of professional networking.

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Facebook has recently partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Opower to develop a social energy application. Energy gone...

Read More: Facebook partners with Opower & NRDC to create a social energy application

YouTube has just become the next site to hop on the social commerce bandwagon with the announcement that they are launching a new feature called the Merch Store through which YouTube partners can offer merchandise directly from their channels.  The store will be rolled out over the coming weeks, starting with music partners.  Through the Merch Store, fans will be able to buy anything from digital downloads, concert tickets, meetups, t-shirts and more.


Read More: YouTube Launches Merch Store, Lets Music Partners Sell Merchandise On Their Channels

Appysnap, an app that sets regular photography challenges to its users, has now expanded to Android, following its iPhone launch back in June. As on the iPhone, the Android app...

Read More: Photography game Appysnap hits Android, partners with ShareMyPlaylists

Appysnap, an app that sets regular photography challenges to its users, has now expanded to Android, following its iPhone launch back in June. As on the iPhone, the Android app lets users collect points and win prizes for successfully completing challenges which are regularly pushed to them. Challenges can be anything from ‘Take a photo [...]

Read More: Photography game Appysnap hits Android, partners with ShareMyPlaylists

Facebook is announcing a partnership with security firm Websense today, in order to protect its users from dangerous links that lead to malicious websites and malware sites. Going forward, when a Facebook user clicks on a link, the new system will first check the link against Websense's system to determine whether or not it's safe. If it's not, a message is displayed warning the user that the link is potentially harmful and suggests you return to the previous page.

Read More: Facebook Partners With Websense To Protect Users From Malicious Sites And Malware

Facebook may be in the news and on everyone's mind because of the new Facebook Timeline, but here's a new reason to be talking about the company. Today (September 26), Facebook, the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a joint press release announcing their partnership. Their joint effort is ...

Read More: Facebook Partners Up to Help Small Businesses, Offering Up to $10 Million in Ad Credit

I love Yvo Schaap, even though I've never met him in person.

Wanna know why? Because the man keeps on digging up interesting stuff by simply perusing code, and then alerting us.

Schaap found the embeddable +1 button and a a link to the Google Games logo before either of them was publicly released, and now he may have identified several companies that will be partnering with Facebook for the imminent launch of the latter's Music service (which may be called Vibes).

Read More: SoundCloud, Deezer And Rhapsody Revealed As Facebook Music Launch Partners?

Everloop, a social media site for kids under 13, recently announced that they will be aligning with National Geographic’s Animal Jam and Mattel’s Monster High. Everloop's safe and secure network for tween socializing will provide National Geographic and Mattel a cool platform for interactivity with their kid-centric content. More after the jump.

Read More: Tween Social Media Site Everloop Partners With Mattel And National Geographic

Earlier this month, the London based program Apps for Good splashed the pages of The Next Web in our story, Apps For Good turns teens into mobile app developers for a better future.We interviewed the program's CEO Iris Lapinski, a driven, brilliant entrepreneur who is literally changing the world through CDI Europe‘s open sourced education program that teaches underprivileged young adults how to build and market mobile applications. Today, Apps For Good is announcing its partnership with F [...]

Read More: Apps for Good partners with Facebook to teach young adults how to build social applications

The social media site started by three entrepreneurial moms and geared toward kids younger than 13 years of age, Everloop.com, announced a new partnership today with two globally recognized kids' brands, National Geographic’s Animal Jam and Mattel’s Monster High.

Read More: Kids Network Everloop Partners with Nat Geo & Mattel

Published by Hearst Magazines, Car and Driver, the world's largest automotive magazine, has just partnered up with Cie Games' Car Town Facebook game, the #1 automotive social game. The integrated partnership kicks off this week and extends into 2012.


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Vodafone is all set to bring its Vodafone 555 Blue phone to India, according to the website CrazyEngineers. Featuring a dedicated button to access the world’s most popular social networking website, the Facebook Phone is expected to be cheaply priced when it goes on sale.First, the raw specs: it has a 2.4-inch QVGA display (no touchscreen) with a resolution of 320×240 pixels and a full QWERTY keypad. It has the standard connectivity options like Bluetooth, GPRS and EDGE, but it does not do [...]

Read More: Vodafone partners with Facebook to launch its ‘Facebook Phone’ in India