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• Action: Yahoo buys Qwiki moviemaking app

  In yet another mobile acquisition, Yahoo has acquired Qwiki, a New York City company that makes an app for turning photos and videos into short, edited movies.

• Will Instagram video weed out Vine?

  Facebook has unveiled its new video feature for Instagram, five months after Twitter launched a very similar video app called Vine. Can the rival services co-exist?

• It's true! Facebook unveils video for Instagram

  After nearly a week of speculation, Facebook announced today that Instagram, its popular photo-sharing service, now supports video.

• Facebook gets Instagram moving with video

  Facebook is adding video capability to Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service acquired by the social network last year.

• Facebook set to beef up Instagram with video?

  Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos.

• How Facebook Hashtags Impact Your Privacy

  Following in the footsteps of Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr and other social networks, Facebook finally gets hashtags. Here's what you need to know about the new feature and a look at how it does--and doesn't--impact your privacy settings.

• What a #copycat: Facebook apes Twitter with hashtags

  Hashtags, the popular tool used on Twitter and in an array of other social sites to surface content around specific topics #likeso, are coming to Facebook.

• MAKE IT STOP! 'Facebook - The Musical' and more

  A cheery new YouTube video called "Facebook - The Musical" is on its way to going viral at more than 500,000 views during its first few days on the Web, thanks to a campy crew of crooners singing the praises of the social network.

• Teens growing cool on Facebook but warming to Twitter, Pew study finds

  Some teens are growing tired of the excessive sharing and "drama" on Facebook and more are turning to sites like Twitter and Instagram to express themselves, according to a new study.

• Yahoo recruiting iOS developers to 'radically improve' Flickr

  Yahoo's Flickr mobile app may be getting a completely new look in the months to come, as the company seeks to hire multiple iOS engineers to "radically improve" the photo-sharing site's app and attract new users, the company said in a recent job notice.

• Americans spend 16 minutes of every hour online on social nets

  Americans are so fixated on social networks that they spend an average of 16 minutes out of every hour on them, according to a study by Experian Marketing Services.

• Diversifying Facebook Home could broaden its appeal, analysts say

  Facebook's Home mobile software for Android-equipped smartphones might only appeal to the most active Facebook users at first, but the company's plan to integrate third-party social services into it could broaden its appeal.

• Chirpify opens up Facebook's News Feed for business

  Facebook's News Feed is a popular landing page for photos and updates from friends, but now it can also function as a digital storefront of sorts, through a partnership with e-commerce startup Chirpify.

• #TwitterCopy! Facebook may incorporate hashtags

  Facebook reportedly is taking a page from social networking rival Twitter and may start using the hashtag.

• Thread app aims to modernize caller ID on smartphones

  Brooklyn-based Sprezzat wants to modernize caller ID for people's smartphones with a little help from Twitter and Facebook.