The beginning of 2016 hasn't been kind to investors in general, as the stock market tumbles amid concerns about the slowing economy in China and plunging oil prices.

YouTube superstar PewDiePie, a 26-year-old Swede who rose to fame with videos of himself playing video games and branched out into comedic content, has unveiled a new talent network, Revelmode, which will cultivate up-and-coming social media stars.

As more employers are turning to social media to vet job candidates, colleges and universities are doing the same for prospective students, according to Kaplan.

Employers continue to disqualify candidates based on the dumbass things they post on social media, according to a recent survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management.

Police departments around the country are using high-powered analytics software to comb social media and calculate threat levels for individual suspects before they are arrested.

Volkswagen has adopted a largely defensive stance on social media, dramatically scaling back its attempts to engage consumers and instead using its social platforms as mostly passive news channels to keep the public informed about its measures in response to the scandal.

While the number frankly strikes me as being still too low, it's encouraging to note that over half of parents with children ages 13-17 have checked their teens' social media profiles to make sure they're not doing something ill-advised and teenagery.

We're now over a decade into the social media age, but a significant proportion of social media users are still leaving themselves open to hacks, stalking and impersonation through basic errors and negligence, according to a new survey from IDC and Kaspersky Lab.

Facebook has tested a number of workarounds for its apps on Android devices in case its long-simmering rivalry with Google should escalate into an all-out struggle for control of the Internet, according to The Information, which first reported the news.

Ellen Degeneres and Jimmy Fallon dominated television-related engagement on social media by a big margin in 2015, according to new figures from social media measurement and analytics outfit ListenFirst.