Professor Voices » Facebook http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices Opinions and views by Boston University experts Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:10:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Is Google+ the next Facebook? http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/08/17/is-google-the-next-facebook/ http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/08/17/is-google-the-next-facebook/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:22:15 +0000 Kira Jastive http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/?p=2573 Google+ has been gaining popularity as a new social network, but will it dethrone Facebook?  According to Mina Tsay, assistant professor of communication at Boston University, the potential is there. 

Tsay’s research focuses on the psychological and social effects of mass media, and the psychology of new and social media.  Contact her at 617-353-3482; minatsay@bu.edu.


]]> http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/08/17/is-google-the-next-facebook/feed/ 0 Yahoo may quit Japan http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/03/02/yahoo-may-quit-japan/ http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/03/02/yahoo-may-quit-japan/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:35:17 +0000 Jo Breiner http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/?p=569 Boston University School of Management professor N. Venkat Venkatraman is available to offer expert analysis on a report that Yahoo is in talks to exit its Japanese joint venture. The move would make an estimated $8 billion available to Yahoo to fight Google and Facebook.

Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, venkat@bu.edu, Twitter: @nvenkatraman


]]> http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/03/02/yahoo-may-quit-japan/feed/ 0