Facebook has finally filed for an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. What will this mean for the users of the world’s most popular social network? (more…)
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Facebook Going Public – Top Secret?
Tuesday, 31st January 2012While it has been discussed for a long time that Facebook will go public, it now looks as though that is finally about to happen. (more…)
Tags: facebook, ipo, privacy
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Tablet Sales To Increase 5x
Friday, 30th September 2011A study conducted recently by Juniper Research has found that the sales of tablet devices is set to go up by leaps and bounds. (more…)
Tags: android, ipad, microsoft, mobile, samsung, tablet
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Bye Bye Bartz
Wednesday, 7th September 2011In what may be a surprise to many, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz has been booted out the door by the independent directors of the company. (more…)
Tags: business, search, yahoo
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Spelling Mistakes Affect Online Sales
Wednesday, 20th July 2011Spelling mistakes in shopping websites are proving to be very costly for the marketers, according to an article recently published on the BBC. (more…)
Tags: advertising, internet, seo
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Yahoo! Is Huge, Yet, Very Few Love It
Tuesday, 14th June 2011A lot of press coverage and online buzz is continuously generated surrounding the growth of sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google. In the resulting melee, Yahoo! seems to have been forgotten. (more…)
Tags: google finance, microsoft, news search, yahoo
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Is Twitter About To Overhaul Its Business?
Wednesday, 1st June 2011According to several reliable sources, Twitter is in the mood to expand their services. They are acquiring a couple of businesses and are rumoured to be changing associated services that work with the micro-blogging platform. (more…)
Tags: mergers and acquisitions, TweetDeck, twitter
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Microsoft Buys Skype For $8.5 Billion
Wednesday, 11th May 2011The popular VoIP service Skype has just been bought over by Internet giant Microsoft. The deal has been finalised for a staggering $8.5 billion. (more…)
Tags: facebook, google, mergers and acquisitions, microsoft, skype
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Google Is No Longer The Most Valuable Brand
Monday, 9th May 2011Research company Millward Brown has released its list of the 100 most valuable brands in the world and according to them Apple is now more valuable than Google. (more…)
Tags: apple, brand, china-mobile, facebook, google, microsoft, nokia
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Yelp Continues To Grow In Spite Of Google Threat
Thursday, 17th February 2011Although Yelp is facing competition from the likes of Google, Groupon and LivingSocial, it continues to do well and grow in terms of the number of users and reviews posted on the site. (more…)
Tags: geolocation, google, groupon, local-search, yelp
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Mobile Gaming Worth $6 Billion
Friday, 7th January 2011Juniper Research has released the 6th edition of their report on the future of mobile games. The report predicts that the revenue earned from in-game purchases is set to rise substantially in the coming years, and it will overtake the revenue generated through the pay-per-download system of purchase on mobiles by 2013. (more…)
Tags: gaming, mobile, mobile advertising, mobile web
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TripAdvisor Shuns Google But Ties Up With Facebook
Thursday, 23rd December 2010For the last two weeks or so, there appears to be some sort of tussle going on between Google and TripAdvisor. (more…)
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Earnings Reports Reveal Rebound In U.S. Advertising
Tuesday, 10th August 2010Reports of the quarterly earnings of various companies during the second quarter of 2010 have recently been published. These reports indicate an overall recovery in ad-generated revenue in most of the Internet, media and advertising companies. (more…)
Tags: ad, advertising, bing, fox, google, microsoft, new-york-times, time-warner, yahoo
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Yahoo! Japan Chooses Google
Wednesday, 4th August 2010Last week Yahoo! Japan confirmed that Google will be their local partner for search and ads. The announcement was made by the CEO of Yahoo! Japan, Masahiro Inoue. (more…)
Tags: google, japan, mergers and acquisitions, microsoft, yahoo
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Google AdWords Driving Export Business
Thursday, 23rd July 2009Google is driving AdWords advertising revenues by exploring some decidedly different markets. Last week we noted that they were offering Google Webmaster Tools users in France 100 € free credit on AdWords. This week they’re emailing small and medium enterprises offering advice on entering the export market. (more…)
Tags: china, export adviser, export box, google, google adwords, india, multilingual, ppc, search, search engine marketing
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