Grown Ups Obsess Over Facebook While Teens Are Sick of Blogging And Twitter
More good news for Facebook: Among adults, Facebook is currently the most commonly used online social network, according to a new study.Among the aged 30 and over crowd, 73% have a profile on Facebook. As for 18-29 year olds, 71% of them have Facebook profiles, too.
Posted: February 5th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Sun CEO’s Lame Twitter Haiku Is Precisely Why He Had To Sell To Oracle
“Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more
Posted: February 5th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Op-Ed Contributor - Microsoft’s Creative Destruction - NYTimes.com
AS they marvel at Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, the technorati seem to be focusing on where this leaves Amazon’s popular e-book business. But the much more important question is why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer brings us the future, whether it’s tablet computers like the iPad, e-books like Amazon’s Kindle, smartphones like the BlackBerry and iPhone, search engines like Google, digital music systems like iPod and iTunes or popular Web services like Facebook and Twitter.
Posted: February 5th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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TheFunded Ranks The Most Loved VCs Of 2009
Some VCs are getting an early Valentine’s Day gift fromTheFunded, the site where CEOs rate venture capitalists and their firms. Below you will find the top-ranked individual VCs, as determined by their ratings in 2009. What makes this ranking particularly useful to entrepreneurs is that it is ratings by other CEOs, often CEOs who have had direct dealings with the VCs they are rating.
Posted: February 3rd, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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The Search Agency Highlights Growth In Revenues, Jobs | socalTECH.com
Santa Monica-based The Search Agency joins a number of privately held, Southern California firms this week reporting strong growth in 2009. According to the company, which provides search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), and other related online marketing services, it had revenue growth of 37% in 2009, and hired more than 40 additional employees.
Posted: January 27th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Facebook Wants To Sell Its Own Ads, Pushes Microsoft Aside
Facebook has stopped using Microsoft’s banner ads for international markets, and it plans on doing the same with domestic advertising.Microsoft’s VP of ad sales Robin Domeniconi tells Bloomberg Facebook wants to sell its own ads.
When Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook back in 2007 at a $15 billion valuation, part of its deal involved selling ads.
Posted: January 21st, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Apple Continues To Dominate AdMob’s Mobile Ad Business
Mobile ad network AdMob had its biggest month ever in December, delivering 11.5 billion ad requests, an increase of 1.73 billion from the month prior.Of those requests, 46.8% come from smartphones around the world.
Posted: January 21st, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Advertising Won’t Bounce Back Until The Second Quarter
Despite all the talk about upticks and turnaround in the U.S. advertising market, don’t hold your breath for a rebound in the first quarter of this year, a new forecast is warning. If you can hold your breath until the second quarter, on the other hand, you might be in luck.Revenue for U.S. media suppliers will total $36.8 billion for the first quarter of 2010, according to Magna, the Interpublic Group of Cos. forecasting unit. That’s down 3% from $38 billion for the same time last year — a time that already felt pretty awful.
Posted: January 20th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Indian SMS-Based Social Network GupShup Raises $12 Million
GupShup, India’s largest social network, announced a $12 million series D round of funding this morning, bringing its total funding to date up to $37 million.
Posted: January 20th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Dropbox Announces 4 Million Users, Hires A VP From Salesforce
File sharing and synchronization service provider Dropbox this morning announced that it has passed the 4,000,000 user milestone. The startup, recently crowned the Best Internet Application at the Crunchies 2009 awards ceremony, has also announced that it has hired a VP from Salesforce.com to lead its marketing and sales efforts going forward.
Posted: January 20th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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