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Stand Back There’s A Hurricane Coming T...
Google has added weather data to its Google Earth application. As of now, the new feature only supports locations in North America and parts of Europe.
Barnes & Noble Uses its Brick & Mortar Ad...
The e-book/e-reader wars are really heating up. Amazon has plenty of good news to share around its Kindle device. Now Barnes & Noble is talking about a major push to increase Nook sales. Julie Bosman with the New York Times reports that in September, the company will start putting a great deal of emphasis on Nook in its brick and mortar stores, and that could go a long way in helping it compete with Amazon's increasingly successful Kindle.
Bitter smartphone war seen pinching vendo...
HELSINKI (Reuters) - An increasingly heated battle in the global smartphone market is set to weigh on handset vendors' profit margins for the rest of the year, analysts said on Friday.
Rumors Slate Facebook IPO For 2012
Individuals who want to invest in Facebook probably won't have an opportunity to do so for well over a year. A new, somewhat credible report indicates that the company won't go public until sometime in 2012. "Three people familiar with the matter" spoke to Bloomberg, and said the delay will give Mark Zuckerberg "more time to gain users and boost sales." The second part of that claim is believable; the first half, less so. But Bloomberg presumably wasn't just interviewing random grocery shoppers in Palo Alto, and the article continued, ...
Why Apple Should Buy Infineon: To Own Mob...
Apple’s earnings and revenue growth in mobile have been awe-inspiring to witness. From zero presence three years ago, Apple is now the most profitable cell phone maker in the world. Apple’s success in this compressed period has helped it become an enormous buyer of components. In fact iSuppli projects that next year Apple will become the second-largest semiconductor buyer worldwide and may edge out HP in 2012 to become the world’s largest. Though this scale presents Apple with enormous bargaining power, it also begs the question: Should Apple own its own wireless chip development?
Microsoft Will Have Answers to the iPad. ...
Microsoft feels threatened by the iPad. That was made clear by the words of CEO Steve Ballmer at Microsoft's financial analysts meeting. Microsoft intends to come out swinging with Windows-based iPad rivals. It's just a matter of when, and if customers will have anywhere near the same enthusiasm they have had for the ipad. Of course, Microsoft isn't the only company that has to worry about winning that enthusiasm. Any other player in the tablet market has a lot to live up to after the iPad's phenomenal sales. However, whereas Google, for example, may be able to ride on some of the building enthusiasm for the Android operating system, Microsoft is hoping familiarity with Windows will be the ticket.
Google Advertising Google Image Ads With ...
As we know with the new Google Image redesign that Google would be pushing image ad formats for image search. Yesterday, I was doing a search for [weeds] and I spotted an image ad from Google encouraging advertisers to try out Google Image AdWords. I don’t believe I ever saw an image ad from Google, [...] *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***
Paul the Octopus Appears on This Week’s...
This week’s list of emerging Facebook apps, measured as those still growing toward a million monthly active users, is led off for once by something other than a quiz app: Who thinks of you?, a sort of pen-pal finder for Facebook. However, all of the new traffic to “Who thinks of you?”, some 712,312 new [...]
Australia govt expands proposed broadband...
By 2010-07-30T13:16:37Z PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Australia's government expanded its ambitious plan to bring broadband to much of the vast country, adding 300,000 homes and businesses to the coverage area Friday in hopes of winning votes in next month's federal election....
ApartmentGuide Adds Search Tab To Its Fac...
ApartmentGuide.com has introduced a search tab on its Facebook page. To find an apartment, visitors to ApartmentGuide's Facebook page can click on the search tab and enter the city, state or zip code. Price range and number of bedrooms is also an option to narrow the search. Users are offered apartment listings that match search criteria on the Facebook page. "A significant portion of ApartmentGuide.com users are between the ages of 18-35, aligning nicely with Facebook's demographics," said Arlene Mayfield, president, Apartment Guide. "Further, Facebook had over 150 million U.S. users in July 2010 with that number expected to grow considerably." ...
Image Ads in Google Image Search
Google Image Search implemented infinite scrolling and other features inspire...
FCC Report on National Broadb...
The US Federal Communications Commission issued their sixth periodic report t...
Holy SEO! The Vatican on Google
If you search for "vatican" on Google, the first result that shows up is not ...
