The local deals and offers space is still emerging and we’re seeing start-ups like Groupon, Living Social and Foursquare rise up only to be challenged by bigger web players like Google and Facebook. But one of the most potent competitors is showing that you don’t have to be a hot start-up to play in...
Although you won’t find any Apple users who will admit it, Macs do occasionally crash and fail, sometimes in spectacular ways. In my experience, while they have far fewer visible errors, the ones that users end up seeing are more serious than the scattered Windows annoyances and driver issues. But by and large, recovery...
Posted: July 20, 2011 at 6:38 am Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) said its revenue fell last quarter to a large extent because of a drop in its display advertising. The trend will spread to other websites with smaller audience size than those of Yahoo!, AOL (NYSE: AOL) and MSN. The three portals are among the...
Advertisers and brands that run ad campaigns on Facebook will know that sponsored stories provide an incredible return on investment, as a viral ad platform that drives new fans to Pages and spawns incredible word of mouth marketing. One of the reasons that sponsored stories work so well is that friends of fans don’t...
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In the wake of all of the music services coming out these days, there are some that have been around for ages. One of the best of these, Slacker Radio, has really started to shine in the wake of the recent Spotify release in the US. First thing’s first, let’s take an overview of...
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If there’s one thing that keeps me coming back to Facebook, it’s the photos. Admittedly, I’ve largely abandoned Facebook as my social network of choice, but it’s still the primary way I can see what all my old high school buddies are up to. But photos often get lost in the shuffle of Facebook...
Mobile video calling app Tango is taking off, recently passing 17 million registered users in half the time it took Skype. It got that far with about $14 million in venture capital. Today, Tango announced that it just raised another $42 million in a series B financing led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the same...
“Cell phones cause cancer.” “No they don’t!” “Yes they do.” “No they don’t!“ Back and forth it goes, like the world’s slowest game of tennis. One study spends 6 months proving that cell phones turn you into a giant walking tumor, and another pops up showing that cell phones cause nothing but an increased...