Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. If we’re going to have an Internet full of things so that we can friend our...
Troy Thibodeaux is the Editor for Newsroom Innovation at the Associated Press and has written a terrific post on resources for data journalists. Now, you probably aren’t a journalist, but you should pay attention anyway, since there are plenty of things you can do to manipulate data in interesting ways for your management and...
The Google+ team gave us some news today about a new discovery feature for YouTube, utilizing Google+ shares. One of the main problems for me while using Google+ is that there is so much information coming through my stream. I can’t see just videos that have been shared without searching for a string that...
Google Translate for Android conversation mode, which allows two people to speak in different languages and have their words translated in near real time, is now expanding beyond English and Spanish to 14 languages. The new languages are: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Turkish. Google...
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“Filipinos account for a lot of views in the Southeast Asia with tens of millions of views in a day.” This statement comes from Adam Smith, Google’s Director of Product Management, in response to the launch of YouTube’s first localized service in Southeast Asia. Is it surprising that YouTube has chosen to launch in...
The list of Microsoft’s patent buddies has just gotten a little longer today: the company has announced that they have entered into yet another patent protection deal, this time with Taiwan-based Quanta Computers. Readers may recall that Microsoft’s past partnerships range from big names like Samsung and HTC, to less prominent firms like General...
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Last year, I did a back of the envelope estimate of revenues for Spotify for 2010 at $134 million, of which $80 million came from subscriptions and the rest from advertising. It’s time for a mea culpa: I blew it. According to data obtained by industry blog Music Ally, the company brought in $99 million in total...
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