Most brands are doing their best to engage and serve their audience via social media. Those of us who are in charge of social for a brand pour over statistics and devour past learnings, but the science of social is still fairly new, so most of us are just guessing what will resonate. From...
Accelerators, Accelerator, Accelerators! There’s a rash of them appearing everywhere, and the latest is the Rockstart Accelerator, a new startup program aimed at Europe’s most promising startups that want to hit a global scale (but then don’t they all?). However, this one has some credible partners in the shape of Google, Microsoft BizSpark, Mozilla...
As part of the 20th anniversary of its technology certifications, Microsoft has announced that during that time 7 million people have been certified via Microsoft’s technology training programs. Microsoft introduced its certification program in 1992 to help validate skills associated with its products and services, providing a way for individuals to be recognised by their employers and...
Illustration: Ellis Hamburger Yahoo has 1,100 patents in social, search, and display advertising. Facebook, which is about to file for an IPO, could be violating a whole bunch of them, Eric Jackson writes for The Street. An undervalued part of the company, Yahoo’s patents have forced deals from Google and Microsoft in the past —...
Apple won a small victory in Germany Tuesday as the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court upheld its decision against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. The 10-inch slate is still barred from sale in the country, and the appeals court also determined that the Galaxy Tab 8.9 falls within the scope of that injunction. In the meantime, the...
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has announced that its online video-on-demand (VoD) 4oD service reached 427m ‘long-form’ video views in 2011 across all platforms, representing a 16% increase on 2010. Launched in November 2006, 4oD offers a range of programmes that have been recently broadcast on Channel 4, E4, More4, and from its archives that...
RIM See Also Look At All The Junk RIM Plans To Launch This Year FOXCONN SOURCE: 4-Inch iPhone 5 Launching This Summer Here’s Some Advice For RIM’s New CEO Thorsten Heins This is a real thing. Remember when RIM said its strategy is to focus on marketing its decaying line of BlackBerry devices for...
Last week, Google announced its plans to consolidate its many privacy policies, reducing them to one document, effective March 1. Many headlines were quick to go after the search giant, but as The Next Web’s Brad McCarty pointed out, there’s really nothing to worry about. All the policy means for the average end user...
After recently announcing the milestone of 3 million active users, geo-coupon system a Shopkick is revealing that its mobile app helped drive more than $110 million in-store revenue for partner retailers and brands in 2011 in its first full year operating the app. Shopkick, which is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, SV Angel and...
Sumo Logic emerged from the shadows Tuesday with $15 million in Series B funding from Sutter Hill Ventures, Greylock Partners and Shlomo Kramer bringing its total to $20.5 million since its founding in April, 2010. Greylock and Kramer also participated in the Series A round. The company, founded by Arcsight veterans Kumar Saurabh and...