94% of American wineries surveyed by ABLE Social Media Marketing are on Facebook and 73% are on Twitter. The study, done in December 2011, shows that American wineries are active in social media and that it’s producing results. 47% of US wineries said that Facebook helps them generate sales (72% sell wine on their...
Korea electronics giant Samsung has announced that the Samsung Galaxy S III, its much-anticipated new smartphone, has launched in 28 markets across Europe and the Middle East today, with plans to increase that number to 145 worldwide by July, according to Reuters. Today’s wide scale launch is the firm’s largest single device push ever, it...
We live in an era in which business deals are changing. The Internet is connecting people and companies in new and faster ways and, with tech firms like Facebook and Apple boasting financial clout and massive customer bases, deals can be agreed in weeks, if not days, as Mark Zuckerberg’s 3 day pursuit of...
Faster than you can say “Can I borrow your copy of ‘How To Win Friends And Influence People,’” it’s tech conference season again. There hasn’t been a week during the month of May where I haven’t attended a tech conference or traveled to something tech conference-related. And judging by Techmeme’s events calendar the state...
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Earlier this month, Y Combinator held its Work At A Startup Event, where many of its alumni took the stage — not to pitch investors (as is the case at the incubator’s enormous demo day), but instead engineers who might be lured to work at the startups in question. After the presentations, I grabbed...
As you know, Elon Musk’s SpaceX program officially hit a milestone by docking its Dragon craft with the International Space Station. This hasn’t been an overnight success story, as Musk has been working on SpaceX since 2002. Here are a few clips from a Standord talk Musk did in October 2003. It’s absolutely fascinating....
Created by artists Felix Heyes and Ben West, Google – “a 1240 page behemoth of JPGs, GIFs and PNGs in alphabetical order,” as described by Creative Applications, is the kind of book that every geek should have on his or her coffee table. It’s a compilation of every single Google Image result for every word in the...
It turns out that a huge proportion of those 2 million Diablo III presales were direct-to-consumer downloads that bypassed retailers. As digital downloads take over the game market, where does that leave storefront game retailers like GameStop? A big chunk of those direct downloads came from Blizzard’s Annual Pass program, designed to shore up...
Remember that time, like two years ago, when everyone was all about daily deals sites? They were awesome and sent you 14 emails a day about all of the amazing things you could get for cheap. Only problem is, 95% of the crap that was mentioned in the emails didn’t interest you at all....
Editor’s note: This post is written by guest author Darius “Bubs” Monsef, who is founder CEO of the new design marketplace CreativeMarket. He is also the founder of the popular creative community COLOURlovers and is a mentor with 500Startups PIEPDX. Bubs blogs at HelloBubs. I’d started raising 3 rounds. One fell apart and the others raised...