Be Like Mark: Facebook IPO Takeaways

Just in case you've been living under a rock, Facebook announced its epic $100 billion IPO this week. From old media to new media to social media, and within every digital business in between, everyone's talking about it

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Be Like Mark: Facebook IPO Takeaways

Google Won’t Pause New Privacy Policy – Should They Have To?

Google refuses to bend to EU regulators, who have asked the company to hold off on rolling out their new privacy policy. In the U.S., Google responded to a letter and attended a closed-door privacy briefing with members of Congress.

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Google Won’t Pause New Privacy Policy – Should They Have To?

How Affiliate Sites Can Best Exploit SEO

Affiliate marketing is now an industry worth billions, although it’s fiercely competitive. Close analysis of relevant keywords can help you discover lucrative niches that may be overlooked in the rush for the big-ticket high traffic keywords.

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Kick-Start Your PPC Campaign in 6 Easy Steps

Now is the perfect time to make changes, giving you a good few months of “normal” search traffic to analyze before major events like Christmas begin to make their presence known. Here are some tips to make your PPC campaign stand out from the crowd.

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Kick-Start Your PPC Campaign in 6 Easy Steps

Trover: Local Search and Discovery Through Images

Trover is a new mobile local discovery app built around geotagged images. Trover’s CEO discusses possible futures for crowdsourced location-based search directories and the potential these new platforms to deliver more relevant, personalized ads.

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Trover: Local Search and Discovery Through Images

Is Video Scribing The Next Big Thing?

From the biggest brands to the smallest businesses on the Web, an increasing number of marketers are recognizing the power of online video to create awareness and sell their products and services. It has become such a popular Internet marketing tool, in fact, that many companies are looking for ways to make their videos stand out above the… [[ This is a content summary only.

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Pot (Microsoft) Calls Kettle (Google) Black on Privacy

Did you know Microsoft truly puts people first? Instead of having horrible, evil products like Gmail, Google’s search engine, Google Docs, or Google Chrome, Microsoft saves us with Hotmail, Bing, Microsoft Office 365, and Internet Explorer 9.

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Pot (Microsoft) Calls Kettle (Google) Black on Privacy

Why the Twitter ‘Who Gives a Tweet’ Researchers are Wrong

A recent study by Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and Georgia Tech researchers found that 25 percent of tweets aren’t even worth reading, according to participants. They believe better filters will help

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Why the Twitter ‘Who Gives a Tweet’ Researchers are Wrong

Google Fined in France Because Google Maps is Free

A Paris court has ordered Google France and parent company Google Inc. to pay €500,000 ($660,000) in damages, after a two year court battle with French mapping company Bottin Cartographes over their unfair competition complaint.

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Google Fined in France Because Google Maps is Free