Introduction: Social media’s rapid rise in recent years gave marketers exciting new tools for communicating with customers and prospects. Suddenly, established marketing tactics such as email were seen as old fashioned, one-way channels that consumers were increasingly likely to ignore. Social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter offered an alternative: two-way communication channels where
Takeaway: You can’t work out of your home effectively without the right setup. Justin James shares what he’s discovered about equipping the IT home office. I have been working out of my home office for more than three years now, with job functions that cover a wide variety of IT roles, such as software developer,
In LinkedIn’s first earnings call as a public company, CEO Jeff Weiner revealed that LinkedIn is adding two new members every second, which is up from one member per second in November 2010. In Q2 alone, LinkedIn added 14 million members, after passing the 100 million mark earlier this year. Weiner also said that the
Google has been ramping up its transportation search features for desktop and mobile, but now it is shifting into full on travel mode with its Hotel Finder experiment. The Next Web reports that the utility is “designed to help users find the perfect hotel.” Easier said than done, of course, but maybe something that Google
Online greetings card retailer Moonpig.com has been sold to online digital photo service PhotoBox for £120 million in a merger that will create one of Europe’s largest personal publishers, the companies have announced. Nick Jenkins, the founder and chairman of Moonpig, is set for a multi-million pound windfall after agreeing to sell the business, including
According to a study released Friday by web-tracking firm comScore, the web search giant’s new social networking tool, Google Plus, has amassed 20 million users in just three weeks since its launch on June 28. While that figure is still far from the 750 million registered users of Facebook, it is still enough to make
An online entrepreneur says that poor spelling is costing the UK millions of pounds in lost revenue for internet businesses. Charles Duncombe says an analysis of website figures shows a single spelling mistake can cut online sales in half. Mr Duncombe says when recruiting staff he has been “shocked at the poor quality of written
– Citrix announced on Tuesday that they were buying startup Cloud.com, adding to their portfolio a market that could bring $8 billion in sales by 2013. The deal also brings more competition to Amazon’s Web Services, which targets a different market. Web Services allows companies to run programs on Amazon servers instead of their own.
After giving birth earlier on Sunday , Victoria and David Beckham have named their daughter Harper Seven. This girl joins the three boys of Romeo, Cruz and Brooklyn. The former Spice Girls singer and husband David Beckham welcomed the bundle of joy at a Los Angeles hospital on Sunday morning (July 10). According to a
An extra-time goal gave Tanzania’s Young Africans victory over their great rivals Simba in the final of the Cecafa Club Cup on Sunday. Young Africans, known as Yanga, claimed their first title in the East and Central African event since 1999. Ghana’s Kenneth Asamoah rose unchallenged to head home a Rashid Gumbo cross in the
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Skype’s Tony Bates announce a deal to include Skype’s video conferencing into Facebook’s social network. PALO ALTO, Calif. — For months, Facebook was uncharacteristically quiet about its membership growth. Whispers among those who closely follow the social-networking giant reached full-throated debate a few weeks ago, with word that Facebook’s numbers