Google Antitrust Hearing: Will Google Be Found Evil?
On Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is expected to testify before the Senate Committee’s antitrust panel and argue that Google does not give preference...
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Google Propeller: Social News Magazine App Targets Flipboard
Google’s latest project, which company insiders say is dubbed “Propeller,” is a social magazine news app that will target the highly successful Flipboard iPad app....
Facebook Reveals Social Ads Marketing Plan
In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Facebook Ads Product Director Gokul Rajaram revealed how Facebook is planning to increase advertising revenue in the near future....
Yahoo! Search Launches New Design and Features
After launching an improved image search last month, Yahoo recently announced a makeover of the search results page. The simple and minimalistic design, which was...
Microsoft Bing Adaptive Search: Is Bing Adapting to the Competitive Landscape?
Microsoft Bing, which according to a recent ComScore report is slowly gaining market share from its competitor Google, has announced its newest feature – Adaptive...
Twitter Analytics: Analyze 100 Million Active Users
With over 100 million active users worldwide, there is little doubt that Twitter is capable of driving large quantities of traffic to all types of...
Facebook Subscribe: Is Facebook Copying the Competition?
Yesterday afternoon, Facebook announced the addition of Facebook Subscribe. This new feature will give users the ability to control what they see in their News...
AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft Form Advertising Partnership
Although Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL compete with each other for advertising dollars, the three technology companies have agreed to start selling some of each other’s...
Does a Groupon Deal Impact Yelp Ratings?
Recently, a study was conducted to determine if a Groupon offer correlates with lower Yelp ratings. The study, which was conducted by three computer scientists...
Google Takes Off: Will They Crash or Will Kayak Sink
Late Tuesday morning, Google announced the addition of their newest search feature, Google Flight Search. Although the search giant began incorporating flight schedules into search...
Social Business Index: Real Time Social Data for Companies
Earlier today the Dachis Group launched the Social Business Index, which measures and ranks companies’ social media presence. The Dachis Group, one of the world’s...
Anti-Gay Millionaire Censored by Google?
Brian Souter, the anti-gay co-founder of Stagecoach Group, is claiming that his website www.BrianSouter.com is being singled out and censored by Google due to his...
Facebook Dominates All Other Websites in Third Quarter
Nielsen recently released its third quarter “State of the Media” report, which uncovers how Internet users interact with the Web and allocate their online time....
Amazon Digital Content: a Library at Your Fingertips
WSJ is reporting that Amazon, who makes the popular Kindle reading device, is in early negotiations with book publishers regarding the offering of a digital...
Social Media Engagement: Facebook Wins
A recent study, conducted by Constant Contact and Chadwick Martin Bailey, indicates that people are more likely to interact with brands via Facebook than any...
FBI Computer Crimes Unit Investigating Hacked NBC Twitter Account
Early Friday Evening, just two days before the tenth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, the official NBC Twitter account was hacked and used...
Facebook Debuts Smart Lists: Is Google+ in Trouble?
When Google+ launched in late June, it provided users with segmentation options that empowered them to selectively share information with friends and acquaintances. The segmentation...
Microsoft’s Cloud Based Office 365 Experiences Second Major Outage in Less Than a Month
For the second time in less than a month, Microsoft cloud-based services suffered a major technical glitch and crashed worldwide. The outage left millions of...
Twitter Set to Close $400 Million in Series G Funding on $8 Billion Valuation
After recently indicating that Twitter is not planning for an IPO in the near future, CEO Dick Costolo is set to close the second of...
Google Buys Zagat: a Marriage between Old and New Media
Earlier today, Google announced the acquisition of the prestigious restaurant-rating organization Zagat for an undisclosed price. Zagat, which rates restaurants on a 1-30 scale, has...
Facebook: The $80 Billion Company with Earnings of Less Than $1 per User
During the first six months of 2011, Facebook, which has over 750 million active users, has reportedly earned $500 million on $1.6 billion of revenue....
Google Docs Outage: Does .01% Downtime Equate to Reliability?
Ironically, less than 24 hours after a blog post that encouraged businesses to trust Google with their data, the cloud based Google Docs experienced approximately...
Groupon in the Crosshairs: Google Offers Launches in Five New Cities
Less than a year ago, Google reportedly offered to buy Groupon for around $6 Billion. After Groupon declined the serious multi-billion dollar offer, Google decided...
‘Twitter Terrorism’ Charges Discourage the Usage of Social Media in Mexico
On August 25th, 2011, Gilberto Martinez, a 48 year old former math teacher in the eastern coastal state of Veracruz, Mexico, tweeted out the message...
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Gets Longer Than Expected Labor Day Weekend
Carol Bartz, who still had over one year left on her contract with Yahoo, was fired via a telephone call on Tuesday. She was hired...
No Debate About It
Less than seven years ago, the 2004 presidential campaigns were gearing up for heated rhetoric battles and mud-slinging. Unfortunately for the candidates, they would never...
Social Search Engine Aardvark Hunted Down
Aardvark, which was founded in 2007, provides individuals with a platform to ask questions and receive specific and relevant answers. For example, an Aardvark user...
Google Places “Report a Problem” Subject to Manipulation
The “report a problem” button that is found on a Google Places profile allows Google users to “close” businesses with the click of a button....