October 2010 News

Humanizing Your Brand is Inexpensive and Can Pay Off
Consumers like brands that they can identify with, and it's hard to identify with a business itself unless you can get to know a little bit about it. Social media and online vid...
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Facebook Slaps $2,500 Fee On Stock Sales
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may be growing tired of having outsiders buy up small pieces of his company.  Today, there's word that Facebook has imposed a rather steep fee...
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Gates Foundation Puts $20 Million Into Education Technology
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said today it is putting $20 million into funding an online education and technology initiative to increase college graduation rates in t...
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A Fake Eric Schmidt And A Fake Mark Zuckerberg
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch created a fake Facebook account for Google CEO Eric Schmidt, showi...
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Brand Fans On Facebook More Likely To Make A Purchase
  Facebook users who like a brand's page on the site are thirty-three percent more likely to buy a product, and 92 percent more likely t...
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BigDeal: Scam or Great Money-Saver?
With the holidays coming up, people are going to be looking for discounts, and they're going to be doing so online. One site, which many are likely to come across is...
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Emerging Markets May Have Fullest “Digital Life”
A research project that entailed interviews with 50,000 people living in 46 countries has concluded, and some interesting facts about social networking have surfaced as a result...
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Jefferies Raises Google Price Target
There are three days to go until Google announces its third quarter financial results, and this morning, the search giant benefited from another show of support.  Jefferies...
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The First Windows Phone 7 Smartphones
Microsoft unveiled 9 new Windows Phone 7 smartphones that will be available for the holidays in various parts of the world. Microsoft...
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eBay Launches Windows Phone 7 App
eBay has introduced a mobile app for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices. eBay's app for Windows Phone 7 allows users to search, bid, buy and check their buying a...
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Google Tests Self-Driving Cars
Thanks - or perhaps just due to - Google, the era of the autonomous car may be approaching.  This weekend, the company announced that it's been developing self-driving vehi...
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YouTube Honors John Lennon For 70th Birthday
 Yoko Ono and EMI Music have partnered with YouTube for worldwide tributes honoring John Lennon to mark his 70th birthday (October 9)....
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Why Not Everyone is a Fan of the New Facebook Groups
Some people really like Facebook's new Groups feature. Influential tech blogger Robert Scoble could hardly...
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Google Testing a Feature with Major Implications for Clickthroughs
Google is apparently testing a feature in its search results pages that allows users to see full-page previews of sites before they click through to them. ...
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Yahoo: Our Version of Instant Too Early For its Time
As we reported earlier, Yahoo has some new search features like slideshows abo...
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