May 16, 2012
General Motors Co. plans to stop advertising with Facebook Inc. after deciding that paid ads on the site have little impact on consumers' car purchases, according to a GM official.
May 13, 2012
If you like to make things and are the least bit tech savvy, you’re likely going to fall in love with the new lifestyle brand Brit. The brand is the brainchild of Brit Morin, who was formerly employed by both Apple and Google.
She spoke with WebProNews and explained that, while she has always had a love for tech, she also loved creating items in the offline world. As a result, she decided to build a domestic living...
May 12, 2012
Social media presents great risks as it does rewards for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Among social media’s shortcomings: it doesn’t convert prospects to customers with the same ease that search does. Fortunately, as Facebook continues to open up more opportunities for local targeting, social media is becoming more feasible.
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May 4, 2012
LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million.
It will be 45% cash and 55% stock.
SlideShare allows users to upload documents to the web and have them embedded all over the place.
A new website called Miss Travel is gaining quite a bit of attention, but not necessarily in a good way. Miss Travel launched last month as a dating site geared toward travelers. The way that the site combines these two elements, however, is the reason it is causing controversy.
Miss Travel matches “attractive” and “generous” people that share a love for travel but lack either the funding or the companion to do so. But at this point, the...
May 1, 2012
The tech industry has hit Wall Street hard in the past couple of years with several IPOs. The trend is continuing as Facebook, the world’s largest social network, is expected to complete its initial public offering very soon.
Although many think that these IPOs legitimize areas such as social networking and gaming, there are some questions in terms of the impact on the market. According to Vitaliy Katsenelson...
April 24, 2012
Facebook gaming was recently given a big transformation after Gaikai launched the beta of its Facebook app. As David Perry, Gaikai’s CEO, explained to WebProNews, the cloud gaming service is bringing console quality games to the social giant.
It’s clear that gaming platforms such as Zynga have had tremendous...
April 17, 2012
Tweeting exit poll results from the upcoming French presidential election will be against the law, it has emerged. In France, there are strict rules that prohibit the broadcasting of polls or exit surveys until the voting period has closed
April 13, 2012
Search engine optimization and social media optimization are often thought of in the online marketing world, but do they effectively define what online optimization efforts for businesses should be?
According to Lee Odden, the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing and author of new book Optimize, real optimization incorporates both SEO and SMO,...
April 10, 2012
Facebook has purchased Instagram for $1 billion, reeling in an increasingly popular photo-sharing app as well one of the bigger social networks. Even though Instagram just released its Android version on April 3, it had 27 million users in March.