Googles Search Market Share Drops as Bing Passes 17

Search Engine Watch - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

comScore's April 2013 search engine rankings . Google dropped 0.6 percent in April, dropping from March's 67.1 percent to 66.5 percent. However, this is exactly the same search percentage as ...

Google extends lead in display ads Facebook slips

Market Watch - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

-0.69% widened its lead in U.S. online display ads, capturing 24.1% of the market's $3 billion revenue in the first quarter, IDC reported Tuesday. That's a gain of 3 percentage points from the year-earlier period. Yahoo ...

What Top 5 Social Brands On Twitter Are Doing Right

ViralBlog - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Socialbakers published its ';Socially Devoted Brand Survey,'; containing information about the most social brands on Twitter. Who are these brands and what are they doing right? Let’s take a ...

Veteran VC predicts an education revolution

Business Journal - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Avery More of Menlo Ventures sees massive disruption coming to all levels of education, thanks to technology. A very More made a mark more than 20 years ago running 1980s computer retail pioneers CompuCom and Computer City, which he sold to CompUSA in 1998. But he says he has always been more of a tech entrepreneur than a retail guy and that is where he focuses these days. He has concentrated ...

Eminems music publisher sues Facebook over use of song

The Detroit News - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Eminem's music publisher is suing Facebook and an advertiser for using a song from the "Marshall Mathers LP" without permission in a recent advertisement for the new Facebook feature called "Airplane." In the lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, Ferndale-based Eight Mile Style LLC alleges copyright infringement for using the song "Under the ...

Mindgrub opens marketing offices in D.C. Boston and Philly

Business Journal - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Mindgrub CEO Todd Marks said the new marketing offices are needed to handle a growing client network that Mindgrub is developing. Mobile and Web developer Mindgrub Technologies LLC is opening marketing offices in Washington, Philadelphia and Boston. The new offices are needed to handle a growing client network that Mindgrub is developing along the East Coast, CEO Todd Marks said in a ...

Florida parents turn to Internet to help daughter charged with sex with girl minor

Denver Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

ORLANDO - Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then 14-year-old schoolmate, was another girl.By late Monday afternoon, almost 100,000 people had signed ...

Boston Scientific competitor calls the cops to seize illegal stents in Germany

Business Journal - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A stent is a tiny mesh tube implanted during an angioplasty procedure improve blood flow. A Hong Kong-based medical device manufacturer thats been accusing Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) of patent infringement since at least 2009 upped the ante last week, seizing more than 190 heart stents from a BSX site in Germany with the help of police. OrbusNeich Medical Inc., which has U.S. offices in ...

How a Twitter debate led to one theatres money-back guarantee

The Globe and Mail - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

in Vancouver, he wants to know - and he'll refund the price of your ticket."If we're a young, innovative, energetic theatre company that is trying to do the best work that we can, why wouldn't we back our work with something like a money-back guarantee?", says McMullen. "Are we going to be so afraid of people disliking our work that we will, in fact, lose money on ...

Legislature wont refill angel-credit pot but OKs $12M for 2014

Business Journal - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A plan to add capacity to the state's angel-investor tax credit program died in the waning hours of the Minnesota legislative session. Minnesotas pool of angel-investor tax credits will remain dry through the end of the year. The state ran out of credits for the program which provides tax credits to investors who put money into startup companies this month, but a Senate proposal was poised ...

First South Florida Technology Summit to be held Wednesday

Business Journal - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The first South Florida Technology Summit will offer attendees an opportunity to learn about the hottest gadgets and to prepare for future tech advancements with workshops, tutorials, presentations, keynotes and exhibits. The annual technology summit, which is presented by TigerDirect.com in collaboration with The LAB Miami and Refresh Miami, will take place from 1 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday at the ...

Compare Metrics completes $4.2M Series A funding

Austin Business Journal - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Software maker Compare Metrics Inc. has completed a $4.2 million Series A round of funding. The Austin-based company disclosed that investors included Austin Ventures LP and several angel investors, according to a Tuesday news release. Compare Metrics, founded in 2010 as Compare Networks LLC, develops search tools to e-commerce websites with a white-label product discovery platform. Company ...

Social Media Initiatives Should Follow Customers Lead

Hispanic Business Magazine - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

social media platforms they use. "Survey your customers," says Sue Kirchner. "If they're not big on Facebook or Twitter, there's no need for you to spend a lot of time there. If your customers all are on , ask how often they use it. Only 10-20 percent of LinkedIn users are active," says Kirchner, a ...

Shady Dealings Eminem Publisher Sues Facebook

Forbes - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Mark Zuckerberg 's musical tastes and Eminem himself accused of plagiarism. At issue is the 'Airplane' ad created by the Wieden + Kennedy agency, and used to launch Facebook's new mobile software, Facebook Home, last month. According to Eight Mile Style, the song sounds an awful lot like the 2001 song 'Under the Influence', by Eminemand members of D12 - and the ...

Designing a Content Strategy to Destroy Your SEO Nemesis

Search Engine Watch - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Do you do SEO for a brand involved in a straight fight with another company? It's pretty common for brands to become fixated on one particular competitor; I've seen entire marketing strategies geared towards beating another brand, rather than hitting a specific revenue target. While some would argue it's unhealthy to define any market as a two-horse race (especially in ...

A really cheap way to mess up your search engine ranking

Business Journal - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Bob Gilmour is The SEO Answer Man and the SEO Manager for Web Solutions of America. His background is engineering, with 15 years of experience in Internet marketing and SEO. When he is not solving terrible website problems for business owners, he loves car racing and skydiving. In this new series, Bob Gilmour the SEO Answer Man answers your questions about Internet marketing and SEO. Question: ...

Syrian hacktivists hijack Telegraphs Facebook Twitter accounts

The Register - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

were hijacked by pro-Assad hacktivists from the Syrian Electronic Army briefly on Monday evening. The UK broadsheet's Facebook account was also purloined by group in the latest in a growing line of similar attacks against high-profile media outlets including ...

Smart Village promotes open access network

IT Web - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Smart Village, a MultiChoice-owned company specialising in large-scale deployments of fibre-to-the-home multi-service networks, will soon be promoting an open access network to ISPs in 56 residential estates throughout SA. "We have a strong national footprint in last-mile infrastructure, with over 11000 homes and businesses already connected and enjoying our fully integrated multimedia, ...

Israels Facebook community numbers 4m real users

Globes - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Israel's Facebook community numbers four million real users, who enter the social networking site at least once a month, and are not fake profiles. 60% of the Israeli users, 2.4 million people, enter Facebook daily, according to the company's official figures. 52% of Israeli Facebook users are men and 48% are women. People aged 18-24 are the biggest segment by age, accounting for 30% ...

Merger Monday -- Yahoo GrubHub Websense But What About Twitter and Microsoft

Forbes - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

and Tumblr, Seamless North America and GrubHub, and Vista Equity Partners announced acquisition of Websense. Stand alone deals are always interesting given the potential response - some companies do nothing, others quickly put other companies into play while others up the ante for an existing transaction. Historically, however, big acquisitions tend to realize the big synergies -- better known ...

Google+ in the SERPs Increasing Authorship Adoption High Data

Search Engine Watch - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

author information in the SERPs . Since doing so, much has been written about the importance of ensuring search marketers have taken steps to set up authorship in Google+. Intuitively, it makes sense that greater attention is drawn to search results with pictures on them ...

Share Dialog Comes To Facebook For iOS SDK

Web Pro News - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

pushing Open Graph in a big way on mobile going forward. Part of those plans involved the Share Dialog – a tool that allows users to share on Facebook without having to login. It was only available as a limited beta at the time, but now all iOS developers can take advantage of ...