The following comments were delivered today by Dr. Benjamin Ola. Akande, dean of Webster University's School of Business & Technology, to introduce Twitter creator, co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey as the University's "Success to Significance 2009 Person of the Year." The event was ...Sep. 19, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 941
Looks like there’s a few bubbles still left in the old champagne bottle.
Twitter, which has no income to speak of, has reportedly raised another $50 million in funding and been valued at $1 billion.
That’s four times the $250 million valuation it reportedly got in February when...
Microsoft’s share of U.S. searches jumped 22.1% in August to 10.7% of the market to Google’s 64.6%, up 2.6%, and Yahoo’s 16%, according to Nielsen. Yahoo was down 4.2%. Microsoft was up from 9% in July. That’s a sequential leap of 22.1% for Microsoft’s newfangled Bing search machine, b...
Keeping your brand alive and well on the Web isn't as easy as it looks. There are few things as important as your reputation, and in the Web 2.0 economy, your reputation is increasingly tied to your web presence. So keeping the website up, available, and responding quickly is critical ...
Well-known as CEO of Adobe Systems, Chizen transformed the company into one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies in terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. During his tenure, Chizen tripled revenue and transformed a company known mainly for its...
What every developer wants is access and the ability to shape any data across the Internet through one simple language, with out need to learn different APIs. Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) provides just that and its effectiveness will be demonstrated live at SYS-CON's 4th International C...
Microsoft Thursday began a belated and limited beta of its newfangled browser-based Office Web Apps, the widgetry that’s supposed to joust in the cloud with Google Apps and the other free or low-cost online Office wannabes.
It’s their first public outing.
The invitation-only te...
The Internet’s terrible twosome, Skype and Kazaa inventors Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, have thrown a monkey wrench into eBay’s plans to sell off 65% of Skype to an investor group led by Silver Lake and involving Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen for around $2 billion.
Zenstr...
The Canadian Marketing Association, Calgary Chapter (CMA Calgary) will host a luncheon event "The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media Marketing" featuring prominent author, speaker, and marketing consultant Darren Barefoot on Wednesday September 30, 2009 at the Fairmont Palliser Hotel.
Roger Strukhoff launched today the NOW Magazine on Ulitzer. NOW Magazine launched in 2006 with a vision of Thought Leadership in technology innovation. It recently expanded its focus to cover the nexus among business, government, and innovation. Silicon Valley journalist/publisher Roge...
MDC Partners announced today its investment in Attention Partners LLC, a social media and marketing communications agency based in New York. Attention is differentiated by its data-driven approach to earning media. Its services encompass measurement, consulting, engagement, and communi...
Adobe said Tuesday during its earnings call that it’s buying publicly held Utah-based Omniture for ~$1.8 billion cash.
It’s not your most instantly intuitive acquisition ever and it’s costing a pretty penny at that. Adobe didn’t explain to its own people where the web researcher fi...
"We're thrilled with the initial response to Jive Market Engagement from Jive customers, prospective customers and partners," said JIve Software's Ben Kiker as Jive Market Engagement was announced - a new solution that combines the power of social media monitoring with Social Business...
With 3PAR, TrafficBroker has gone from a complex and poorly performing environment to a highly agile and efficient virtual datacenter running on a single, consolidated 3PAR InServ® Storage Server. TrafficBroker's unique performance-based payment terms for their customers give the marke...
John Treadway started the syndication of his authoritative Cloud Computing blog "The Bzz on Cloud Computing" on Ulitzer (see FAQ here). John Treadway is a senior enterprise technology marketing and business development executive with significant experience across horizontal IT and fina...
What do the following industry executives have in common: the CTOs of Citrix, EMC and Sybase, the Founders of ParaScale and CloudSwitch, the CEOs of Zetta and Kaavo, the Chief Security Architect at Sun, the President of Hubspan and the Chairman of NComputing?
The answer is that, alo...
SOA Industry Analysis and Advisory Firm ZapThink launched a topic site on Ulitzer.
ZapThink is an IT advisory and analysis firm that provides trusted advice and critical insight into the architectural and organizational changes brought about by the movement to XML, Web Services, and...
Pixamba CEO David Mail launched today Stock Photography topic on Ulitzer. David Mail is a CEO of Pixamba Ltd., a royalty free stock photography agency and media services company. Pixamba offers microstock and midstock images at affordable prices starting from $0.75/image. Pixamba is al...
RealWire News Distribution started its news syndication on Ulitzer.
RealWire is a global news release distribution service specialising in the online media. The RealWire approach focuses on delivering relevant content to the receivers of our client's news releases. As we know that i...
The Chinese Academy of Science has sold 29% of its 65% position in Lenovo’s parent company, Legend Holdings, to China Oceanwide Holdings Group, a company with holdings in real estate, finance and energy, for $404 million. Legend announced Tuesday that it wants to invest $1.5 billion in...
The Spa and Salon Journal provides news, views and trends in the spa and salon industry. For those building a world-class Spa and Salon or those seeking the best in services, this site provides the latest in programs, fashion, trends and more.
According to the PRSA, the social media revolution has created a highly-competitive environment in which the PR, interactive marketing, and advertising communities must constantly vie for consumers' attention through these rapidly-changing platforms. As a result, social media must now ...
Remember back in 2005 when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was so ticked with the brain drain Microsoft was losing to Google that when Microsoft search VP Kai-fu Lee, the guy who started Microsoft Research China, walked into Ballmer's office and said he was going to Google too Ballmer thre...
Dr Kai-Fu Lee, who resigned from Google as Vice President and President of Google Greater China on 4 September, 2009, released a statement today that he was launching "a business creation platform focused on establishing the next wave of Chinese high-technology companies." As founder, ...
Personal Branding Journal launched today on Ulitzer. The latest Ulitzer topic is created by Wiliam Arruda and edited by Dr. Hubert Rampersad. The latest Ulitzer topic also offers news, articles and blog entries by: Susan Guarneri, Chris Perry, John Ryan, Ambal Balakrishnan, Newt Barret...
The Magnetic Sales Professional doesn't see their role as job. They see it as a calling.
Stewart McKie launched today the Vizitag Mobile Tagging and Content Delivery topic on Ulitzer. McKie has 25 years of IT industry experience. His education includes a MSc in Organization Consulting and a MA in Screenwriting. He was the Technology Editor of Business Finance magazine duri...
Now visited by over two-thirds (67 percent) of the global online population, "Member Communities," which includes both social networks and blogs, has become the fourth most popular category online - ahead of personal email. It is growing twice as fast as any of the other four largest s...
A new survey of 300 European enterprise IT decision makers shows IT innovators are beating the recession. Results of the 2009 European IT Survey1, sponsored by BMC Software, reveal that one in four companies – the Thrivers - are beating the recession by focusing on improving their IT o...
Got a digital camera? Now you can earn money selling your pictures on the Internet! If you have a good eye and if you are a creative person, you can generate very nice monthly income by selling your pictures on stock photography web sites. In a month or two you will start collecting mo...
"We've turned our full attention to helping ensure this kind of event doesn't happen again," wrote Ben Treynor, self-described 'VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar' at Google, in an official blogged explanation last night of the 100-minute Gmail outage yesterday, which Treynor con...
Social media has given us many outlets to network with others, but it's become such a convenience to network online, that many are neglecting the face-to-face networking that is so vital in career management or in operating a business. Liz Lynch has written a great book on Networking c...
Facebook today announced plans to further improve people's control over their information and enable them to make more informed choices about their privacy. These improvements will include new notifications, additions to Facebook's Privacy Policy, and technical changes designed to give...
Linked Media Group to develop a customized version of their Social Media Platform, which will be marketed and sold under the Linked Media Group brand name. Enabling Linked Media Group to generate two new revenue streams via SaaS ("Software as a Service") Subscription and as a Services ...
The results of Bringing Social Security to the Online Community poll were released today, highlighting the vulnerabilities and concerns of social community members around cyber security and the precautions that they are taking or need to take to protect themselves. The online survey co...
Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) today announced the launch of Toshiba eXCHANGE, a social business network that will connect thousands of Toshiba sales, service, administrative and corporate professionals nationwide, allowing them to easily share information, build profes...
The now bald-as-Bruce-Willis ex-Netscape wunderkind-recently-turned-VC Marc Andreessen, roundly trounced by Microsoft and its Internet Explorer widgetry 15 years ago, is underwriting an early-stage browser start-up called RockMelt about which little to nothing is known other than its d...
Ulitzer is a brand new social media tool for creating, delivering, and consuming content on the Web. Anyone can create topics, magazines, and subject-based portals on Ulitzer, pre-populate them with over one million articles available, and launch a new Ulitzer topic in minutes.
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More proof that blogging is smart business. Just make sure that whoever is blogging is a good writer and is committed to being consistent.
Otherwise, it will be a waste of time. You can either have your developers include a blog in your web experience or use free tools like Wordpr...
