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INFOGRAPHIC: Why Content Marketing Matters
Our friends at BraftoN have put together a great infographic on the importance of content in the world of SEO. It’s an established fact that search engines give preferential ranking to sites with the freshest and most pertinent content, but it’s eye-opening to really dig into how important content really …
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There Will Be Blood – Competitors Can Now Destroy Your Google Listing
Google is feeding local business owners to the wolves with their latest Places update. Lior Ron, Google Places Product Manger, announced yesterday evening that Google will be “helping” business owners keep their business listings updated by now allowing anyone, mischievous competitors included, to edit your entire Places listing for you. …
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Netflix Pulls Plug on Qwikster
You may recall that we were mulling over the whole Netflix situation only a few weeks ago, which has seemed to be getting more ridiculous ever since the company announced pricing changes in July that made users choke on their dinners. Twice the price for what they were getting …
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Netflix splits into two companies, says they ‘messed up’
It’s safe to say that Netflix pissed off a lot of people when they announced major changes to their pricing structure this past July. The new setup went something like this: $7.99 a month for unlimited streaming and $7.99 a month for one DVD out at a time. However, …
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Courtroom & Boardroom – Google Acquisitions 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Full Size References List of acquisitions by Google German Govt. Says Google Analytics Now Verboten Europe Inquiry Focuses on Google Business Practice Google Says “Ciao” To Antitrust Claim In Italy Google Set For US Senate Committee Anti-Trust Investigation Google Book Search Settlement Rejected By Court Microsoft Comes Out Of Shadows …
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Google Absorbs Zagat in Their Quest for World Domination
Google has had a busy year. The launch of “Facebook killer” Google+ surely had many of their available hands busy, but apparently not too busy to keep working on acquisitions: It was announced today that Google has purchased Zagat, the well-known publisher of restaurant and business ratings. Marissa Mayer, Vice President …
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Savvy Online Business Builders: The New Snake Oil Salesmen
A Look at the Growing Trend of Internet Marketing Con-men We’ve all seen these people at conferences, pimping out their extra shiny business cards and talking like late-night infomercials – the online business strategists and social media experts. They claim to have the secrets to creating a successful online brand …
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$500 million Google Pharmacy Ad Probe Settlement Should Have Little Effect
As expected from page 21 of the May 10 quarterly report to the SEC, Google will pay for a Department of Justice investigation into the use of American ad space for illegal Canadian pharmaceuticals. Finding that from 2003 to 2009, Google “both allowed and helped” Canadian pharmacies that tried to …
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My Space’s Tom Anderson gives Google+ a stamp of approval
Okay, so MySpace may be “dead” now that it’s been sold to Specific Media for a paltry 35 million, but you can bet that many of its years of success had something to do with its founder, Tom Anderson. Your first friend on MySpace now has a shiny Google+ …
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Pittpatt Puts Google Acquisitions To 100
Thursday, Google acquired Carnegie-Mellon University spinoff project PittPatt, which specialized in facial recognition software for businesses like GE. We’ll be a bit naïve here and take Google at their word when they claim they won’t implement full facial recognition software without “strong privacy protections” and intentionally excluded the feature from …
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