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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Forbes - Social MediaWhen starting a company, appealing to a narrow niche of passionate customers is a good strategy. As Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham put it: "ou can either build something a large number of people want a small amount, or something a s...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Forbes - Social Media
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Forbes - Social MediaThere is a lot of talk online tonight about the upcoming iPhone 6 handsets and the size of the RAM that will be in the handset. With conflicting sources citing 1 GB or 2 GB, it's hard to get a clear picture. I guess we'll know in due cou...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Forbes - Social MediaLast Thursday night, Telstra-backed start-up accelerator, Muru-D, hosted a pitch event and party for its first graduating class of nine companies. Meaning ‘path to digital’, Muru-D is a six-month program that invests AUD$40,000 per tech ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media newsPolice employees have been issued with a raft of guidelines in how to avoid bringing the force into disrepute via social media
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsEver visit Facebook and realize that there's not nearly enough Eater going on? Click on over to the Eater National Facebook page or the "Follow Us" section on the right, and then like magic, Eater's top stories will s...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Facebook Newsroom
The Facebook data team analyzed the viral activity seen on the platform related to the ice bucket challenge between June 1 – August 17. Over 28 million people have joined the conversation about the ice bucket challenge including posting,... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsTwitter is on its way to Santa Monica, taking over two adjacent one-story buildings at Pico Boulevard and Main Street, the Santa Monica Daily Press reports. The tech giant is making some...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from VentureBeat » social
Tumblr has enlisted image-recognition startup Ditto Labs to help brands see how their stuff appears in pictures on the microblogging site, Mashable reports today. The news is interesting from a corporate perspective — another socia... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from SocialTimes.comIt can be difficult for academic researchers to get their hands on social media data. As The Guardian reports : “The major services at least have a vibrant community of developers and researchers working on ways to access and use d...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsEver visit Facebook and realize that there's not nearly enough Eater going on? Click on over to the Eater Chicago Facebook page or the "Follow Us" section on the right, and then like magic, Eater's top stories will st...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from AllFacebookOne of the biggest advantages that Facebook offers to advertisers is the ability to conduct precise interest targeting . Brands have the ability to target their Facebook updates directly to precise niche audiences based on people’s inter...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsFacebook said on Monday that it is testing a way to let members know when articles posted to the social network are tongue-in-cheek instead of hand-on-heart. Evidently, users of the world's leading social network need a bit of help ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Inside Facebook
You might have at least one Facebook friend who thinks that Morgan Freeman is really dead, or some satirical Onion headline is the truth. Facebook wants to stop the sharing of satire as fact, as the... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from MediaPost.com: socialTumblr is partnering with Ditto Labs to help the photo-analytics start-up track brand logos that show up in user posts. Tumblr is positioning the deal as purely research-based. The deal gives Ditto access to the roughly 130 million photo...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from VentureBeat » social
The Digital Ecologies Research Partnership hopes to help researchers explore why people love watching fish play Pokemon and other weird web phenomenon. -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from MediaPost.com: socialShift, a marketing software company with a focus on social, on Monday announced the appointment of Andrea Wolinetz as VP of agency partnerships, a new position at the company.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media | Digital TrendsPanasonic is going all out for its 5-inch ToughPad FZ-E1 phablet. The super durable device now has its own comic book series and a sweepstakes contest. The post Panasonic published a comic book about an I.T. guy saving the world with his...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from The Next Web » Social MediaA month ago Evernote updated its Web Clipper for Chrome and today Safari gets the same treatment. The updated Web Clipper for Safari has a new compact layout that resides in the top right hand corner of your browser window with all the t...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaInstagram's platform continues to generate impressive metrics from year to the next. Since the acquisition by the parent company Facebook it has been nothing short of social media success and victory for users actively posting on the pla...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from SocialTimes.comThose small moving images files better known as GIFs are the darlings of the Internet, but they’re also annoying to create without Photoshop. That’s no longer true with this new web application that lets you generate your own...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from AllFacebookDespite warning after warning after warning , 78 percent of online users aged 16 and above who responded to a recent survey by online security firm Kaspersky Lab do not believe cyber-criminals are interested in targeting them, or are...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from TechCrunch » SocialA new “anonymish” app called Looksee has launched, combining mobile photography with a Tinder-like matching element that lets anonymous users connect with each other over their shared photos. The idea is that when two u...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Forbes - Social MediaRoll out the red carpet for your next product with some celebrity star power.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Networking Watch: News on the Social Networking and Social Media Industry
AA - Aug 17 - Senior officials from Twitter will hold a third meeting with Turkish officials on Aug 25th to discuss various issues including the blocking of offensive content on the site and opening of a Twitter office in...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsTwitter co-founder and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is using the platform he created to shed light on the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting that left an unarmed black teenager dead. The incident has sparked more than a week of civil unrest t...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from AllFacebookTwo Facebook Preferred Marketing Developers announced the formation of a strategic partnership, as Brazilian digital agency Riot will use the Swat.io social-media-management system from Austrian software agency Die Socialisten . (more...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from SocialTimes.comImage by Pascale Kinchen (Douglas) via Flickr Go to any website, social or informational, and you’re very likely to encounter ads. If you see a pop-up ad or a pop-up window, you’ve got Ethan Zuckerman to thank. It’s pos...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from MediaPost.com: socialMadison Avenue is swimming in "dark pools," and consumers are turning the lights off themselves, at least in social. Speaking at the Mobile Insider Summit on Monday, Richard Rabbat, Tango's VP of platform, said consumers are moving towar...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Forbes - Social MediaFounded in 1988, The Onion is a parody news organization that publishes fake articles like “Busch Gardens Unveils New 9,600-Mile-Long Endurance Coaster” and “LensCrafters, Pearle Vision Agree To Prisoner Exchange.” The Onion’s websites h...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media Impact
Instagram is a lot more than a widely used app to take cool pictures with; it can be used as an efficient marketing tool as well. Its popularity has grown tremendously, which makes it an exciting option for non-profit organizations and s... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from Inside Facebook
Facebook appears to making it easier for pages to utilize a call to action. As discovered by Memorado and Inside Facebook reader Matteo Gamba, some pages have the option to add a call to action when they upload a video. Facebook has... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from AllFacebookWill Facebook data partners such as Datalogix, Epsilon, Acxiom and BlueKai soon have their own portal on the social network? (more…) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media .
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from The Next Web » Social MediaSome Facebook users are now able to add stickers when posting comments on the social network. We contacted Facebook to learn more, and the company confirmed it is currently testing the new feature. “We are running a test which allows you...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from SocialTimes.comSocial media has entered a new phase. Before, the goal was to gain followers and fans. But now, marketers are under more pressure to show proof of demonstrable business results. In keeping with this transition, the social media marketing...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from MediaPost.com: socialThose evil bosses are at it again: more employers plan to begin or increase their monitoring of employees' social media use and other personal data over the next decade, according to a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers -- and unsurpri...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from AllFacebookFacebook users who click on links promising them $250 gift cards to McDonald’s are becoming victims of The Hamburglar, in the form of online scammers . (more…) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media .
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Inside Facebook
Swat.io (an offering by Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Die Socialisten) and RIOT announced Monday that they have formed a strategic partnership. RIOT, a Brazilian PMD with 300 employees in 4 locations, will integrate Swat.io tech... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Forbes - Social MediaLegal survival of the daily fantasy sports industry relies on the important presumption that contest outcomes are driven primarily by skill, rather than chance. Thus far, the daily fantasy sports lobby has made a reasonable case that sk...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from SocialTimes.comSocial networks are constantly evolving, and users are often unhappy with these changes. Facebook’s messenger spin-off has received a lot of negative feedback , and UI changes come with vocal backlash. But the tweaks keep coming. Most re...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from MediaPost.com: socialThe top areas of projected media budget growth over the next year are social advertising and online video (71% of marketers project growth in each of these areas), social engagement campaigns (69%), retargeting (67%) and search engine ma...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from MediaPost.com: socialDavid Carr credits Twitter for forcing the mainstream media to focus on the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. “Often derided as a platform for banalities, [Twitter] has become much more than that in the age of always-on information,&rd...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from VentureBeat » social
Social news aggregator Nuzzel is rolling out a handful of custom news feed pages that show what founders and investors at the top venture capital firms are reading every day. The move comes weeks after the startup has success with its fi... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from AllFacebookFacebook is testing the use of stickers in comments . (more…) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media .
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from NYT > Social MediaIs sharing videos and pictures a violation of a child’s right to privacy, or a simple act to remain connected to friends and family?
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from HotinSocialMedia.com
Last week HotinSocialMedia.com started a photo competition on Twitter: Best photos from Twitter. We don’t had a lot of photos with the #hotinsocialmedia hashtag on our first edition of “Best photos from Twitter”... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from Forbes - Social MediaCo-authored with Ian Lurie, CEO and founder of Seattle-based Portent Inc. A version of this post first appeared on the Portent blog. Editorial teams control the single most 'future proof' search rankings factor: Content quality. Consiste...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 from BizReportThe old adage, "you get what you pay for" may no longer be true when it comes to traditional paid media investments. Effectiveness of traditional advertising and paid media - TV, newspaper, print - is on the decline, so marketers are cho...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 from Cloud Services WorldNIKE Inc. the global leader in athletic footwear apparel equipment and accessories has agreed to work with Juniper to co-create a new highly scalable next-generation data center cloud and retail network infrastructure.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 from Cloud Services WorldPlatform securely bridges access between IL2 and IL3 data while providing connectivity to the Public Services Network.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from International Business TimesThe hunger for the latest news on the shooting death of Michael Brown and its aftermath has pushed viewers worldwide to Vine, where journalists and citizens alike have posted a continuous stream of updates chronicling the unrest in Fergu...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from International Business TimesThe continuing unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, is quickly becoming a tale of two Internets. For the last 72 hours, newswatchers have been glued to social media for updates on the latest developments in suburban St. Louis, where fierce prot...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Search Engine JournalSeth Godin, prolific marketer and founder of Squidoo, announced late last week that his content platform is getting acquired by HubPages. Popular content on Squidoo will move over to HubPages following the acquisition. Squidoo and HubPag...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Internet | The GuardianCases breaching social media guidelines include racist and threatening remarks and 'friend' requests to crime victims Hundreds of police employees have been investigated for breaching social media guidelines at forces across England and ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Internet | The GuardianCompany expands offer range to encourage customers to browse site, rather than simply respond to daily deal emails Groupon has overhauled its UK website as it steps up efforts to shake off its past as king of the internet "daily dea...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Reuters: Internet NewsBOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Community Health Systems Inc , one of the biggest U.S. hospital groups, said on Monday it was the victim of a cyber attack from China, resulting in the theft of Social Security numbers and other personal data ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Search Engine JournalSeventy percent of all mobile searchers have called a business directly from search ads, Google says, but what about those searchers that call a business after clicking on a search ad? Now there’s a way to track those people. Today Googl...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Domain Name Wire
Porsche.social is just a parked page, but its owners claim to be creating a free site for Porsche enthusiasts. Car company Porsche has lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension cybersquatting case it brought against the San Jose, California owner ... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Thinking about buying a new car? A generation ago, you would have influenced by a TV commercial, then you’d spread out the newspaper to help you hone in on the right car at the right price. Final step – it’s off to the ... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from E-Commerce Times
Gryphon Networks has had a presence in the sales intelligence and marketing compliance space for several years, primarily working through carriers. About two years ago, however, it tweaked its direction after CEO Jeffrey Fotta noticed a ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from E-Retailers ArticlesAnother dispute over e-book prices sets the e-retailer against Swiss publisher Bonnier.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from TechRadar: Internet newsWhen children use the internet they're supposed to play games they read about on the backs of cereal boxes, not check their Gmail accounts and write Facebook statuses. The internet-at-large can be a scary place for kids, after all, but G...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Phys.org: Internet NewsFacebook said on Monday that it is testing a way to let members know when articles posted to the social network are tongue-in-cheek instead of hand-on-heart.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CircleID
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
If you’ve ever been fooled by a fake news story on Facebook, you’ll like the feature the social network is testing. Mashable has confirmed that Facebook is testing a “satire” notation on stories that show up in yo... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from CircleID
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from TorrentFreak
A U.S. federal court in Oregon has granted a broad injunction against several streaming sites that offer pirated content. Among other things, the copyright holder may order hosting companies to shut down the sites' servers, ask registrar... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from Domain Name Wire
Company goes direct to customers to promote its niche domain names. “If you build it, they will come.” Not if they don’t know you’ve built it! Although there are close to 200 new top level domain names on the mark... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from CircleID
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from eWeek - Cloud - RSS FeedChrome is getting broader "Safe Browsing" protection capabilities that will alert users if a safe-appearing download actually is a malicious app in disguise.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Reuters: Internet NewsLONDON (Reuters) - One of the world's largest online games companies, Miniclip, has hired advisers to find a buyer after previous attempts to sell it fell through, according to several sources familiar with the firm.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Internet | The GuardianDavid Cameron announces scheme starting in October 'to help parents protect their children from graphic content' Online music videos will carry an age classification from October as part of a pilot scheme by YouTube, music video service ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from E-commerce | The GuardianCan a one-size-fits-all, low-price, consumer-dominated sales model support a diverse, innovative, challenging literary output? It is either an existential threat to intellectual freedom or a rustbelt media industry meeting its comeuppanc...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from My Blogger TricksThe image on the left shows snappy the 'Host'-gator cooking up its competition which it'll have for lunch :). HostGator is back again with another bang this summer, offering a great value sale offer. What's the occasion ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from InstantShift
When judging a websites’ potential and worth, one of the most popular metrics to use is the unique visitor count, which more or less can show how many people have opened at least one page on a website. But while this stat has some purpos... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from E-commerce | The GuardianFrom children's fancy dress to DIY and gardening equipment, the people who made a living from online auctions Continue reading...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CircleID
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Search Engine People Blog
Facebook's Start to Success Program gives small businesses an opportunity to work directly with an account manager from Facebook on their Facebook marketing. However, there's a catch. Businesses have to spend at least $50 per d... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: Internet technologyThe Labour party has said it will build on GDS's work and retain the network's staff if it wins the 2015 general election
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from TechRadar: Internet newsThe fervor surrounding smaller tablets like the iPad mini and Nexus 7 appears to have mostly fallen on deaf ears in Japan, but Sony may finally be getting the message, if a brief new product mention in an unlikely place is any indication...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from E-commerce | The GuardianIn the 15 years since its first UK sale, the e-commerce pioneer has made millionaires and reinvented itself. Has it lost its edge? This week in 1999 a man in Renfrewshire bought a CD single of You & I by the German heavy metal band S...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Domain Name Wire
Professional poker player and domain investor Dutch Boyd publishes Poker Tilt. A key reason I like the domain name industry is that I get to meet people from very different backgrounds. One of these people is Dutch Boyd, a three-time Wor... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from Search Engine JournalOver the last few years, social media has had a huge impact in our everyday lives. It has completely changed the way we engage the world, both locally and internationally. However, much of what is showcased focuses on the negative aspect...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: Internet technologyFree and open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack could reach an estimated market size of $1.7bn by 2016
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Phys.org: Internet NewsThe web can be an opaque black box: it leverages our personal information without our knowledge or control. When, for instance, a user sees an ad about depression online, she may not realize that she is seeing it because she recently sen...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: Internet technologyBanks and financial services enterprises in Poland are split between strict regulations and security concerns, and cloud’s benefits
