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Top Hits on Microsoft’s Bing
In order of importance, here are the top Bing trending topics of the year: 1. Michael Jackson 2. Twitter 3. Swine Flu 4. Stock Market 5. Farrah Fawcett 6. Patrick Swayze 7. Cash for Clunkers 8. Jon and Kate Gosselin 9. Billy Mays 10. Jaycee Dugard No real surprises for the number one, sad news […]
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Google Looks to Expand its Mobile Advertising Presence With the Purchase of AdMob
Google is on the acquisition trail again, announcing recently that it has purchased AdMob, a mobile advertising firm for a cool three quarters of $1 billion. Google is most definitely investing in the future of mobile marketing, touted as the next significant development in the future of Internet browsing. AdMob, being the world’s largest mobile […]
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Twitter Corporate Tools By the End of the Year
Twitter executives have indicated for some time that they are getting ready to go after some revenue making opportunities for a change, as they roll out what they promise will be a more robust, commercially orientated version of the platform. Their monetization plans have long been questioned as the micro-blogging site seems to grow in […]
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Why You Don’t Need Chrome OS
Not everything that Google touches turns to gold, far from it it would seem. In certain opinions, the web behemoth appears to be hard at work devising solutions to problems that people don’t really have. While the company is known, quite rightly so, for being cutting edge and innovative, some of the concepts and ideas […]
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Use Affiliate Marketing To Attract Customers Who Would Not Otherwise Find You
Affiliate marketing has been one of the growth areas of the Web in recent years. Sellers of goods and services understand the power of third party endorsement and know that a concerted affiliate marketing campaign could reach many more potential clients than a simple in-house initiative ever could. Anyone involved in e-commerce should consider an […]
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9 Predictions for 2010
Where were you when we welcomed the new millennium? It seems quite quaint to look back at that moment and remember our fears. Computerized technology would fail everywhere as it would not be able to adapt and recognize the arrival of the new century. Fast forward ten years and our online lives have changed beyond […]
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Bill Gates Is Making a Difference
Microsoft founder and uber-billionaire Bill Gates may not be everyone’s idea of a role model. In an era where success and achievement are typically glamorized by Hollywood interpretation and where all stories need to have a a happy ending, Gates’ journey through our lives has not always been viewed through rose-colored glasses. For many years, […]
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Use Your Website To Get Purchasers to Your Physical Store
As we transition more toward a virtual world, it is quite amazing to see that more than 50% of “bricks and mortar” businesses do not yet have a web presence. As potential consumers use Internet search engines to do their research before they go out into the real world, those companies without a website risk […]
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Try Brizzly to Manage Your Lists
Guess what? Twitter is making more and more sense, at least when you integrate some new applications and platforms. Brizzly, a web-based social media reader may be in beta – invite mode only right now, but it promises to elevate the usability of Twitter and even make it, dare I say it, more Facebook-ish. Brizzly […]
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Get Up and Running Quickly with Windows 7 Using These Free Tools
Early reviews about Windows 7 have been largely positive and many consumers are opting to review the operating system for themselves. To some, however the prospect of migrating all the programs and applications and configuring Windows as they like it can be daunting, even though it may be time for a pretty comprehensive spring clean […]
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