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As Facebook’s IPO is Announced, Who Are the Key Players?
05/18/2012 by
After four months of paperwork, hype and speculation, the last piece of the Facebook IPO is in place: Facebook said it has priced its IPO at $38 a share. At that price, Facebook’s IPO will raise $16 billion, making it the largest tech IPO in history. It’s the third largest U.S. IPO ever, trailing only the [...]
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iZettle, Europe’s rival to Square, Checks Out Mobile Payments In The UK
05/18/2012 by social media council
Swedish payments startup iZettle has made its most significant move since coming out of beta last year, with a pilot program to enter the potentially huge British market. British Market Until now the company, billed as Europe’s equivalent to Square, has so far only made its product — a free plug-in dongle and app that let small merchants [...]
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The Social Media Monitoring LandscapeToday
05/17/2012 by Cat Fraser
Cat Fraser is an ambitious Social Business Innovator and MD/ Founder of Fourinsight Ltd. Fourinsight partners with forward-thinking agencies and brands to design and deliver Strategic Social Reporting across six core report areas: Best practice; Benchmark; Performance; Investigative; Trending and Real-Time Planning. In this article she discusses social media monitoring and how to understand it’s [...]
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The Fashion World and Social Media – A Perfect Fit
05/17/2012 by James Baron
Social media is changing the way businesses interact with their customers and vice versa. Social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Tumbler and Youtube have transformed the way our entire society functions, bringing forth new ways to interact with our family and friends. Some industries have taken to this new medium with great ease, none more than the [...]
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Twitter Reaches 10 Million Mark in UK
05/16/2012 by social media council
Twitter has revealed today that it now has 10 million active users in the UK and 140 million worldwide, underlining the rapid growth in the microblogging network since it launched just six years ago. Contact The network, which limits users to 140 character updates, has also changed the dynamic between celebrities and the media. It [...]
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Facebook Launches New App Center
05/16/2012 by social media council
Facebook have announced the launch of their new App Center, a place for people to purchase new apps and for developers to grow their own newly created ones. The Center Facebook have decided to get into the app store business, announcing an initiative called App Center which it claims will help developers get their social web [...]
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The Cars of the Future – Self Driving and Socially Networked
05/15/2012 by James Baron
When it comes to imagining what the cars of the future will look like, Hollywood has come up with a few classic examples. Be it the amazing flying cars in Back to the Future II and Bladerunner, or the cars that drive themselves and are self aware in I Robot. But what will the car [...]
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Facebook’s Number One Priority is Mobile App
05/15/2012 by social media council
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has told would be investors that making the Facebook Mobile App a more streamline and effective product is his main priority at the moment. With more people than ever using smartphones and accessing sites like Facebook on them, the big question is how the company can make more money with advertising on mobile. Mobile [...]
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The History of Social Recruiting – Infographic
05/14/2012 by social media council
Digital recruiting has become a very popular method for companies to find new talent for their vacancies. It can bypass the expensive job agencies and target specific qualities in a candidate that are required for the position. Social recruiting falls into two different categories. The first is internet sourcing using social media profiles, blogs, and [...]
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DigitalMR – Profile of a Leader in Social Media Monitoring
05/11/2012 by James Baron
Founded two years ago by a market research expert, Michalis A. Michael, Digital MR is an international holistic web based market research company. A pioneer in the field of Social Media market research, Digital MR utilises various social media research tools and sophisticated technology platforms to enhance its business consulting approach. Communities Private online communities are an [...]
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Sysomos – Profile of a Leader in Social Media Monitoring
05/10/2012 by James Baron
Sysomos is a Toronto based company that offers social media monitoring and analytics products to give corporations, marketers, public relations agencies and advertisers the intelligence and insight needed to make smarter business and strategic decisions. Creation Sysomos, Greek for “everything together”, emerged from an advanced research project started in 2005 at the University of Toronto. [...]
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Radian6 – Profile of a Leader in Social Media Monitoring
05/09/2012 by James Baron
Radian6 was recently hailed as the most innovative vendor in the social listening landscape. Radian6 provides social media monitoring for marketing, communications and customer support professionals, turning social media conversations into actionable marketing and business data. In this article we will have a closer look at this platform. Creation Radian6 co-founders Chris Newton (@cdnewt) and Chris [...]
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