Localmind Uses Foursquare & Facebook Checkins for Q&A Platform
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Bing Shopping Gets More Social, Visual
Microsoft has redesigned Bing Shopping to help consumers make “more informed shopping decisions”, according to the announcement on the Bing Search blog. The revamped homepage provides a more visual display of the most popular items and content, where articles and categories are arranged next to top searches, popular products and the… [[ This is a […]
Microsoft’s Quarterly Profit Falls Below Apple’s for First Time in 20 Years
Microsoft reported a smaller quarterly profit than Apple for the first time in 20 years as the iPad ate into sales of laptop computers. Microsof…
Book a Better Hotel Room With Room 77
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Startup Lets You Rent Fine Art, Netflix-Style
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How One Startup Will Prioritize Your Social Inbox & Personalize the Web
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New Startup Aims to “Make Paper Sexy” With Crowdsourced Designs
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Facebook Chat In Hotmail Goes Live Worldwide
Five months ago, Microsoft announced that Hotmail users in Brazil, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S. could begin to chat with their Facebook friends while checking their email. Now the integration of Hotmail and Facebook Chat is complete in every place where Facebook is available. We’ll admit: this may not sound like a […]
Bing Gets Behind "Future Of Search" Series
Anyone who’s interested in what Bing will do next can perhaps relax. Rather than make onlookers fight for every scrap of information, the organization seems to be tending towards openness, announcing today that it will back a sort of multimedia series called "The Future of Search." A post on the Bing Search Blog explained, "Here […]
Google Docs Viewer Now Handles 12 More File Types
The Google Docs Viewer just got a whole lot more useful. Now, it lets you view more than just PDFs, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents, dis…
Social Networks Consume 22% Of Australians' Time Online
Facebook (along with a few other social media sites) exerts a strong pull in many countries all over the world, and new stats from comScore confirm that one of them is Australia. comScore’s found that Australians dedicated almost 22 percent of their time online in December 2010 to social networks, versus 16.6 percent a year […]
How Asia responds to Social Media Marketing
When it comes to social media, Asians have certain peculiar engagement needs and the following excerpts from a study will help you discover them. Covering 15 countries including Singapore, China and India the […] Related posts: Social Media Marketing in The Rising Market, Asia [STATS] Google CEO Eric Schmidt told us through his speech that… […]
Yahoo-Bing Alliance Pays off for Paid Search
Marin Software published a report last week (“Why the Search Alliance Is Paying Off for Paid Search”) which suggests the Microsoft and Yahoo search alliance increased the share of paid-search impressions by 4% and share of clicks by 2%. Consequently, Google’s share declined by the same percentage according to Marin. According to… [[ This is […]
New Recipe Search Engine Brings Food to Facebook
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Here’s a Cool, Sleek and Top Selling iPod nano Watch
If you’re looking for a watch, you might want to consider iWatchz, an iPod nano watch. Okay, it isn’t really a watch but it’s a really simple to use ‘Press, Slide, Click’ system to secure your iPod nano 6 in place. Its Q collection was first launched in 24 November last year and was among […]