The results are in: Cyber Monday (and Black Friday) = success! The numbers are actually up from last year, despite the state the economy is still in. And according to Hitwise, social sites helped to drive sales. (Yeah, FOR REAL.)
Their data shows that not only was US traffic up to social sites over the holiday [...]
Is it hip to be square again? Maybe according to Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. His new startup, called Square, is a mobile payments (credit card processing) system that appeals to small businesses. But is he targeting the right customers?
I think we’ve all heard rumors of a credit card reader for the iPhone—and this is it. [...]
When Google’s Matt Cutts makes this statement on Twitter:
“This is important. Google provides webmaster tool to see how fast your site is…”
You can pretty much take to the bank that Google is getting ready to add site load speed to its complex search algorithm.
In fact, Cutts points us to this Google announcement:
On Site Performance, you’ll [...]
It appears that it is finally safe to say that if mobile hasn’t completely arrived it is certainly in the room and recognized for its potential. Should we declare 2010 as the ‘Year of Mobile’? Sure, why not. There will be others and honestly it means nothing to hype it. Let’s look at what’s actually [...]
At the rate Yahoo is dumping its own technology and partnering with others, the only thing left that will be “Yahoo built” will be these bloody big pens:
A little over a year since Yahoo announced the expansion of Yahoo Profiles, the search engine, portal, social network, we-don’t-know-what-we-are company is apparently ready to ditch its own [...]
