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    How Apple Is Becoming A Search Engine

    Avatar von KMR KMR - 30.09.11 21:01 Apple is quietly disintermediating Google in mobile search. Tech writer Dan Frommer says that through its new, voice-controlled mobile “Assistant” feature in iOS 5, Apple could change the way people think of searching, building search-and-retrieve directly into the iOS user interface.

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    S&P Downgrades Google To Sell On Motorola

    Avatar von KMR KMR - 18.08.11 22:24 S&P downgraded Google (GOOG) to sell from buy and put a $500 price target, because of the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility (MMI).

    Analyst Scott Kessler told CNBC, “Google is paying a premium price… they’re buying this company to protect its Android franchise from patent threats, but we don’t think there’s any guaranty that such a...

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    Buffett Warns Of Bubble In Social-Networking IPOs

    Avatar von KMR KMR - 28.03.11 20:29 Warren Buffett, one of the world’s greatest investors, said investors should be wary of valuations in social networking websites as they prepare to sell shares to the public. “Most of them will be overpriced… It’s extremely difficult to value social- networking-site companies… Some will be huge winners, which will make up for the rest”, said...

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    iPad The New Stethoscope

    Avatar von KMR KMR - 24.03.11 21:21 “As I am walking from room to room, I know who I need to see next,” he explained, scrolling through the virtual emergency room patient board on the iPad.

    “I definitely feel lost when I don’t have this on a shift,” he said.

    As the director of emergency medicine at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Nathanson was among the first...

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    Will Social Media Replace Surveys As Research Tool?

    Avatar von KMR KMR - 23.03.11 08:52 The top research executive of likely the world’s biggest research buyer expects surveys to dramatically decline in importance by 2020 and sees the rise of social media as a big reason why.

    Joan Lewis, global consumer and market knowledge officer of Procter & Gamble Co.

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    iPad Wins. Google Android Garbage – Total Waste Of Money

    Avatar von KMR KMR - 04.03.11 20:07 A co-worker at the office asked me if she should buy her son an iPad or Android tablet for his birthday.

    For me the answer is very simply – an iPad. However, I gave her several resources so that she could do a comparison for herself. For $499, the iPad 2 is a far far far better product all round than an Android.

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    Twitter Founder Evan Williams Doesn't Work There Anymore

    Avatar von KMR KMR - 04.02.11 23:36
    Another Twitter founder doesn’t work there anymore. First, it was Jack Dorsey, the guy who came up with the idea, that jumped ship when he realized that it wasn’t going to be smooth sailing. Now it is Evan Williams, the guy who drew investors in, that has jumped shipped.

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    Indians Flee Google Orkut In Droves For Facebook

    Avatar von KMR KMR - 13.01.11 22:14
    Oh Boy! Google just can’t get it right. Internet users in India, one of the fastest growing internet markets, are fleeing Google Orkut in droves for Facebook.


    Facebook has displaced Google Orkut in India and it now accounts for more than 36 percent of visits to social media websites in India versus 14 percent for Google Orkut.

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    Target Launches Social Commerce Initiative

    Avatar von KMR KMR - 30.08.10 22:24
    Discount retailer Target is rolling out a new ad technology that will let shoppers know when their favorite products are on sale.


    Visitors to its website will be able to pick what products they are most interested in and set up custom views of the ad and request alerts when their favorite products are on sale.

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    Facebook Activity Correlate To Low Self-Esteem

    Avatar von KMR KMR - 30.08.10 22:17
    According to a new study by Dr. Soraya Mehdizadeh of York University in Toronto, greater online activity on Facebook is correlated with low self-esteem and narcissism. Hundred Facebook users’ profiles were analyzed against their real-world personalities.

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