Marketing Lessons Startups Need to Learn from Google’s Project Glass Concept Video

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Editor’s note:  This is a guest post by Neil Patel, co-founder of  KISSmetrics  and blogger at  QuickSprout.com . You may have seen it by now… Google’s concept video about its new Project Glass . These glasses will do what your smart phone will do only without having to...
Newspaper Attacks UK Government For Its ‘Closeness’ To Google

Newspaper Attacks UK Go...

UK tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail, has decided to raise the issue of Google’s influence on the UK government, after uncovering the fact that Conservative Party ministers have held meetings with Google an average of once a month since the General Election two years ago. There have...

Personalization Is Not ...

Editor’s note: Scott Brave is the CTO and co-founder, Baynote . We’ve all watched from the sidelines as companies have come out in a burst of glory, and then, two years later, spent their venture capital, lost their user base, and failed to monetize. This begs the question...
Zuckerberg Receives Hoodie, Says “Our Mission Isn’t To Be A Public Company” In Pre-IPO Remarks

Zuckerberg Receives Hoo...

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg received a commemorative hoodie from the NASDAQ CEO Bob Greifeld and thanked his site’s users in opening remarks recorded before he rang the NASDAQ opening bell this morning. In his short speech that just aired on Bloomberg TV which you can...
Spotting The Next Facebook: Why Emotions Are Big Business

Spotting The Next Faceb...

Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is the founder of two acquired startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. Nir blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com . Follow him on Twitter @nireyal . Tomorrow Facebook will sell shares...

Vizibility Launches Its...

Love’em or hate’em, despite the best efforts of Bump and others, traditional business cards aren’t going away anytime soon. At least, though, some companies are trying to bridge the gap between paper cards and efforts like Bump. New York-based Vizibility first announced...
Facebook Will Have The Biggest Tech IPO Ever, Raising $16 Billion With $38 Share Price

Facebook Will Have The ...

Facebook shares will start trading at $38 tomorrow, the company confirmed in a release , giving it a valuation of $104.12 billion. Facebook and its early shareholders will raise just over $16 billion in tomorrow’s much anticipated IPO. At a $104 billion valuation, Facebook is...
StrayBoots CEO Discusses Making $12 Per Game, And It’s Only On SMS!

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Very rarely do we see gaming startups launch on the rather limited platform of SMS. Mobile games are all about the graphics, the functionality, and the ability to leverage the very best of technology through an app. But StrayBoots , a real-world scavenger hunt via text, has managed to...
Pay To “Highlight” Your Facebook Status Updates To More Friends – A Reckless New Ads Test

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Only 12% of your friends see your average status update, but Facebook is testing an option called “Highlight” that lets you pay a few dollars to have one of your posts appear to more friends. Highlight lets the average user, not Pages or businesses, select an “important...

Wi-Fi Alliance Pushes P...

Smartphone and tablets owners are clamoring for access to more Wi-Fi on the go, or so a new study from the Wi-Fi Alliance claims. Out of 1,000 US-based smartphone and tablet owners, 87% of them indicated that they wanted greater Wi-Fi availability for their mobile devices, and 85% said...

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