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Facebook IPO: Is a $100 Billion Valuation Cool?

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One of the most anticipated events in .com history is finally upon us: Facebook has filed for its Initial Public Offering (IPO) and everybody is speculating about how high the company’s valuation will go.

We asked a couple of experts to shed some light on the matter: Professor Mark T. Leary, of Olin Business School, believes that at IPO the firm will have a total market value in the $80 – $100 billion range:

“I don’t doubt that investors will be willing to pay that price for the shares, based on the valuations coming out of their past private issuances and recent online auctions for private shares,” he says.

But just because people are willing to pay that price, does it actually mean that Facebook is worth that much? [Read more...]

February 23, 2012

What Can Google+ Offer Your Business?

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In June of 2011, Google announced Google+, its next effort for social.

On the heels of the not-so-successful Wave project, Google+ is clearly intended as an amalgamation of many social services already on the market, but better.

With the company reportedly preparing to launch their official brand profiles platform by late fall, they’ve asked major brands to hold-off marketing their businesses on the outlet until formalized pages have been released.

Rumor has it this new platform will include an open API for applications and potentially good insight into data usage.

One of the challenges currently facing brands is the desire [Read more...]

January 11, 2012

Technology and Apps: To Trust, That is the Question!

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By: Alexandra Campuzano, guest blogger

Late last week I walked into Subway craving a tuna sub with all the toppings.

As I bee-lined way to the order counter, I noticed one of my co-workers at a table neglecting her BMT (rude!). She was preoccupied and her forehead had those ‘This does not look good’ wrinkles as she intently looked at her phone. I stopped by to say ‘hello’ and see if she was okay.

Turns out, she couldn’t find her debit card.

She’d looked everywhere.

Image via weheartit.com

So I asked her if she was Googling her banks number on her phone. [Read more...]

October 17, 2011

New Social Media Fragrance – Making Geeks Irresistible?

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One of the world’s largest networks of online forums, CrowdGather announced that it will launch a fragrance targeted at dedicated online communities, which are made up largely of gamers and tech geeks. [Read more...]

June 9, 2011

The Current Evolution of Online and Offline Gaming

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© Tom Atkinson 2011

Last Saturday I attended an event in Bristol (this is the original one, in England by the way) called igfest, which stands for interesting games festival.

The proposition a bunch of grownups to play a lot of different games together;  running, dancing, bouncing balls, dressing up, squirting water pistols, shouting and laughing… and basically turning the city into one giant playground. [Read more...]

June 2, 2011

Facebook and Your Privacy: A Match Not Made in Digital Culture Heaven

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From: weheartit.com

Facebook has been in the news a lot lately, but not necessarily for the right reasons.

Earlier in May 2011, it emerged that it had hired a very well-known PR agency to plant stories against Google relating to user privacy.

Considering Facebook’s own issues with privacy, this gives the impression that the company is trying to make itself look better by making its competitors look good as opposed to getting its act together. [Read more...]

May 26, 2011

The Media Revolution: EPIC 2015, Prometeus and GoogleZon

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I was in awe…whether it’s a good awe, or a bad awe, is up for debate, but I was in awe nonetheless.

In the year 2014 the New York times has gone offline.

The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned.

What happened to the news?

And what is EPIC?

(source, source 2)

Has anyone heard [Read more...]

December 9, 2009

I am the Internet: Are you a Dependent?

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via the Examiner.com

When Twitter broke a few weeks ago, I thought I thought I would cry. Then it nearly took Facebook with it and I was like, seriously? C’mon now…

The need, want and yearning I had once felt was gone. BAM!

Well, the mother of all things happened last week – Gmail went down.

Google, the mothership, went down.

#Gfail!

How could you do this to me?!

*one sentence rant over*

But yes, my friends, how dependent are we on the Internet? [Read more...]

September 10, 2009

{Rules of PR no. 11} PRoactive: Raw Social Media ‘Neda,’ #IranElection & #CNNwin

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Iran in Flames by .faramarz via Flickr.

*(Photos by .faramarz on Flickr, in my opinion best photo stream on the Internet, alongside Mousavi1388)

Andrew Muellerandrewmueller @SashaHalima @anncurry #IranElection hashtag should be changed to #IranSlaughter
11 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to SashaHalima

It’s no secret that for the past week the 2009 Iranian elections have been trickling through in mass numbers across the Internet, television and print.

From live blogging via the Huffington Post, to Facebook starting a Farsi version, to Twitter rescheduling its maintenance to Google, who, not only, is offering Farsi as a new translated service, but has also mapped out the embassies in Iran via Google Maps, there seems to be no real lack of information; even from CNN.


View Embassies Accepting Injured People in Tehran in a larger map

The American cable news network, who was once accused of failing to cover the election controversy when the streets of Tehran initially went up in flames, has been PRoactively [Read more...]

June 22, 2009

Google to launch Farsi-English translator

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Ariya Melaat cartoon via Gooya News Iran

UPDATE: June 19, 2009 9:46 a.m.
Google HAS launched a Farsi translator. Visit the official Google Blog and the actual translator for information and resources.

Original Article Continued Below…

 

 

In lieu of the the trending #IranElection, constant coverage and aftermath of the #CNNFail, the Huffington Post and journalist Ann Curry are reporting that Google, the search engine super-giant, is launching an Farsi to English translator on it’s website starting Friday June 19.

Yay? or nay?

8:59 PM ET — Huge news. For the last several days, people have been pressuring Google to make their homepage logo green for a day in a show of solidarity. They’ve decided to do something far more significant.

Tomorrow, Google will launch a Farsi/English translation service, an ingenious way to help Iranians and English speakers exchange information and aid each other more effectively. Add this to their Iran coverage on Citizen Tube, and their decision to relax standards on graphic videos for the scenes coming out of Iran, and they deserve some serious props.

For more information:

Who is Who in the #IranElection Controversy

The Twitter Effect: Watching #IranElection

How Twitter Shamed CNN with #IranElection and #CNNFail

 

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June 18, 2009