What began with chalk drawings on unused advertising panels in New York City subways ended with international superstardom and a life cut prematurely short, all within the space of a decade. Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Keith Haring.
What began with chalk drawings on unused advertising panels in New York City subways ended with international superstardom and a life cut prematurely short, all within the space of a decade. Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Keith Haring.
in “Optimize”, Lee Odden contends that it takes many stakeholders in an organization – and not just on the marketing team – to contribute to an effective content marketing program and integrate it with search and social marketing.
As the Google-Oracle trial continues into its second week, Oracle lawyers today interrogated Google executives Andy Rubin and former CEO Eric Schmidt about emails written within the company on the topic of Java licensing in 2005 and 2006.
Forget 15 minutes of fame. Google, eBay, and Berkeley University researches have concluded today’s stars don’t dim quite so quickly, thanks to sites like Twitter. They were unable to find any statistically significant decrease in fame duration.
Forget data mining. Google CEO Larry Page and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt seem to have set their sights on far loftier goals: asteroid mining. Well, that at least, is the assumption, as Planetary Resources has yet to reveal its purpose.
Not content with Google’s $25,000 fine for obstructing a Federal Communications Commission Wi-Fi data collection investigation, a U.S. lawmaker and the Electronic Privacy Information Center are calling for further investigations of Google.
When the Republican National Convention (RNC) convenes in Tampa, Florida, from Aug. 27-30, Google will be its “official social platform and live stream provider,” presenting coverage of RNC events, programs, and interviews via Google+ and YouTube.
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Retail is inherently visual, so it comes as no surprise that two of the biggest online sellers – Amazon and eBay – have added Pinterest buttons to product pages. Expect more online retailers to add the Pinterest button to product pages.
Facebook has made good on its vow to fight Yahoo’s patent claim by filing a counter suit also alleging patent infringement. Facebook claims Yahoo was infringing on 10 of its patents related to the operation of its web services and social networking.
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A new study from Simply Measured states the weeks-old Timeline format has lifted engagement with many brand posts by 46 percent, providing some third-party support for how new features like pinning can make the platform more effective.





