This morning, Yelp announced a new business partnership with Bing and unveiled its plan to provide Bing’s local search pages with trusted user reviews and other information. According to the agreement, Yelp will be providing review snippets, photos, and other business attributes that Bing will feature prominently on the Bing Local pages. Although the Bing …
With WordPress powering more than 16% of all websites, people have been asking Facebook to release an official WordPress plugin for years. Yesterday, Facebook finally launched the brand new, official WordPress plugin that will help bloggers and site owners use Facebook to promote their sites and encourage social interaction. The Facebook for WordPress plugin does …
Facebook, which was one of the most hyped initial public offerings of all-time, is hoping to reverse the stock’s bad fortune with yet another staff acquisition. Although Facebook is the world’s number one social network with over 900 million users, the company has had difficulty monetizing the rapid growing mobile sector of its user-base and …
Jeffery Katz, a vocal Google critic and the CEO of Nextag, recently published an article in The Wall Street Journal claiming that Google is misusing its monopolistic powers to squash competing companies. In the article, Katz emphasized that Google currently holds 82% of the global search market and 98% of the mobile search markets, which …
Due to the company’s inability to monetize mobile users, the Facebook stock, which opened at $38 and is currently trading in the $26 range, has been pummeled since its May 18th IPO. Now, even as the stock continues to fall, Facebook’s rival Twitter has revealed their mobile revenues are strong. Yesterday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo …
In Facebook’s IPO paperwork filed February 1, the social network indicated that mobile advertising was a potential revenue stream and that lack of ad revenue from mobile users could prove harmful. Even though concerns regarding the monetization of mobile users arose long before its May 18 IPO, Facebook’s current plummeting stock price reflects the continued …
With the Facebook stock continuing its free-fall and shareholders filing a lawsuit against him, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company could really use a positive story. However, instead of good news, a prominent financial analyst recently predicted that Facebook will “disappear” in the near future. Eric Jackson, the founder of Ironfire Capital, said the …
With local businesses spending over $20 billion on marketing each year, Google is hopeful that the recently announced small-business services will help them capture some of the highly-profitable market share. As early as next month, Google is expected to begin promoting new services that will help local businesses make better marketing decisions. Google is expected …
Ed Felten, the Federal Trade Commission’s chief technology officer, recently announced that Twitter is now providing support for the Do Not Track feature. The feature, which was initially proposed by researchers in 2009, was first implemented by Mozilla Firefox in early 2011. Since that time, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera have all added support and …
Although Google has already done an impressive job indexing the web and using algorithmic processes to serve users relevant results, they have been concentrating on developing a graph of semantic information and incorporating that information within the search results. Yesterday, Google officially announced the Knowledge Graph and began rolling out the new features for Google …
