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Live from the Search Marketing Expo (SMX), SEJ brings you the real time SMX Social Media Marketing two-day event. We’ll tweet and report all the key issues being discussed. From optimizing your social media programs, to managing paid campaigns, Las Vegas is the place to be. For Day 1, I sat in on the Blow Me Away …
There are some excellent webinars coming up and I hope at least one works with a time you have open. I’ve heard very postive feedback on some of the recent ones listed. I’m also excited to have registered for Affiliate Summit West! Should be a good show and if you are going, I would welcome …
Marissa Mayer is keeping busy, and it looks like she is going strong versus Google. In a deal whose details remained undisclosed, Yahoo! acquired video chat startup OnTheAir, to bolster Yahoo’s mobile capabilities, but more realistically, to compete with Google+ Hangouts. OnTheAir launched about nine months ago, with big dreams and big ambitions, but never …
A highly publicized UN conference on the future of the internet kicked off in Dubai yesterday, amidst warnings from organizations led by Google and Microsoft that the talks could lead to the end of the World Wide Web as we know it.
Like any organization, Search Engine Journal’s value is reflected in the great contributions of the people involved. For all of us here, and for the great people who read SEJ, November was a super month full of informative and ultimately useful news, advice, and editorial. As the new Editor in Chief, let me say thanks …
Chief regulators meet in Brussels this week to discuss whether or not Google’s competitive strategies are to be litigated, mitigated, penalized, or ignored. The Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Jon Leibowitz, is in Brussels for meetings with his counterpart, Joaquín Almunia, at the European Commission to mull over whether or not Google is unfairly leveraging …
Online sales over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend topped the best sales numbers to date this year. For the holiday season-to-date, $16.4 billion has been spent online, marking a 16-percent increase over last year. Cyber Monday reached $1.465 billion in online spending, representing the heaviest online spending day in history, according to a report released this …
Twitter’s rocky relationship with third party developers makes headlines again, this time in a case of data access. The microblogging company was sued by PeopleBrowsr, a social networking data analysis company, and appeared in the San Francisco Superior Court on Wednesday, where the judge granted PeopleBrowsr a restraining order compelling Twitter to provide full Firehose …
Microsoft has just announced their much anticipated Surface Pro will be released in January, starting at $899 for a 64GB version and $999 for the 128GB version. Both of these come with a Surface pen but the Touch Cover or Type Covers will be sold separately. Also, be aware that the device takes up a significant amount …
Status Update: Our Bob Jones reported yesterday on a furvor over Google Webmaster Tools having had serious security issues. Having contacted Google myself, the company’s official response to the situation was forthcoming today. Google insists the “access granted” problem was highly localized, and that the problem has since been resolved. By way of background, while …
