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Indexing all the world's information to make it available to the masses has become Google's mantra over the years. But how do you open up closed systems to deep link … Read the whole story
Some 57% of the buying process -- marketing's territory -- gets done before customers interact with sales. Search, social and other online media continue … Read the whole story
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I joined Twitter in 2007 and spent the next two years explaining to friends and colleagues why they HAD to be on it, as … Read the whole story
Google reported revenue for the second quarter rose 22% to $15.9 billion, compared with the year-ago quarter. Aggregate paid clicks for ads served on … Read the whole story
COMMENTARYNot everyone uses smartphones for mobile shopping, payments or banking but many of those who do are tapping, scanning and buying. Most research around … Read the whole story
Google buried the lead in its second quarter earnings story Thursday, casually mentioning to analysts and investors that its long-time sales chief, Chief Business … Read the whole story
COMMENTARYWhether Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr will pay off remains to be seen. But in the year or so since it purchased the … Read the whole story
Twitter is ramping up its ecommerce efforts with the acquisition of CardSpring. Founded in 2011, CardSpring is a payments infrastructure start-up that helps merchants … Read the whole story
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After years of talking about distributors who very cleverly built up huge audiences without seeming to own any content, such as Spotify and YouTube, … Read the whole story
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Social trend of the week: clicking on "Buy" buttons. While it's tempting to just leave it at that, I suppose people who read this … Read the whole story
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In June 2003, Google AdSense was launched to help Web site owners earn money from content-related text ads. Google quickly changed to display ads … Read the whole story
