To prevent 2009 from becoming the “Year of the Phish” in Asia Pacific (as opposed to the Year of the Ox), SAS, the leader in business analytics, has launched innovative new software to fight fraud, but also to better understand customer sentiment. SAS® Social Network Analysis and SAS’ ...

Marketers today demand solutions that allow them to move quickly to take advantage of immediate business opportunities, continually test and optimize their landing pages, and stay within budget. Businesses require easy-to-use tools in order to rapidly build landing pages that can maxim...

Social software technologies are exposing the holes in corporate communication and collaboration and at times filling them before the enterprise can fully grasp and control the flow. In a new study released this week, user-experience research firm Nielsen Norman Group found that many o...

Today INQ Mobile took the next step in its mission to bring easy-to-use mobile internet to the mass market with the launch of two new 3G Social Mobiles complete with internet-based Twitter and media sync capabilities. The new phones offer high-spec functionality without the hefty price...

After going through hundreds of applicants and conducting a battery of tests and evaluations topseos, the independent authority on search, has completed their list for the month of August. The list consists of the best of the best when it comes to SEO and topseos.com has collected the ...

Online Banking Solutions (OBS), a provider of next-generation cash management and business banking revenue-generating solutions for banks, announced the availability of its new Messenger Financial Center, a Web 2.0 cash management and business banking portal based on its latest version...

Microsoft’s long pursuit of Yahoo has finally culminated in a 10-year deal. It’s not the deal people expected, which is why Yahoo stock took a 12% fall in the hours after the companies laid it out Wednesday. Yahoo is going to sell search ads for the both of them. It’s going to use Micr...

Google sold back its 5% stake in AOL for $283 million to Time Warner, a loss of better than $700 million, which Google wrote off in January. According to Reuters the numbers value AOL at $5.7 billion. AOL is supposed to spin out later this year. Google bought the position in 2005 for a...

SHIFT Communications and Whitley Media today transformed static Twitter profile pages into powerful personal branding tools with the launch of www.clickablenow.com Until today, the background pages on Twitter profiles were largely useless from a marketing standpoint, since urls, email...

Email Data Source, Inc., the email marketing industry’s original source for email competitive intelligence, has announced that Twitter has officially become the most linked to social media outlet in email marketing campaigns. “In the data Email Data Source has been tracking, there ...

With Yahoo shares down better than 15% in the two trading days since it climbed into bed with Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the cat who ate the canary and maybe forgot there for a moment that he didn’t buy the company, told Microsoft’s annual analyst meeting Thursday that “It...

Social Media Ventures announced a new online banner promotion for its social networking site for pet enthusiasts, PetsPlaces.com (www.petsplaces.com). A banner advertising PetsPlaces.com will be featured on approximately two hundred active web portals in the United States, which are ho...

The answer is yes, suprememly well in terms of promoting your site rather than improving your website ranking in Google. The question is, where you syndicate your articles to, and in turn, which news and press outlets pick those articles up for maximum exposure, and also if those artic...

Akamai Technologies, Inc., and Alvenda have announced that they delivered the industry’s first online interactive ecommerce-enabled advertising campaign for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM. Akamai was chosen to accelerate performance of the Shoplets™ (shop-able advertisements) application, improve r...

Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sal...

Business Wire’s free award-winning webinar series continues with an investor relations twist, answering the perplexing question July 30, “Press Releases, Public Companies and Social Media—What to Do?” The webinar joins the series of presentations on press release tips and how-tos. ...

The future of e-commerce is "social commerce" as online shoppers, particularly younger generations, are heavily influenced by social media and Web 2.0 technologies, according to a new "Future of Commerce" report from Hill & Knowlton. "Online retailing is being profoundly impacted b...

Genius.com announced the world's first URL shortener specifically designed to track both structured marketing campaigns and ad hoc social media "conversations." The easy-to-use Genius URL shortener ("GURL(TM)" for short) enables any member of a Genius customer organization to include t...

New Zealand’s Postal Services Group (PSG), a business inside New Zealand Post Group that connects businesses and the community through mail and online services, is moving from Microsoft to Google Apps, security, compliance and web filtering. PSG has signed a three-year agreement with F...

No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a reasonable understanding of the very basics. SYS-CON's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind, It is a one-day, fully immersive deep-dive into th...

"You CAN Measure Social Media: True Tales from the Social Media Measurement Trenches" is the topic of a Web Seminar from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 19, in Royal Oak. Host is the Detroit chapter of the International Association of Business Communications (IABC Detroit). Pre...

Jahia (www.jahia.com), the first Web Content Integration software to combine all business, collaborative and social application portals into one simple user interface, today announced the expansion of its US headquarters in Washington, DC to serve North American clients. Two years ...

A search and online advertising deal between Yahoo and Microsoft is imminent - unless of course it's blown off course again, according to Yahoo know-it-all All Things Digital, the Dow Jones blog. Under the circumstances blogger Kara Swisher isn't guaranteeing a deal will happen thou...

Social networking has become a mainstream online activity among all age groups, with 80 percent of the total U.K. online population having visited a site in the category in May. Penetration was highest amongst 25-34 year old Internet users, 89 percent of whom visited the category durin...

Social sites have grown significantly in recent months and years. Users are becoming more sophisticated in the way they interact with companies. In true Web 2.0 fashion the dialog between companies and users is becoming more frequent. Customers share their experience with their entire ...

DisplaySearch figures netbooks will represent 20% of the worldwide notebook market this year based on projections that close to 33 million of the little things will sell, up almost 100%. According to its numbers traditional notebook sales will only be up this year in China, Latin Ameri...

IDC thought PC units were going to dive 6.3% worldwide in the June quarter. Turns out they were only down 3.1%. Revenues, when those numbers come out, will be another matter because the consumer, who has single-handedly kept the pot simmering without any help from his corporate counter...

Sam Gross is Vice President of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys Corporation, where he leads the vision, strategy, technology development and implementation for Unisys innovative global IT outsourcing solutions. He is a recognized industry expert and thought leader in business ...

Covario announced a new, economics-based solution for managing online presence that challenges the traditional agency model. With its launch of D3 -- Data Driven Decisions for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Covario has identified an automation-driven solution that dramatically reduc...

I moderated a Cisco panel last week at Cisco Live! and it was readily apparent that enterprise cloud still required plenty of work from vendors and enterprise IT. No one was ready to endorse either a centralized or decentralized architecture (a move to the powerful intercloud); perhap...

In tribute to the vacuum-sealed lid Apple keeps on scuttlebutt about upcoming products, US pundits have been reduced to quoting a story printed in Mandarin by the China Times saying that Taiwan companies are making a 9.7-inch diagonal touchscreen netbook for Apple to sell this October ...

Ulitzer is a brand new social media tool for creating, delivering, and consuming content on the Web. Anyone can create topics, magazines, and subject-based portals on Ulitzer, pre-populate them with over one million articles available, and launch a new Ulitzer topic in minutes.

Facebook’s value has dropped $3.5 billion since May. Russian investment house Digital Sky Technologies, which put $200 million in the social networking outfit two months ago in exchange for preferred shares, now wants to buy $100 million worth of common stock from current and former em...

M&A activity slowed significantly throughout the Information Industry in the 1st Half of 2009, as the total number of announced transactions fell by 29% and aggregate value dropped by 45%, compared with the same period in 2008. These trends indicate that while desire to do deals has be...

'Will Ulitzer and SocialYell Dominate News Content on The Web (Eventually)?' is the blog title of Gartner's Anthony Bradley. In his blog entry, Bradley writes: "Hype around Ulitzer.com (the social-journalism news magazine site) is climbing. At one point they were offering authors 200% ...

Gossip around the industry’s virtual water cooler says Dell may bring out a pocket-sized Android-based touch-screen MID this half if it doesn’t kill or delay the thing first. The widget is supposed to play music and video and may or may not have a cell phone. Dell’s reportedly developi...

Cisco is threatening to elbow into the $60 billion Office space with a WebEx-based collaboration service that lets business users create and share documents, perhaps by linking up with Zoho or Google Apps.

Most of us are unaware of the fact that Google toolbar Page Rank (PR) varies from Google actual (internal) Page Rank. Within Google's actual databases, each of your pages is stored and does have some form of numerical Page Rank calculated value. This is quite likely to differ from the ...

Netscape wunderkind Marc Andreessen, now about to turn a demographically middle-aged 38, has officially turned venture capitalist, a counter-culture move since the dot.com bust trashed the sport.

Last January I announced that the tagline of "Beta" for software and web development was approaching its last days as a marketing fad. In that post I stated the problem with the term "beta" with in a broader product release is that most users don't draw a distinction between a beta or ...