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Facebook to debut on stock market in May

Written on March 31st, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Facebook will make its stock market debut in May with a record-setting initial public offering of shares, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The world’s leading online ...
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Purchase Recommendations From Blogs Highly Influential to Women

Written on March 26th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
  61% of women who are active blog users say they have made a purchase based on a recommendation from a blog, a proportion that rises to 87% among BlogHer ...
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Social Networks Positively Impact Entertainment Decisions

Written on March 26th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
  Social network users are 27.3% more likely to say that the sites are important for making entertainment-related decisions than not (56% vs. 44%), according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR) ...
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Coke’s social media ‘story’ fizzles out

Written on March 2nd, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Coca-Cola is the latest company to have a social media marketing attempt go wrong. The company invited fans to post one-word comments in addition to previous posts on the company’s ...
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UK legal claims served via Facebook

Written on February 22nd, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Legal authorities say a judge at England’s High Court has allowed lawyers to log on to Facebook to serve legal claims. The Judicial Office for England and Wales said Justice ...
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Web privacy tools to warn of internet tracking cookies

Written on February 18th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Internet users will receive a warning if sites do not respect their privacy thanks to new tools being developed by the web’s standards setting body. The World Wide Web Consortium ...
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Microsoft slams new Google policy

Written on February 3rd, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Microsoft has taken out full-page newspaper adverts to criticise changes to Google’s policies. Google has touted the changes it announced last week as a simplification of detailed but obtuse policies ...
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Google reveals action over Mosley

Written on January 27th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley’s sex life from its search results index, Britain’s Leveson Inquiry on press standards has heard. ...
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Facebook forces users to change profiles

Written on January 27th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find. Timeline is ...
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‘Downturn Shoppers’ Look to Digital for Savings

Written on January 25th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Price-conscious consumers do more online research, download coupons and compare prices in-store via smartphones Despite some bright spots on the economic horizon, shopping remains more of a battle than a ...
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