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Let’s Put it in Perspective – Market Capitalisation
I have always found it interesting to follow certain technology companies on the stock markets, but now that Facebook is preparing for IPO this just got a whole lot more interesting. I also like to keep tab on our large Australian companies, not so tech related. How do these Rank? Rank Company Market Cap (billions […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media – Viral Expansion [VIDEO]
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This is a great video on how viral expansion of Social Media sites can generate huge money for the respective companies and shareholders. If you have a website these days, with lots of users coming back time and time again, just the user numbers alone (ie data) make this a valuable web property.
Read More | ShareFoursquare raises another $50 million VC funding
Geolocation Mobile App – Foursquare recently hit 10 million users worldwide and is signing deals with major companies who want to integrate with Foursquare on an almost weekly basis. Foursquare has now raised another $50 Million USD from tech venture capitalists; Andreessen-Horowitz, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Union Square Ventures, as well as Spark Capital. Rougly 1 […]
Read More | ShareTwitVid launched SocialAds, buy Followers and Retweets
Twitter Video hosting service, TwitVid, has recently created and launched a new advertising platform called SocialAds. The purpose of this new advertising platform with SocialAds is rather straightforward – to get the advertiser more Twitter followers of your Twitter account and also more retweets of your content. The service is initially being aimed and brands […]
Read More | ShareFree Social Media Marketing Campaign by SocialMediaNews.com.au
The team at SocialMediaNews.com.au is proud to announce an additional new service offering being launched – Free Social Media Marketing Campaigns for Australian business, organisations, companies, government department, educational institutions, charities, not-for-profits and so on. The service is also available for select international businesses. If you don’t know where to start or don’t have the […]
Read More | ShareGoogle acquires ITA Software for $700million USD, enhancing Travel Search
Google has purchased ITA Software (www.itasoftware.com), a company known for its airfare search and pricing system QPX. The ITA Software is used by many US and international airlines. The acquisition was done in $700 million USD, cash. No stock purchase this time from Google. This is an area Google feels they have some ground to […]
Read More | ShareWindows 7 sales very strong, 150 million so far, 7 every second
Microsoft has spent considerable time developing their new operating System Windows 7 and it looks like they are reaping the rewards already. Windows 7 was launched in October 2009 and has sold 150 million copies so far – that is 7 every second. A lot of these sales are going to enterprises whom did not […]
Read More | ShareWhat companies are the most social? Infograph
A recent study – the NetProspex Social 50 looks at the social media/network usage of employees, and ranks the top 50 organisations overall social media activity. A range of companies are analysed including: Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, eBay, Amazon, Google, IBM, Sun, Dell, Oracle, CISCO, HP, Intel, Twitter, Nike, Coca Cola, Kodak plus many others. […]
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