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Skanz Goes to Extreme Heights to Recast Emerging Bar Code Technology as Consumer Socialprint(TM)
Largest. QR Code. Ever. But Why?
Although the use of QR codes by marketers is growing rapidly, studies have shown that consumer awareness remains low. Skanz, a new social networking platform, aims to change that by recasting QR codes as something millions of consumers spend billions of hours cultivating, caring for and sharing every day — their favorite social media and personal contact information, now conveniently stored in their own unique Socialprint(TM).
LinkedIn Acquires Social CRM Company Connected
LinkedIn has acquired Connected, a contact management start-up, the companies announced today, raising possibilities for a future LinkedIn CRM service.
How do LinkedIn Advertisements Work?
If your company is in business to sell to other businesses, LinkedIn is arguably a much better platform than others for targeted advertising to individuals.
Silverpop Marries Foursquare to Email
The move allows Silverpop to offer marketing services related to Foursquare and Facebook Places for the first time. The Atlanta-based firm told ClickZ News that email and check-ins can go hand in hand, helping grow opt-in lists and Foursquare followers ..
Global Social Network Advertising Market to Reach US$14.8 Billion by 2017 …
Rapid increase in social media activities in the recent years has driven advertisers to take up social ads. The economic downturn and subsequent loss of jobs proved to be favorable factors for the social network ads market, globally, as more and more …
How To Get Your Social Networking Strategy Going
Do you know how to take advantage of all the social media tools and sites out there today? Social media isn’t just for high schol or college kids.
Kansas Facebook user files a cookie lawsuit
By Kate O’Flaherty A KANSAS Facebook user has filed a federal lawsuit against the people database, saying that it violated wiretap laws by using a tracking cookie that records web browsing history after logging off the social network.
Ice Cream Sandwich Launch Delayed
Google and Samsung mysteriously pulled the plug Friday on the expected release of a new version of the Android operating system code named Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).
Chromebook: ‘Father of Google Apps’ Raises Second Child
It was 2004, and Sheth was interviewing for a job with Google’s enterprise division. If you could call it that. At the time, the division spanned all of 25 employees and one lonely product: the Google Search Appliance. Google had stuffed its famous …
