A newsletter from law firm Morrison & Foerster includes a fun infographic on the history of social media from the 1978 launch of the first BBBsthats bulletin board system, for all of you kiddosto Twitters five-year birthday last July.
Mobile technology is making TV more social.
Today wireless entertainment application GetGlue launched a service that for the first time allows subscribers of paid TV provider DirecTV to check in through the app and share what theyre watching with friends on their TV screen.
Extract from an Economic Times article by Manish Kanchan, Managing Director of SAGE Capital.Very often we see entrepreneurs consulting with well wishers, old-time chartered accountants or their loyal CFOs during the deal-making process. Usually this is the first time anybody is dealing with private equity transactions and are therefore completely out of their depths. Sometimes, they are also
The Internet is a competitive space. Since people turn to the Internet to find information about pretty much everything, marketers are trying their best to make a name for themselves online. It isnt easy, and while its hard enough to even establish an online presence in the first place, its even harder to maintain a [...]
(I’m in Las Vegas this week attending Tibco’s user conference. Tibco is a founding sponsor of SVW and has been a strong supporter of my work for many years.)
Apple has just sent outaninvite to its October 4 event, where the company says it will be talking about you guessed it the iPhone. Apple will be hosting the event on its Cupertino campus in Silicon Valley, even though formajor launchesthe tech giantusually takes its show up the road to San Francisco.
My son told me about a breakthrough ad strategy he stumbled upon for his affiliate businesses: reduce your Google AdWords spend, yes, you drop down from #1 in the Google advertising order to #3 or so, but the conversion rate is still good and it’s costing a lot less.
The end may be nigh for the iPhone speaker dock. Last September, Apple introduced AirPlay, a feature that allows you to stream content to specially enabled televisions and speakers. That means you may never again have to park your iPod or iPhone in a dock to play music.
(A photo from a Business Insider story.)