Alex Barankevych | Marketing. Technology.
At the end of each year, Apple recognizes the most noteworthy new apps and games and n I tell AppStore. This year’s list includes photography apps, communication apps, entertainment apps, and more. Periscope, the popular livestreaming app that Twitter acquired…
Interesting case study in Wall Street Journal on use of social media by Dell to generate new business. According to the article Dell estimated that it had generated $6.5 million of business through Twitter activities alone. That would be nice…
Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire Skype, which revolutionized telephone calls over the Internet, for $8.5 billion, including the assumption of debt, according to people involved in the transaction. A deal is expected to be announced on Tuesday morning,…
Here is a fun graphic that tells the tale about social media, created by Angela Nielsen, of One Lily Creative Agency, a full-service web and print design company. Angela blogs, “Almost every day I talk with business owners who think…
Research In Motion’s PlayBook hit stores April 19 and is the first tablet computer targeted at business users. And yet, surprisingly, RIM shares fell by 10 per cent or so several weeks earlier following the combined announcement of a 32-per-cent…
Domain registration company GoDaddy came under heavy criticism from animal rights activists after its CEO Bob Parsons posted a video online where he hunts elephants in Zimbabwe. Parsons defends himself by saying that he only hunted those species that they…
Every computer science kid these days seems to have some kind of ‘app idea’. I’m sure you have one too. But how do you know if your idea is going to fly? Is there any way of trying to idea…
Following pressure from the US Government, Canada is preparing to ram through a revamped copyright bill that will have disastrous consequences for consumers. The Government is hereby ignoring the public consultation held last year, where many Canadians spoke out against…
Another lecture from the series on electronic marketing. John Blackmore, manager, Web & Content (Cognos SW) & Web Best Practices (IBM SWG) at IBM talked about creating sales funnels online.
Digital media executives may still complain the Internet hasn’t really lived up to its marketing potential — but one survey says users are responding more positively to a number of Internet media formats, according to MediaPost.
