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Google Places: Reviews And Ratings Are A Few Clicks Away

Jerry — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:29:43 +0000

Charmaine Google Places recently enabled its users to easily access all content related to their location: ratings and reviews of those particular places. When users visit their Google Places profile, they will see a link where they can find all their ratings and reviews. The feed is private by default, [...]

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A Unique Earth Day Celebration

Jerry — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:47:39 +0000

Rebecca This year, Google is all about celebrating Earth Day in new and interesting ways. Not only do they have a new interactive homepage doodle, but Google offices worldwide are hosting special Earth Day events. This includes an environmental fair for loyal Google users at the Mountain View, California headquarters, [...]

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What Paywall? New York Times Clears 100,000 Online Subscribers

Jerry — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:10:53 +0000

Eric Once seen as the angel of death for the online business of the New York Times, the recently launched paywall has officially seen revenue from over 100,000 paying subscribers. At first glance, this is fairly promising. What remains to be seen; however, are the effects of time. First of [...]

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Please Touch Your Order: The Tablet That Might Cost Your Waiter Their Job

Jerry — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:58:46 +0000

Eric According to some, the iPad might eventually be solely responsible for the downfall of America. Whether contributing to the trade deficit with every sale or, as so poignantly pointed out by Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr, or destroying the publishing industry and costing Americans their jobs, the device is seemingly [...]

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Google Earth Introduces Photo Viewing with a Single Key

Jerry — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:44:28 +0000

Eric Remember when dreaming of exotic and far off lands was the stuff of imagination? If you wanted a glimpse into the world beyond your own walls you had to look in a glossy travel magazine or, if you were lucky, you knew someone who had recently traveled. It was [...]

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New Addition to the Google Earth and Google Maps Enterprise

Jerry — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:02:24 +0000

Eva Google Earth and Google Maps are two ways for users from all over the world to access accurate data and view the world as it is right now. They are fast, functional and user friendly to ensure everyone, young and old has the opportunity to learn and enjoy from [...]

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AT&T Announces a Mobile Advertising SDK

Jerry — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:57:10 +0000

Eva The telecommunications giant AT&T has announced a new software development kit in an attempt to expand the use of local advertisements within the mobile world. With over 170 million local searchers each month within their own network and the way they connect advertisers to big networks like Bing and [...]

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eBay Acquires WHERE for Over $100 Million

Jerry — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:41:38 +0000

Eva eBay has purchased the Boston-based local discovery service WHERE for what sources say could be as much as $135 million. The acquisition of WHERE provides a site that could potentially rival the ever popular Yelp.com and an array of other beneficial sectors from the WHERE mobile application to their [...]

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eBay’s Goal With Its New Baby Where

Jerry — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:03:25 +0000

Toddy Recap of a recent PayPal blog post: Brick and mortar stores and those online are definitely overlapping with enterprises like WHERE. A customer gets a lot of choices standing in a retail store accessing information with internet capability and QR codes on their mobile phone, and at the same time [...]

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Ideas Regarding Recent Groupon and eBay Hook-ups

Jerry — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:55:16 +0000

Toddy When Groupon acquired Pelago-Whrrl recently, it was not uncommon for some to be reminded of eBay taking ownership of Where. Larger enterprises stepping into “hyper-local” easily comes to mind as the theme shared by these two events. But, maybe not. There is no doubt that expertise was an incentive [...]

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