Tag Archives: Social Media
Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1 Billion: How Android made it Possible
Just when you thought the backlash over Instagram opening its doors to Android users had already set the Twitterverse alight, another bombshell dropped on an unsuspecting public early Monday afternoon. Instagram, the incredible popular (and until recently iOS exclusive) photo sharing service and social network in one, was purchased by Facebook in a stunning $1 [...]
We’re attending SES New York 2012!
Co-Founder and COO of Optimum7, Duran Inci, is attending SES New York 2012 this week. SES New York is held at The Hilton, New York from March 19-23rd. The conference is part of a series of conferences held by SES Conference & Expo, the leading global event series in the Internet marketing industry for the [...]
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Pros and Cons of Using Pinterest for Online Marketing
So, I stumbled across an article last week in The Washington Post titled Addicted to a Web site called Pinterest: Digital crack for women. The title alone was enough to grab my attention. My colleagues then suggested that I write an article on Pinterest and Photoshop an image of myself with a crack pipe and [...]
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Social Media Effects Riots in UK
It is only in 2011 that various platforms of social media could instigate, perpetuate, and eventually clean up a violent riot. London, and the UK in general, has received its fair share of riots over the past few hundred years, but it was not until this recent spat of violence in cities such as Gloucester, [...]
Branding with Social Media
If you’re currently running a business I’m sure that by this point you have been advised that social media is the place to be for promoting. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube are your best friends for free and potentially effective advertisement. Thing is, in order for these social media outlets to be as effective as [...]
Online Retail Not Affected By Social Media
There has been recent report released proving shocking evidence that social media may have little to no affect on online retail purchases. This comes as a surprise to many retailers who have recently been trained to believe that in terms of successful online marketing, social media is key. You hear it in every seminar and [...]
Social Networks Losing Appeal?
Something is happening with social networks that doesn’t look too promising. It appears that as of late social networks have begin to hit a sort of plateau. In the grand scheme of things it seems that those who would join social networks have joined already and there is no new wave on people looking to [...]
Students Battle Internet Addiction
The University of Maryland did a study to prove what most of us already know: teenagers are hooked to the internet and their tech devices. The study was conducted by the International Center for Media and Public Affairs and included 2,000 participants. The participants were all students at colleges and universities all over the world. [...]
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Social Media Reconnects Quake Victims
We have been talking more and more lately about the power of social media as a means to connect and inform. Lately, social media has taken on a life of its own that has some of use wondering how we managed to live without it for so long. It’s almost like that magnitude of the [...]
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