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Google Finance Goes Off Radar
Google’s allowed many of its products and services to grow old and moldy, and one of the most high-profile examples of this…
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Mobile Social Networking Still Has Bluepulse
Mobile social networking is practically nonexistent in day-to-day life. This means (a) it’s a dead end or (b) there’s a lot of room for expansion. As it gives Bluepulse $6 million in funding, VantagePoint Venture Partners appears to be betting on (b).
YouTube Makes Music Royalty Deal
The MCPS-PRS Alliance is a UK organization with over 50,000 members; the organization exists to deliver royalties to its members, who are mainly music writers, composers and publishers. And according to a new deal, some of those royalties will come from YouTube.
Here’s Your 15 Minutes And Your DMCA Notice
It didn't take long for user-generated content to translate to user-generated profit. But as the giants have their weird litigious and incestuous thing going on both in the courtroom and in the boardroom, YouTube users aren't just getting the shaft, they're getting mud kicked in their faces.
Americans Blogging Habits
Eight out of 10 Americans know what a blog is and close to half have visited blogs, according to a survey from Synovate/Marketing Daily.
Listening to Customers, Not “Bowing to Pressure”
From a business standpoint, one of the critical advantages social media bring to the table is the ability to tap into what important segments of the population are thinking. GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, for example, is on the record claiming that the Fastlane blog has provided him with better intelligence than any traditional form of market research.
