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Business

Google’s Top 10 Search Advertisers (Chart)

This is something I’ve never seen before.  A list of Google’s top 10 advertisers, ranked by their click spend or how much they spend per year on keywords that drive clicks. Check out the chart below: It’s amazing to think how staggering the number of keywords are that ecommerce sites like Amazon must be spending […]

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Business Tablets

Google Buys PushLife To Port Your iTunes Library To Android Smartphones

PushLife has just been acquired by Google for a reported $25 million. Founded by a former RIM (Blackberry) development executive Ray Reddy, PushLife allowed users to port their iTunes library to non-Apple phones. The interest from Google is obvious, let’s port your iTunes library to Android smartphones and tablets. PushLife announced via it’s website that […]

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Business Facebook

Is Google Scared of Facebook?

In a move that is reflective only of fear more than vision, Google’s new CEO Larry Page issued some direction – or actually some threats – via his new role. Basically, he told Google employees that their bonuses will be based solely on the effectiveness of how well they integrate “social’ability” into Google products. So […]

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Business

Radius Marketing, A Local Business Gold Mine

To this day, I’m amazed at how many local businesses and organizations I speak with that are unaware of the basic concept of radius marketing. Radius marketing, although not a product or platform, is more of a strategy implemented through the use of existing marketing platforms like Google Adwords and Facebook pay per click. Let’s […]

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Android iPhone

iPhone 5 Release Date Coming Late June?

According to ETNews.com, a Korean news site, the iPhone 5 is scheduled to be released by Apple sometime during the last week of June.  This speculation comes from ETnews’ confirmation that Korean telecom providers SK Telecom and KT will be one of the first carriers to offer the new iPhone 5. I’ve wrote previously about […]

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Technology

Google Chooses Kansas City as Speedy Fiber-Optic Cable Community

Remember Google’s announcement last year that it would be choosing one community to participate in its effort to provide Internet 100 times faster than the average broadband speed?  The speculation back then was that Topeka, Kansas would get the Google broadband boost. Well, they didn’t forget about that project. Google’s Milo Medin, Vice President of […]

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Facebook Technology

Coming Soon: ‘Google +1’ Button For Your Websites?

Google +1 is a new way for Google to integrate a more social relevance score into the search results that you see.  The Google +1 button is still new, and currently only available via Google Experiment. But with the Google +1, you’ll be able to vote on search results and give a sort of “thumbs […]