About 576 days ago Internet and Online Business | Video

Netflix CEO Emphasizes Video Stream for the Future

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings would like us to stop talking about the past, and start looking to the future. If you believe what he writes in his shareholder letter, which was published yesterday, Netflix’s future seems well laid out. READ MORE »

About 576 days ago Apps | Business Software | Internet and Online Business | Online Marketing

Google Introduces Bid-Per-Call in AdWords

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Over the next few weeks Google will be rolling out the ability for advertisers to bid for phone calls—in addition to bidding for clicks—when they show Google search ads on computers and tablets. READ MORE »

About 576 days ago Tablets and eReaders | Video

Analyst: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Is the iPod of Video

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Not only is Dan Rayburn from StreamingMediaBlog predicting that the Kindle Fire is going to sell like crazy, he thinks Amazon is going to do something even Apple couldn’t do—jump-start the streaming media industry, resulting in the growth of video-related content consumption. That growth, he says, is going to help not only content owners but also all of the vendors who help those content owners create, ingest, transcode, store, manage, protect, monetize, distribute and track their content. READ MORE »

About 576 days ago Apps | Business Software | Internet and Online Business

Grovo Launches Redesigned Internet Training Platform

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Grovo, an Internet education and training platform that helps people discover and learn to use Web sites faster than fumbling around on them on their own, just launched a redesigned site. Want to figure out how to use Twitter for your business, or make the most of Google Analytics? There are Grovo tutorials that cover those topics, plus loads of others. Grovo’s content library currently features over 1,000 lessons and provides education for nearly 100 leading sites. READ MORE »

About 576 days ago E-Commerce | Innovation | Internet and Online Business

OpenSky Raises $30 Million Around ‘Experts’

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OpenSky, an e-commerce site on which users receive product recommendations from celebrities, cognoscenti, and gurus of all brands, has raised $30 million. The company is six months old, has offices on the West Coast and in Nashville, and has now raised a total of $49 million over three funding rounds. READ MORE »

About 576 days ago Apps | Business Software | Hardware

Wal-Mart to Sell Square Payment Devices

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Square, the mobile-payment technology, may soon be available at Wal-Mart stores nationwide, giving the company, which was founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, access to new markets. Square Inc. provides the mobile credit card reader and other technology necessary to make credit card payments via mobile devices. READ MORE »

About 577 days ago Internet and Online Business

Why Google Won’t Make a Good Business Partner

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If you’re using more and more Google products in your business, keep in mind the company’s history of putting consumers before business customers. READ MORE »

About 577 days ago E-Commerce | Internet and Online Business | Location-based services

Deals Site BuyWithMe Lays off Most of Staff

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BuyWithMe has discovered that acquisition as a growth strategy does not always work. The No. 3 daily deals site behind Groupon and Living Social has laid off the bulk of its staff in what is described as a “last ditch effort” to sell the company, according to the firm’s former marketing director Ian Boschen. READ MORE »

About 577 days ago Apps | Business Accounting Software | Business Software | Cloud Computing

Profitably Does the Math for Your Business Plan

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A good business plan sells your company to the world and can help you get financing, arrange strategic alliances and attract employees. But creating a comprehensive and useful one means including a healthy amount of financial forecasts. While you could use Excel or Google Docs to create nice spreadsheets, graphs and charts, Profitably is a free cloud-based tool that can quickly display how you plan to grow things like revenue, profits and customers, chart out what tools you’ll use to do it, as well as lay out what your finances will look like in the future. READ MORE »

About 577 days ago Apps | Blogging and Social Media | Business Software | E-Commerce | Internet and Online Business | Online Marketing

TicketLeap: Event Promotion That Runs on Mobile, Social

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If you have an event to promote there are several pretty compelling reasons why you should check out TicketLeap, which can handle even the smallest venues but also competes with ticketing titans like TicketMaster. First, it’s optimized for mobile so event organizers can use free iOS and Android apps to to manage an entire onsite operation directly from their smart devices — completely eliminating the need for printed paper tickets.  READ MORE »