Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts

Friday, July 13, 2012

HP, Lenovo, Acer Lead Slowing PC Market - as well as my own blog posts synopsis

The world of tech is always moving. Let's take a look at which companies have been making news.

In our first little group, why don't we check out the websites taking about Starbucks and Canada:
- Starbucks For Android Brings Mobile Payments To Canada & U.K., Now Supports PayPal from techcrunch.com
- Now Android Users Can Pay For Their Starbucks With PayPal from www.webpronews.com

Small business has been getting a lot of press as well:
- Small Businesses Increasingly Turn To Small Banks For Loans: Report from www.huffingtonpost.com
- Small Business Optimism Slides in June: NFIB from www.eweek.com

Next on the list are Market share and United States.
- HP, Lenovo, Acer Inc. Lead Slowing PC Market - "Lenovos shipment growth continued to exceed the worldwide average, narrowing the market share gap with HPLenovos worldwide market share now stands at 14.7 percent, a nearly 15 percent increase compared with the second quarter of 2011" - said www.eweek.com
- Google, Bing Hit All-Time Highs In June Search Market Share [comScore] - searchengineland.com

Anything else? Well, DirecTV and MTV were in the media a fair bit:
- Viacom Fires Back at DirecTV With VH1 Style Pop-Up Video - "DirecTV customers lost access to Viacom channels such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and more on Tuesday at midnight ET after the two media giants couldn't reach a deal on programming fees" - said mashable.com
- DirecTV Spat Results In Takedown Of Full-Length Viacom Shows For Everyone Online - techcrunch.com









Friday, June 8, 2012

Facebook Wants to Welcome Kids Under Age 13 to Social Network - as well as my very own links synopsis

Technology businesses are forever making news - fortunately for me because this is a technology blog. Who are we checking out now?

In our first little group, let's have a look at the websites taking about Google and Revenue:
- Google Introduces Offline Maps For Mobile, Claims A Billion Users Globally For Maps, Earth from feeds.searchengineland.com
- Google Announces Massively Improved 3D Views For Google Earth, StreetView Backpacks & Offline Maps For Mobile from feedproxy.google.com
- Google Ups Ad Rotation Period to 90 Days, Offers Opt Out from searchenginewatch.com





What else do we have? Well, there's Facebook and iOS:
- Facebook Wants to Welcome Kids Under Age 13 to Social Network from searchenginewatch.com
- Party Rockin' On Facebook: Disrupt Winner Shaker Hits North America With Club 53 Launch from feedproxy.google.com
- Facebook Children from feeds09.technorati.com



Twitter and Milwaukee, WI were brought up quite a bit too:
- Scott Walker Death Threats Flood In On Twitter - "Death threats actually started to roll in on Twitter!" - said www.webpronews.com
- Twitter User Insights for Marketers [Study] - searchenginewatch.com

To finish up we should take a look at Canada and United States
- Fab Expands To Its 20th Country: Canada; Now On Track To $140M In Sales By Year-End - "Fab.com's international expansion continues, and this morning, the social shopping site is arriving in its 20th market: Canada" - said feedproxy.google.com
- Google Flight Search Comes To Canada - www.webpronews.com