The online rivalry between Facebook and Google has taken a bit of a twist, with news out that Facebook hired a PR firm, Burson-Marsteller to bring to light negative information about Social Circle, a Google service that collects and uses data about people.
You can read more over at stuff.co.nz
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Amber MacArthur, social media expert and author of Power Friending: Demystifying Social Media to Grow Your Business offers some great advice on how you can use social media to promote your business.
Facebook, Twitter & Youtube are available free to all businesses, but are often not utilised as well as they could be. Amber explains how to best use these.
You can read these tips over at stuff.co.nz
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Stuff.co.nz reports today that sales of the PC worldwide have considerably slowed due to the emergence of tablet devices such as the iPad and technology developments in game consoles. Especially mini notebooks, which seem to have been hit the hardest with competition from the tablets.
Growth in PC sales worldwide was forecast at 4.8 percent but instead grew by only 3.1 percent.
Winners in the stats are Lenovo and Toshiba, which posted the most improved growth in the fourth quarter of 2010. Lenovo’s worldwide market share grew 21.4 per cent while Toshiba’s was up 12.1 per cent.
Tags: iPad, PC, tablet
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Microsoft has bravely decided to go where Google and Facebook have tread before….
Microsoft’s bing.com social networking site also searches other websites including Twitter and Facebook for users’ information, thereby increasing the amount of potentially private information which is available about a user.
It has been careful to blog, however, that “For non-fan pages, we only surface popular shared links from Facebook users in the aggregate form, and only from users who have set their status updates to be shared with ‘everyone.’ No names or photos, or even the text in the update associated with the link are published — just the link in aggregate.”
To see the full article, click here.
Tags: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, privacy
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