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Hertz hires Stickyeyes for international SEO strategy – The Drum
May 16th
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Hertz hires Stickyeyes for international SEO strategy
The Drum Following an initial 12-way pitch process, the Leeds-based agency will first be tasked with concentrating on markets in the UK, France and Germany – although it is understood that this remit will grow in geography. Glen Conybeare, chief commercial … |
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Leading Medical and Dental Website Design Firm, ProSites, Hires New SEO … – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Apr 22nd
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Leading Medical and Dental Website Design Firm, ProSites, Hires New SEO …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) ProSites today announced that Omaro Ailoch has been named SEO Manager. In his new role, Ailoch will be responsible for managing and maximizing the effectiveness of the firm's SEO services to continuously improve organic search rankings for ProSites … |
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Leading Medical and Dental Website Design Firm, ProSites, Hires New SEO … – PR Web (press release)
Apr 22nd
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Leading Medical and Dental Website Design Firm, ProSites, Hires New SEO …
PR Web (press release) ProSites today announced that Omaro Ailoch has been named SEO Manager. In his new role, Ailoch will be responsible for managing and maximizing the effectiveness of the firm's SEO services to continuously improve organic search rankings for ProSites … |
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Comparethemarket hires iCrossing for SEO – CampaignLive
Apr 2nd
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Comparethemarket hires iCrossing for SEO
CampaignLive The agency was appointed to the business after a competitive pitch and has been given a brief to integrate the brand's SEO activity with its wider marketing communications strategy. Comparethemarket.com's relationships with VCCP, its ad agency, and … |
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Google Disses Motorola Products – And Hires Guy Kawasaki
Mar 1st
Google’s short-term goals for its Motorola smartphone division are two-fold: clear the rubble on the runway and build for the future.
When it comes to runway, Google is still dealing with the product pipeline that it inherited from Motorola when the acquisition received final approval by regulatory bodies way back in February 2012. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference this week, Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said Google still has to deal with 18 months of product pipeline that it has to “drain right now.”
That product pipeline was on full display in September when the latest Droid Razr devices were released. The reaction to the Droid Razr HD, Razr Maxx HD and the Razr M was a universal yawn, with all three devices seen as no more than iterative updates to the aging Razr series as Google continues to liquidate Motorola’s existing design and assets.
(See also The New Motoroloa: Google’s Hardware Division Steps Into The Future.)
Even the next new smartphones that will soon come out of Motorola are not anything to write home about. Pichette seems well aware of that fact, calling them, “not really to the standards that what Google would say is ‘wow’ — innovative, transformative,” according to a report from The Verge.
Essentially, Google has to clear away years of Motorola mediocrity, past and future, before it can really build a device that will stand out as the quintessential Android smartphone.
That is where Guy Kawasaki comes in.
Kawasaki Joins Google To Advise Motorola
Guy Kawasaki – venture capitalist, publisher and early Apple evangelist – loves Android. We learned this in December, and heard more details when he sat down with ReadWrite editor-in-chief Dan Lyons for a ReadWrite Mix event in San Francisco last December. The revelation that Kawasaki, such a staunch Apple advocate for so long, was an Android fanboy was shocking to many people in the pro-iPhone camp.
(See also Shock And Awe: Apple Legend Guy Kawasaki has Become A Hardcore Android Fan.)
Apparently, his devotion to Android runs deeper than he originally let on.
Kawasaki tweeted on Wednesday that he will be joining Google as an advisor to Motorola. Kawasaki will focus on “product design, user interface, marketing, and social media,” according to a post on his Facebook page.
“Motorola reminds me of the Apple of 1998: a pioneer in its market segment, engineering-driven, and ripe for innovation. I believe that great products can change everything. For example, the creation of the iMac G3 (the Macs that came in colors such as Bondi, Strawberry, Blueberry, Lime, and Grape) was a pivotal event for Apple,” Kawasaki wrote.
What’s Next For Motorola?
Between Pichette and Kawasaki, we’re getting a pretty good idea of the direction of Motorola under Google’s stewardship:
- The first thing that needs to be done is to clear the pipeline.
- The next is to employ smart designers and idea people like Kawasaki to create transformative products under the Motorola name. Will that be the mysterious “Motorola X” that Google has supposedly been working on?
If we date Motorola’s 18 months of product pipeline from the time when the acquisition was approved by the U.S. Department Of Justice, Google still has nearly six months or so worth of Motorola supply chain to suffer through. It would not come as a surprise to see at least one more iteration of the Razr series from MotoGoo before we we find out what Motorola-under-Google really has up its sleeve.
After all this time, it had better be something that will make us all say “Wow!”
Top image: Motorola Droid Razr M by Dan Rowinski
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Trash Removal Business in Austin Hires SEO Firm to Improve Online Access for … – PR.com (press release)
Mar 1st
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Trash Removal Business in Austin Hires SEO Firm to Improve Online Access for …
PR.com (press release) This improved online access is the result of a search engine optimization campaign launched by SEO leader Prospect Genius on behalf of Junk Guy Austin, a local junk hauling business. Now when prospective customers search online for things like property … |
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Bing Maps Adds Variety Of Hi-Res Image Improvements
Feb 28th
Bing Maps has announced a series of updates to its high-resolution imagery, including expanded coverage, better mapping of ocean floors, cloud filtering and more. The prime features that Bing is touting involve what it calls “top of the world” imagery — those hi-res, top-down…
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Car Service in Jacksonville Hires SEO Marketers to Improve Search Engine … – PR.com (press release)
Feb 16th
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Car Service in Jacksonville Hires SEO Marketers to Improve Search Engine …
PR.com (press release) This improved online access to the transportation services of KWIC Airport Connection, Inc. was made possible by a search engine optimization campaign conducted by SEO leader Prospect Genius. As a result, visitors or locals needing a quick airport … |
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Car Service in Gaithersburg, MD, Hires SEO Marketing Firm to Help It Reach Out … – PR.com (press release)
Jan 6th
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Car Service in Gaithersburg, MD, Hires SEO Marketing Firm to Help It Reach Out …
PR.com (press release) Gaithersburg, MD, January 06, 2013 –(PR.com)– For Gaithersburg-area residents who need transportation to an appointment, special event, or the airport, it will soon be a lot easier to locate the right company for the job. Locally owned limo service … |
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Cisco Hires Barclays To Help It Off-Load Linksys
Dec 17th
Wardrivers take note: You may not have as many Linksys routers to hack if Cisco’s rumored sale of its consumer-facing Linksys unit actually happens. Well, you will, but the technology may be in a whole other form.
The name “Linksys” was synonymous with home-network routers throughout the world, as driving with a Wi-Fi device down most streets will demonstrate. I can go out into my backyard right now and find three Linksys networks in range (along with a couple of Netgear routers and a whole bunch of AT&T U-Verse and Comcast routers).
The proliferation of AT&T U-Verse and Comcast routers may be one of the reasons why Bloomberg is reporting that Cisco has hired investment-bank Barclays Plc. to sell the Linksys unit, which Cisco bought with much fanfare for $500 million in 2003.
Cisco is not commenting on this news, so one should take it with the requisite grain of salt. But the move would match Cisco’s pattern of dumping its consumer businesses. In April 2011, Cisco announced it would shut down its Flip camera business. The idea was — and still is — to get back to Cisco’s priorities: “core routing, switching and services; collaboration; architectures; and video.”
Presumably Linksys would not fall into core routing, but one would imagine that Cisco might make an exception for its subsidiary if Linksys were bringing in significant money.
When Cisco picked up Linksys for a mere half-billion dollars, it was estimated that router maker had something like 39% of the home-networking market. Orders for Linksys products have since weakened significantly. In 2010, In-Stat said Linksys’ revenue amounted to just 9% of total revenue for the market segment.
One reason why Linksys may have stumbled so far could be broadband providers policy of leasing equipment to customers — equipment that comes as part of the deal for most broadband contracts. While tech-savvy consumers are more likely to save the monthly equipment rental fee to go buy something else on their own, a majority of subscribers won’t bother.
Linksys devices were occasionally part of the packages offered by the broadband firms, but not often enough to change its fate.
For these people, the rental cost is transparent; just something that’s part of the monthly bill. Plus, setting up a router on your own, when the one that the broadband provider gave you is working just fine seems silly to them. Normally, I could get haughty about security, but when my provider came in to install its box, the installers actually gave me a good lecture about changing the router’s default password. (I sent the router back, but just to save the money.)
This will not be the end of Linksys, of course. There is already speculation that the technology will shift to the set-top box sector, and that’s a pretty good guess. It’s a very sure bet that Cisco won’t get nearly the price that it paid for the company nine years ago. But that will have to be the price Cisco pays to for its realignment.
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