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Search ad growth should motivate SEO investment – Brafton
Jan 31st
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Search ad growth should motivate SEO investment
Brafton As such, businesses are expected to spend 27 percent more on search advertising in 2012 than they did in 2011 and SEO marketers should be prepared to incorporate developing trends in their content marketing campaigns to fuel organic search results. |
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Saudi Prince: Politics Did Not Factor In Twitter Investment
Jan 26th
The Saudi prince who invested $300 million in Twitter in December said the move was not politically motivated.
“It was a pure financial investment with economic objectives,” Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, told CNN. “Politics has no ingredients whatsoever in that investment … the secure economic financial investment with expected huge returns to our company Kingdom Holding.”
Alwaleed, who also has a stake in Apple, said he expects the computer maker to thrive despite last year’s death of Steve Jobs.
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“Politics has no ingredients whatsoever in that investment … the secure economic financial investment with expected huge returns to our company.”
“I believe that Steve Jobs’ genius is by establishing a company that could outlive him and continue with his path,” he said.
Initially, some analysts suggested Alwaleed was interested in obtaining a stake in Twitter because of the role it played in the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and northern Africa. Alwaleed also holds an interest in News Corp., prompting speculation he may have played a role in Rupert Murdoch’s decision to start using Twitter late last year.
At the time of his acquisition, Alwaleed’s investment in Twitter amounted to a 3% stake, based on a $800 million valuation of the company last August. While Alwaleed prides himself on being an early investor in Apple, Amazon and eBay, he said he did not see himself as an early investor in Twitter.
“We don’t believe we came in at the early stage, but clearly we don’t believe we came in at the plateau stage,” he said. “We see that this company’s viability and its continuity and its resilience will be there in the decades to come.”
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New Solar Investment Brings Google’s Clean Energy Portfolio to Nearly $1B
Dec 21st
Google is investing $94 million in solar farms built by Recurrent Energy in the Sacramento, California region. This brings Google’s total clean energy investments to over $925 million, with over $880 million in 2011 alone.
The Recurrent Energy -…
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Russian Search Engine Yandex Leads $30 Million Investment In Blekko
Sep 29th
Blekko is the either the fourth US search engine or the third if you no longer consider Yahoo a search engine. And the company has been able to maintain visibility and stir the pot with its persistent criticism of Google search results being spam-filled. Now the company has secured $30 million in…
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Carriers Cooperating on Big Investment in Isis for NFC Mobile Payments
Aug 29th
The top cellular carriers in the United States do not often play nice with each other. Yet, when there is a common enemy on the horizon, even the fiercest of rivals will band together to keep from being pushed aside. That is apparently what AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon are doing by jointly investing $100 million in Isis, an NFC mobile payment solution set to battle Google’s Wallet project.
According to Bloomberg, the carriers may invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the NFC solution to battle Google Wallet. Mobile payments may be a $670 billion industry by 2015, making the early moves by all the players extremely important.
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First Step: NFC Chips
NFC chips are beginning to become ubiquitous in new smartphones and it is a matter of time before consumer behavior starts to change when it comes to day-to-day payment options. NFC payments is currently on top of Gartner’s “Hype Circle” which means that it is between two and five years from maturing into commercially viable technology. Given the pace of mobile innovation and the vigor of the carriers (as seen with this new large investment in Isis), it is probably best to bet on the short end of that development cycle.
There are other large companies with a vested interest in how NFC is developed. Google and the carriers are the primary drivers but the credit card companies also have a major stake. Visa, which has invested in mobile card reader Square, is investing in NFC terminals for merchants outside of what the other players are doing, according to Bloomberg.
Sprint & Google Need to Come to The Herd
Sprint is on the outside of the Isis co-operative. Hence, when Google announced its NFC plans in May, Sprint was the carrier of choice for the Wallet project. Sprint plans on rolling out its NFC and the Google payments option to its smartphones later this year, rolling out ahead of ISIS, which plans on releasing its NFC option in mid-2012.
Google Wallet and Isis are probably the future of the daily deals industry as well. Sprint, Isis and Google (through its Offers program) plan on using mobile wallets to push coupons to consumers while taking a cut of the sales.
Isis probably has the upper hand over Google and Sprint. It has the cooperation of all the major payment operators and a large existing customer infrastructure. Google’s partners include Sprint, CitiBank and MasterCard. Those are important players, but Google and Sprint should consider joining Isis for the good of the ecosystem, which is in danger of becoming extremely fragmented.
One Reader to Rule Them All
What it will all come down to is the ubiquity and simplicity of NFC card readers. If a player (like Visa or one of the large financial management companies) creates a NFC reader that will be carrier, device and service agnostic, then all players can survive and compete together. Yet, most merchants will not put in multiple payment readers.
Therefore, for NFC to truly take off as a payment option, a compromise will need to be reached. That is not outside the realm of possibility as Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile show us with their investment in Isis.
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3D Printers Get Big Boost: Foundry Group Leads $10m Investment in MakerBot
Aug 23rd
Consumer-grade 3D printer manufacturers MakerBot Industries has raised $10 million in venture financing lead by Brad Feld’s Foundry Group, the fund announced today. The MakerBot project is exciting because it represents a democratization of physical manufacturing.
“I believe that we’ll look back in 20 years and 3D printers will be as ubiquitous as laser printers are today,” Feld wrote this morning. “We aren’t yet at the point that is equivalent to the first HP Laserjet in 1984, but I think we’ll see a comparable product from MakerBot within a year. In the mean time, I’m going to keep downloading 3D things from the Thingiverse and keeping my Thing-O-Matic busy.”
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MakerBot is two and a half years old and is based in New York. Do you foresee yourself having a 3D printer/fabricator in your home in the future? It sure would be fun, that much is for sure.
Below, MakerBot customer John Biehler shows how it’s done in a fan video demonstrating his creation of a pencil holder.
3D Printing a Hyperboloid from John Biehler on Vimeo.
Discuss
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SEO India Companies Ensure Clients Get High Returns on Investment – SBWire (press release)
Jul 28th
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SEO India Companies Ensure Clients Get High Returns on Investment
SBWire (press release) Noida, UP — (SBWIRE) — 07/26/2011 — The company rendering SEO Services in India will initiate many strategic moves to make this happen. Extensive research will be carried out for keywords related to all client products. … SEO and User Experience Have to Work Together IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd – Veterans of SEO Services SEO Company Offers White Label SEO Service to UK Businesses. |
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