For businesses yet to avail of enterprise social networking, it is high time to do a rethink or else they face risk of losing their competitive advantage because internal collaboration along with cross-functional integration hold the key to efficient organizations in today’s competitive climate. A long-term approach to integration, mobility and community-building is critical to successful social networking within the workplace irrespective of geographical barriers. Read the rest of this entry »

With the iPhone now accounting for about 58 percent of its revenue in the latest quarter, Apple is constantly looking to upgrade its operating system in order to overpower the devices running Android that made for almost 60 percent of smartphone shipments globally in the first financial quarter, compared with 23 percent of the iPhone, according to IDC. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft and Google are engaged in an intense high-stakes game of brinkmanship over the controversial issue of advertisers tracing footsteps of users across the Web. The battle is getting intense over how exactly to implement the policy of a soon-to-be-released ‘Do Not Track’ Web browser button, which will opt users out of data collection on sites across each participating ad network. Read the rest of this entry »

Many prominent enterprises on the Web have tried to take on Google but have not really succeeded. There is an exception in the making, so to say. DuckDuckGo is probably about as small in size as an online venture can be. Its full-time employee count will take a few fingertips. Yet it has managed to build with one of the most powerful Google alternatives thus far. It does not involve maps, e-mail, social networking, or real-time results. Read the rest of this entry »

Actions initiated against ‘overoptimized’ sites by Google have been intensified. It seems a series of recent updates are easily able to detect most links-related overoptimization digressions, which can lead to both short and long-term positional damage, with or without any warnings. Even though the search engine major announced the Penguin update a couple of months ago, changes on its link evaluation system have been quite noticeable well before the announcement. Read the rest of this entry »

Comparison Ads courtesy Google now allow users to compare a host of relevant advertisers’ offers fast and conveniently, also providing a new, flexible, and sophisticated cost-per-lead format. Users obviously seek quick and in-depth results, so the search giant has tried to make sure that these instantly display targeted offers. At present, the Ads product offering serves across three separate verticals, namely credit card, CD, checking account and lastly, savings account vertical. Read the rest of this entry »

The US has been pressing hard for a stringent privacy bill of rights, which would allow consumers greater control over what kind of personal data is gathered online and what sort of limits would or should be placed on it. The agreement reached in this regard covers all of the major advertising alliance’s members, such as AOL, Time Warner, NBCUniversal, Google, and Yahoo. Read the rest of this entry »

Google+, Twitter and Facebook offer a great scope to form meaningful professional contacts, to help connect with top companies, enhance your professional reputation, gain exposure to job market, know about vacancies, and ultimately, fulfill your ambitious career dreams. In this post, we shall discuss ways and means of  leveraging the various social media channels to propel your career graph. Read the rest of this entry »

Unlike Bing or Google, Wolfram Alpha does not actually forage the Web. It tries to cull information from its own meticulously curated database to come up with answers. Its goal is to make all kinds of systematic knowledge immediately computable and available to all. Its researchers make constant innovations with regular data updates to countless sources and improvements to its natural-language parser, new data sets and functionality. The formal name of this computational knowledge engine’s new version is ‘Wolfram Alpha Pro, and Dr’. Read the rest of this entry »

The social media space, even when there’s talk of some saturation creeping in, actually continues to evolve at a rapid pace and in different ways. A prime example of this is Pinterest, a site not even two years old, now climbing up the popularity ladder by leaps and bounds. It has already found place among the top 10 sites in the category of Social Networking & Forums by the Hitwise. Read the rest of this entry »