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With Twitter priced its initial price offering earlier today at $26 per share, the company finally rung the NYSE opening bell. The micro-blogging giant planned to sell 70 million shares out of total of 545 million outstanding shares while it will trade under the TWTR symbol. ...

Twitter announced Wednesday via its own official Twitter page that it priced its initial public offering at $26 per share. The price range which was been expected while the company plans to sell 70 million shares out of total of 545 million outstanding shares. The micro-blogging giant revealed back in September that it had filed for the offering while it released its S-1 form publicly only in early October. It is expected that the company will raise $1.82 billion from the offering. Twitter will ring the New York Stock Exchange opening...

When it comes to blogging, there are a lot of options, but two stand out: WordPress and Tumblr. WordPress is by far the most popular and widely used. It comes with more features, more flexibility, more templates and more ability to customize. Tumblr, however, is easier to set up, and takes much less effort, expertise, and experience to launch and maintain. It is this ease of use, designed for the novice, that has fueled the recent takeoff of Tumblr as the go-to choice for businesspeople who want to expand their brand without devoting...

According to the latest numbers from Strategy Analytics, the global smartphone shipments has reached 251.4 million units in third quarter 2013, up 45% from 172.8 million units shipped in same quarter a year ago. Android 204.4 million units shipped with grabbing 81.3% market share. Apple’s iOS is on second position with total of 33.8 million units sold with grabbing 13.4% market share. Microsoft Windows Phone platform is on third position with total of 10.2 million units sold while its market share currently stands at 4.1%. The...

Facebook today announced its third quarter 2013 earnings with reporting the revenue of $2.02 billion, an increase of 60% compared to same quarter a year ago. The company made revenue from advertising for the quarter was $1.80 billion, a 66% increase from the same quarter last year. Mobile advertising revenue represented approximately 49% of advertising revenue for the third quarter of 2013 while the payments and other fees revenue was $218 million for the third quarter of 2013. The daily active users (DAUs) for the quarter were 728 million...

In a world that thrives on the use of the internet and is buzzing with a variety of social media platforms that allow you to chat, sell, buy and over share, is it any surprise that it is becoming increasingly common to also use social media to job search? While you can find a wealth of employment related support services online, it is important to utilise the other resources that are also widely available to you. Social media is a primary vehicle of communication today, and with so much information well categorised and made public, it’s...

Online business media promotions are extremely important in order to increase the visibility of your brand or business. In recent time, people tend to avoid yellow pages and try to search online to find products and services. For this reason, it is necessary to have an active presence on social media sites. The top 5 social media sites that you should utilize for promoting your business are as follows – Facebook Facebook is the largest and the most successful social networking site available in the market.  It helps us to keep in touch...

Social network marketing is hard to master- it can either build up your business or ruin your reputation. Here are the five worst mistakes and what you can learn from them: McDonald’s hash tag: When McDonald’s created the McD stories hash tag to inspire customers to share their favourite McDonald’s moments, they did not consider the bad experiences the customers might share along with the good. A hash tag should be used carefully because you cannot control what people say. Snickers paid Jordan to tweet about their brand name. She...

It’s damn hard work! There you have it – that’s the truth. But what hard work should you be doing?  It’s not easy to know because there’s so many opinions out there.  And many opinions are based on spammy and manipulative techniques Google will penalize. What should you do? Here’s the down-lo: Provide a quality user experience Ultimately, Google wants websites genuinely interested in providing a good user experience at the top of its rankings.  Good user experience means high-quality, valuable content that solves people’s...