Archive for August, 2011

Facebook Fabulous: Five Business Success Tips

Facebook

List of tips that can help a business create fabulous Facebook pages.

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    iPad vs. Amazon’s Android Tablet – What Consumers Want

    iPad Vs. Amazon's Android Tablet

    If Amazon does, in fact, enter the tablet market with a low cost Android tablet this fall they might be able to change the playing field to a lower margin one where Apple would be less able to compete. Could a low cost Amazon Android tablet present one of the first serious contenders to the iPad? Based on the latest Retrevo Pulse Report, it appears that consumers are ready to buy a low cost tablet and are very keen on one from Amazon.

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    Facebook May Be Getting Better for Local Businesses

    Facebook

    Earlier this month, Roost put out a study finding that 15% of fans on the average small business Facebook Page are actually local to the town where the business is located. Naturally, that means 85% are not local, so if you’re a brick and mortar, the chances of them coming into your store anytime soon aren’t very good.

    Of course all of these studies should be taken with a grain of salt, but if it’s anywhere in the ballpark of accurate, that’s not great news, though it does speak to the benefits of selling online.

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    Amobee and Cooliris Put the 3D into Mobile Advertising

    Amobee, Inc

    Cooliris’ new standalone immersive 3D ads business unit, AdJitsu, and Amobee, the company defining mobile advertising, announced the launch of a new partnership that will enable big brands to deliver global cutting-edge 3D immersive ad campaigns for users on any mobile device and network.

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    Symbid – Become an Owner in Promising Start-Ups

    Symbid

    Symbid is the first online investment platform where investors, for €20 per share, can invest directly in shareholder’s equity from start-ups or exist­ing companies! This makes investors partial owners of the fully financed (new founded) company. Entrepreneurs use Symbid as a quick, simple and fun new way to obtain start or growth capital via all Symbid users and among their personal network though private invites.

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