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HootSuite partners with HubSpot to tie in social media with lead generation
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Social media management dashboard HootSuite has today announced a “strategic partnership” with all-in-one marketing software platform HubSpot . This partnership will seek to connect social media with lead management and generation for companies, with a view towards “closing the loop” on social media marketing. Joint efforts include app integration in HootSuite’s...
Top tips for a great video meeting
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This post is sponsored by Citrix® GoToMeeting®. Attend your meetings from anywhere. Try GoToMeeting today for Free! The definition of work is changing. Offices are claimed in co-sharing spaces, at coffee shop tables or steps away from the bedroom. Business owners hold meetings without even having to leave the...
The new recruiting ecosystem
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The proliferation of social and professional networks makes some job boards and headhunters feel pretty old-fashioned. Professional social networks like LinkedIn and Viadeo already play a big role in talent acquisition, while companies like BranchOut, Jobvite and even Monster are building Facebook apps for hiring and career development. According to...
The state of cloud APIs: myths vs. reality
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With no single cloud standard in sight, developers and IT pros need to think carefully about how to maintain control and compatibility with current and future cloud services. Betting on one of a multitude of working groups attempting to pin down a standard API for cloud services seems risky, as...
ComScore: Amazon growth doubled the rest of the e-commerce market in Q4
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Amazon announced the company’s fourth quarter results last week, which fell short of Wall Street’s estimates. The company reported $17.4 billion in revenue, with net sales up 35% from $12.95 billion in the same quarter of 2010. Despite falling short of analyst estimates of $18.26 billion, Amazon’s growth was more than twice...
Search Beyond Search Engines Can Yield Valuable Data For Advertisers
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When most people think, “search,” they automatically think Google. Well, think again. New data reveals that Google and its fellow search engines are not the only search game in town. We recently hosted a webinar with comScore focused on search data, which examined search activity happening across... Please visit Marketing...
Study: Enterprises Want More Marketing Data, But They Don’t Know What To Do With It
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Online marketers and advertising are getting access to more and more data, but that’s not enough, according to the 2012 Digital Marketing 2.0 Study commissioned by ad company DataXu. More than 350 “enterprise decision makers” in management, marketing, communications, digital, IT and social media were surveyed, and 75 percent of them...
Hitting a home run in the cloud
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If there’s such a thing as a perfect sports season, we’re in the middle of it right now. From the NBA and NHL play-offs to baseball season and then the Olympics, it’s a great time for sports fans. But for anyone on the IT side supporting this huge fan base,...
The three horsemen of the enterprise collaboration apocalypse
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Three technologies are revolutionizing enterprise collaboration. IT organizations that can’t accommodate social, mobile and cloud computing effectively will be overwhelmed. GigaOM Pro forecasts suggest the majority of business computing will be cloud-based in five years and half the devices on corporate networks will be mobile. Meanwhile, social media — largely...
Big data meets business: solving problems that matter
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Fortune 500 companies are using Hadoop and big data technologies to transform their use of data for financial analysis, retail customer intelligence, IT operational insight, environmental and biomedical research, energy management, and even national security. But what results are they seeing? What have the early adopters of big data systems...
Webinar, Thursday, April 26: Display Audience Targeting
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On Thursday, April 26, Noon EST, 9 AM PST – Join speaker Justin Merickel of Adobe Systems as he discusses how to use display targeting capabilities to attract more high-value customers. Register now! Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article....
Top 5 innovations for Hadoop in the enterprise
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Interest in Hadoop is booming as it moves beyond the large Web properties to industries such as banking, retail, oil and gas, government, and more. As the value of Hadoop is more broadly recognized, more organizations are investigating this open-source big data platform. It is worth noting that there...
PS2 still tops PS3 in U.S. homes, and other surprising video-game stats
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Fifty-six percent of U.S. households own at least one current-generation video-game console, up from 50 percent a year ago. Thirty-nine percent own at least one iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, up from 30 percent last year. Among video-game consoles, the Nintendo Wii still has the biggest presence among U.S. households,...
Cloud storage, big data and collaboration: connecting the dots
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As enterprises begin to adopt cloud services and with big data evolving quickly, there are hurdles to incorporating these new capabilities into the business. A potential enabler of big data is cloud storage, because it lets companies collaborate around large data sets in near real time, something that has been...
Designing for big data: the new architectural stack
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The right architectural stack might look something like this: Ubuntu, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), MapReduce, Cassandra or HBase, Hive, Flume, JDBC and ODBC drivers, Hue, Pig, Oozie, Avro, and Zookeeper, as well as some Chef configuration management tools. The list goes on and on. How does an IT...
Hadoop, big data and business: a match made in heaven
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Apache Hadoop has been positioned as the technology to help companies leverage big data to learn about their customers, markets, products and operations. But is it right for you? Understanding what big data is, how it can help companies solve business challenges, and why Hadoop is the right technology match...
VB webinar at 1pm PT to explore Singapore as Asian launch pad
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VentureBeat and IDA Singapore are hosting a free video webinar today at 1pm PT. There are unprecedented innovation and growth opportunities taking place in Asia, and Singapore is the epicenter of it. VB Executive Editor Dylan Tweney will moderate a lively discussion with a group of Silicon Valley CEOs about...
VB Video Webinar: Is Singapore your launch pad to Asia?
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I just got back from Singapore, where I spent last week helping launch the inaugural DEMO Asia event. Through a series of energetic demonstrations, 76 companies, many of which were non-Asian, unveiled their innovative products to the Asian market. There’s so much momentum over there, and with Singapore leading Southeast Asia’s...
How to expand into Asia: Free VB webinar Thursday
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There are unprecedented innovation and growth opportunities taking place in Asia, and Singapore is the epicenter of it. With its world-class startup ecosystem, support structure, and strategic location, Singapore has emerged as the premiere launchpad for U.S.-based and international entrepreneurs looking to expand to Asian markets. Here at VentureBeat, we’re...
ComScore US Internet Report: YoY, Pinterest Up 4000+%, Amazon Up 30%, Android Top Smartphone & More
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In new data being released today, measurement firm comScore says that unique visits to social networking sites have increased by 6% year-over-year. The company also re-confirmed that Pinterest remains the fastest-growing social network as of Q1 2012, and its users rival only that of LinkedIn in terms of buying power....
Top 5 gotchas that prevent NoSQL from meeting business goals
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NoSQL is addressing some tough challenges that businesses have in harnessing big data, and consequently, it’s growing like a weed in the enterprise. But this is causing additional problems down the line that IT departments can’t afford to take on with no extra budget and the business side breathing down...
Unlocking the pricing complexity of cloud
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Cloud computing is no longer a sandbox for test and development. Enterprises want to move mission-critical workloads to the cloud like Microsoft and SAP have done. In doing so, they are looking for consumption-based pricing for different workloads, security and compliance guarantees, and deep QoS and metrics around application performance...
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Future Of GlusterFS – From Open Core to Open Source
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Picture Credit: Gluster.org In October of 2011, Red Hat (previous CloudAve coverage) announced the acquisition of Gluster, the company behind GlusterFS (previous CloudAve coverage) open source distributed storage solution. Even though Red Hat is a company based on open source philosophy, there were questions about what is in store for...
Facebook Launches A Guide To Facebook Ads
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This morning, Facebook launched a new area of the site to explain how to use the company’s ad platform effectively. It’s a comprehensive resource which breaks down to the details of things like ad creative, scheduling your ads, analyzing reports about ad performance, and more. Additionally, there is a pre-recorded...
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Sponsor post: New: Amazon DynamoDB
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Amazon DynamoDB is a fast, scalable NoSQL database service designed for Internet-scale applications. With growth spikes, web-based apps often run into database scaling challenges. Learn how DynamoDB can help at the Feb. 15 webinar. Reserve your seat!...
Ooh my fave Acronym blogger Brian Birch is doing a webinar on Socmed Strategy for events on Apr 7! #Engage365 http://bit.ly/chDdk6
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Ooh my fave Acronym blogger Brian Birch is doing a webinar on Socmed Strategy for events on Apr 7! #Engage365 http://bit.ly/chDdk6
How A Blogger Made $10,449 Per Hour
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As a reader of my site, you know that I am quite open about this fact: Blogs don’t make money. Businesses make money. And businesses sell things. Seems pretty simple, but most bloggers just fail to comprehend this one. They’ll chase the Adsense fairy for any loose change. To illustrate...
RT @themaria: We are starting the @attensity360 webinar in 20 minutes! There's still time to register! @ 11 a.m. PST http://bit.ly/smdemo
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