THE BUSINESS OF TECHNOLOGY
Google has plans to increase its use of semantic search in its search engine, providing users with more than just the standard set of key-word inspired links but actual facts and direct answers to queries, the Wall. St. Journal recently reported. The search engine will look for the actual understanding of the meaning of searched words beyond simple … [Read more...]
Despite still being in invite only, Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than one of the biggest referral birds of them all, Twitter. The digital collage of users' web interests beat out the social media giant when it came to referral traffic for the month of February. The finding was discovered in a new study by Shareholic, an online … [Read more...]
Cloud-based services will create 14 million new jobs by 2015, a recent study commissioned by Microsoft in collaboration with the research firm IDC predicts. Though half of those jobs will be in China and India due to the sheer size of their populations and the potential for cheaper labor, over 1.2 million jobs will be created in the US and … [Read more...]
Yammer, the private social network, has nabbed $85 million, the company recently announced. This brings the company's total investments to $142 million. At nearly a billion dollars, this latest round gives the company instant capital similar to what it might expect from an IPO, but without all the headaches. Draper Fisher Jurvetson, led the … [Read more...]
Just as the gravediggers were readying Digg on their to-do list, Facebook came to the company's rescue, adding a Digg Social Reader application to Timeline. January saw Facebook referral traffic for the company increase 67 percent, while Digg's pageviews also jumped 35 percent. The company saw its highest traffic numbers since January of 2010, … [Read more...]
Biting the hand that feeds it, Yahoo slapped Facebook with a demand for fees on 10 to 20 patents, threatening to sue if the social media company failed to comply. The patents cover technologies that cover social networking, advertising, and the personalization of websites. The patents include some of the earliest granted to Yahoo. The New York … [Read more...]
Sharing photos on Facebook should be easy. Automatically sharing your entire photo collection unknowingly with app developers should be impossible, but it isn't. A recently exposed loophole in the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch reveals that app developers can easily download a device's entire photo collections by asking the user to disclose her … [Read more...]
LinkedIn has acquired Rapportive, a browser plugin that overlays Gmail with info on other social media feeds. The news was first put up for rumor a couple of weeks ago by AllThingsD, and then confirmed Feb. 22 by Rapportive in a blog post. Rapportive empowers your email with the latest social network updates from your contacts, linking LinkedIn, … [Read more...]
Yes, Google may well have been looking over your shoulder every time you surf your iPhone, iPad or MacBook, or anything using Safari for that matter. The infraction was first discovered by Jonathan Mayer, a grad student at Stanford, who reported it to the Wall St. Journal. In addition to Google, Mayer identified Vibrant Media, Media Innovation … [Read more...]
Baidu, the giant of Chinese search, posted Q4 revenues that revealed an 82.5 percent increase over the year before. Revenues hit RMB4.474 billion ($710.9 million), while the quarter's net income hit RMB2.054 billion ($326.3 million), a 76.9 percent increase from 2010. The company's total revenues for the year reached RMB14.501 billion ($2.304 … [Read more...]