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As four of the largest and arguably most currently influential technology companies — Google, Amazon.com, Apple, and Facebook — continue to exhibit ambitious tendencies to capture...

Google's statement that mobile payments are just getting started is correct. Its announcement on May 26, 2011, was another early salvo in what will be a long and hard-fought battle to change...
And What You Should Do About It
Search marketing faces a number of changes that will force interactive marketers to think more like business planners than like channel managers. While we expect the future of search to extend...
How To Create Social Media Strategies For Your Conversationalist Customers
With real-time and social search appearing in Google search results and Facebook surpassing Google in number of visits per day, marketers are realizing that earned media on social networks —...
How TV Will Finally Become Interactive, At Scale
Google made significant noise when it recently announced Google TV, the search giant's most recent attempt to influence the future of the TV experience. The news itself was overly complex, and Google...
How Marketers Can Position Their Brands With Online-Friendly Attributes
Google remains consumers' favorite online brand, with Yahoo! and Amazon not far behind. In the minds of their fans, the top online brands exhibit very traditional attributes such as trustworthiness,...
Search is a high-stakes business: Forrester estimates that the US search market overall is worth $15 billion in 2009, of which local advertising spend is nearly $4 billion. The companies vying for a...
Your Best Defense Is To Build Your Own Social Site Features
Google announced Sidewiki, a product that allows users of Google's Toolbar to share their comments on any Web site. Just as we predicted, this endows all Web sites with social features and...
Vodafone 360 is a bold initiative that will affect every firm's Social Computing strategy. Vodafone aims to drive mobile Internet adoption, acquire new customers, and increase long-term customer...