Do you shove lots of ads at the top of your web pages? Think again. Tired of doing a Google search and landing on these types of pages? Rejoice. Google has announced that it will penalize sites with pages that are top-heavy with ads. Top Heavy With Ads? Look Out! The change — called the [...]
January 12, 2012 Retailers’ paid mobile search budgets grew in the fourth quarter Mobile paid search put in a stellar performance in the fourth quarter of 2011 with a pair of new reports indicating mobile’s share of paid clicks doubled during the period while retailers increased their mobile search spend by 269 percent. The growth [...]
Since LEDs are far more energy efficient than incandescent bulbs, they are at the heart of the latest generation of lights. In fact, research by my team at the University of Edinburgh has shown that, if all the world’s incandescent light bulbs were replaced by LED, the energy saved would be equivalent to that produced [...]
According to Marissa Meyer at Google, some credit card companies can now use your purchasing decisions to predict whether you’re going to get a divorce with 95% accuracy — two years out. Imagine a company where every communication is transparently available to every employee.
The protester” has been named Time’s Person of the Year. The magazine unveiled the choice on Wednesday morning. Managing editor Richard Stengel also revealed the decision on the “Today” show. Stengel said that finalists included Kate Middleton, Admiral William McRaven and Congressman Paul Ryan. Steve Jobs and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords did not make the short [...]
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Another important day in the browser wars: Chrome has surpassed Firefox in market share for the first time ever, according to a new report from StatCounter. Google’s browser had 25.69 percent global market share for November, while Firefox took home 25.23 percent. Both trail Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which is still the world’s most used browser [...]
A new website called “Joey Quits” is providing an outlet for disgruntled hotel employees to air their grievances about bad bosses and unacceptable work conditions by sharing their stories through videos and written reports. The website is inspired by Joey DeFrancesco’s videotaped dramatic departure from his job at the Providence Renaissance Hotel in Rhode Island [...]