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LinkedIn Shares Mobile Advertising Ambitions

LinkedInLinkedIn just became the second social media giant this month to signal plans for ads in mobile.

During its quarterly earnings call, CEO Jeff Weiner said mobile access represents an ever-growing share of time users spend with LinkedIn. He said the company is investigating more…

Google Working on Password Generator for Chrome

google_chromeGoogle is working on a new password manager for its Chrome browser that would also automatically create strong passwords for users.

The new manager is currently in the design phase, but Google has described the process by which it would work. more…

Top Camping Essentials For Everyone

If you are looking for a successful camping then there are a lot of essential stuffs that you might take with you. The list of all these stuffs is a guideline for your packing. When you are planning for camping then you have to bring lots of things with you to have a comfortable and safe stay. These items are also needed because you are out there for a fun. It can be a bit difficult to ensure that you select the right item particularly when you have limited packing space. Some of the most essential camping items are mentioned in the following paragraphs. more…

Serving up jobs in a hot and cold marketplace

marmaladeBRUNSWICK cafe owner Robyn Enlund has a tip for anyone looking for a job – become a barista.

”The world is your oyster,” says Ms Enlund, who owns the Miss Marmalade cafe with her husband, Tony. ”If they’re good they can go anywhere demanding quite high wages and more…

Google Wallet Disables Prepaid Cards Until Security Flaw Fixed

google-wallet-lockGoogle has disabled parts of its Wallet service as the company looks to address a high-profile security vulnerability.

The company said it has temporarily disabled the use of prepaid cards on its more…

U.S. Mobile Ad Spending Forecast to Exceed $2.6 Billion in 2012

Due to the rapid growth of mobile phones in the world and the advancement of Google’s mobile search advertising business, mobile ad spending is expected to grow past $2.6 billion in 2012 according to eMarketer. Mobile ad spending has been nearly doubling over the past couple years each and every year and this year is expected to follow suit. more…

Google: 62 Percent Of Valentine’s Day Restaurant Searches Were Mobile

googleGoogle is releasing some data on mobile search and Valentine’s Day. The company said, “A whopping 62 percent of total searches for popular national chain restaurants [in the US] on Valentine’s Day occurred on high end mobile devices or tablets.”

One more time: 62 percent of all US-based national chain restaurant queries were coming from mobile devices. more…

DuckDuckGo Has Its First Million-Search Day

duckduckgoThe growth chart continues to trend in the right direction for DuckDuckGo.

It was just about three weeks ago that we wrote about the search engine setting its own record with 731,000 searches in a single day. To go from that to more than a million in a few weeks is impressive. more…

Job Search Engine Adzuna.co.uk Receives £500k Investment Backing from Index Ventures

adzunaAdzuna, the next-generation job search engine, has today announced it has raised £500k investment financing from Index Ventures, The Accelerator Group and existing investors including Passion Capital. The latest funding follows a seed round last year. Launched in July 2011, Adzuna classifieds aims to more…

County 10 Launches Free Classifieds

freeclassifiedsAs of this week, you and 24,000 of your friends and neighbors read real-time, local news on County 10. We’ve listened to your requests and starting today, you’ll also get to buy and sell goods and services to the county’s largest audience using our free County 10 Community Classifieds. more…

3 strategies for making e-commerce truly social

shoppingIn just one year from now, we’ll see social technologies disrupt e-commerce the same way they’ve already disrupted online gaming, music and news.

Commerce has always been social. Shopping in the real world is a form of social entertainment, and we turn to more…

Adobe: Chrome for Android will not get Flash support

FlashNOWhen Google today launched Chrome for Android in beta they did so without support for Adobe Flash. For many users this seemed surprising given the strong push for Flash on Google’s mobile OS after Steve Jobs and Apple refused to allow Adobe’s platform on their iOS devices. The writing, however, was on the wall. more…