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Posted by } Alex Spencer 2011 was a year of rapid growth and change in the mobile advertising industry. It was the year that saw smartphones, Tablets and the mobile internet become mainstream among consumers, and that saw marketers and advertisers increase spend and begin prioritising mobile. 2012 looks set to be even more of a critical [...]
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eBay rides mobile commerce to strong earnings
Posted: October 20, 2011 in Digital Trends, E-Commerce, Industry News, Internet, M-Commerce, Mobile Industry News, Mobile PlatformsTags: Ebay, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, John Donahoe, mobile commerce, PayPal, Revenue, Wall Street, ZDNet
Posted by ] Rachel King Following eBay‘s grand introduction of its X.commerce open-source platform at the Innovate Developer Conference last week, eBay is having another week to boast about. This afternoon eBay reported third-quarter earnings of $490.5 million, or 37 cents a share. Non-GAAP earnings were 48 cents a share on revenue of $2.97 billion. Wall Street was [...]
Google Ventures’ Rich Miner talks about the mobile revolution
Posted: September 13, 2011 in Industry News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mobile Applications, Mobile Industry News, Mobile Internet, Mobile Platforms, Mobile Technology, Technology, Venture Capitalism, Wireless TechnologiesTags: Android, Crittercism, Google, Google Ventures, iOS, Orange Ventures, Rich Miner, VentureBeat
Google Ventures announced recently that it is investing inAstrid, a task management app, and Crittercism, an SDK that helps provide customer support for mobile. Google Ventures’ partner Rich Miner made the announcement during VentureBeat’s fourth annual MobileBeat conference. (We have a separate story withmore details on the Astrid investment.) We’ll be posting more on those companies throughout [...]
BOMBSHELL: Google Buying Handset Maker Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion
Posted: August 15, 2011 in Industry News, Telecommunications, Information communications technology, Mobile Phones, Technology, Mobile Technology, Mobile Handsets, Smartphones, Mobile Industry News, Handset manufacturers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wireless TechnologiesTags: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Android, Larry Page, United States Department of Justice, Business Wire, Motorola Mobility, Google acquisition Motorola
Huge! Google is buying handset maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. That’s a 61% premium. Needless to say this is a gamechanger in the mobile world, as Google moves down the stack, and is no longer just an operating system provider meaning it competes directly with Apple as well as the various other handset makers who currently use Android. What’s more, one of [...]
comScore Releases Overview of European Internet Usage for May 2011
Posted: July 6, 2011 in Digital Trends, Industry News, Internet, Mobile Internet, OnlineTags: ComScore, Facebook, LinkedIn, Mobile phone, SCOR, Smartphone, Twitter, WordPress
Posted By: ComScore Spotlight on France Reveals Seasonal Growth in Tax, Car Rental, and Flowers Web Properties London, UK, July 6, 2011 - comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an overview of Internet usage in Europe, showing 366.9 million unique visitors went online in May 2011 for an average [...]
Seven Personality Traits of Top Salespeople
Posted: June 28, 2011 in Work Ethics, Work PsychologyTags: Continental Airlines, Curiosity, Decision making, Friendship, High tech, Personal effectiveness, Personality test, Sales, Salesperson Traits, Score (game), Workplace research
If you ask an extremely successful salesperson, “What makes you different from the average sales rep?” you will most likely get a less-than-accurate answer, if any answer at all. Frankly, the person may not even know the real answer because most successful salespeople are simply doing what comes naturally.
