Smartphone sales set Nokia’s cash registers ringing this past Deepawali in India, with the company reportedly having sold about ₹ 400 crore’s ($81 million) worth of phones. The report comes...

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Streaming Media magazine has put together their first annual Streaming Media 100—a list of the one hundred companies that matter most in the world of online video.  How did they choose and who made the cut?  Read on to find out more.


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LinkedIn remains B2B companies' favorite social network. Recently LinkedIn added a new feature that makes using LinkedIn for your B2B business even better: Company Status Updates.Having company profiles was nice to gather some data, for SEO benefit and to follow companies that were of interest to you. Previously following a company just meant you knew [...]

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With the constant changes to Facebook's platform, B2B marketers are already challenged to connect with customers and prospects on the platform. Now they are talking about making it worse. It makes me wonder why Facebook hates B2B companies. Was Mark Zuckerberg bit by a B2B company when he was a kid? Social media site Mashable [...]

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Graphic courtesy of Wired.Do you know how long mobile phone service providers keep records about which cell tower you used? Or, text messages? Or, call detail records? Wired took a look at a photo copy of a U.S. Department of Justice summary table titled "Retention Periods of Major Cellular Service Providers" that provides the specifics.


Read More: How Long Do Cell Phone Companies Keep Information About Your Location, Usage & Bills?

These days more and more small businesses are making their way onto Facebook, but if you haven’t opened a Facebook page for your business yet you may be wondering whether or not it’s worth it.  A new infographic from do-it-yourself Facebook page builder tool Pagemodo illustrates the ways in which Facebook is helping companies generate business and increase their revenue.


Read More: How Does Facebook Generate Business For Companies? [Infographic]

This guest post is by Lina Nguyen of Words That Influence. Influential bloggers are being paid top dollar to write sponsored posts (thousands of dollars per post is not unheard of). They’re gifted with luxury items, cars and overseas trips, and invited to events previously exclusive to A-List celebrities and long-established journalists. Bloggers worldwide are [...]

Read More: 7 Powerful Reasons Why Companies Will Pay for You to Blog

Facebook announced some pretty major updates on their platform this week that will change how users interact and how B2B marketers communicate with them. The changes themselves have gotten lots of coverage so I won't recap those, but here are some articles that look at Facebook as a business and how other businesses interact with [...]

Read More: Why Should B2B Companies Care About Facebook’s Changes?

Tulsa-based app developer MacroSolve, Inc. has sued companies like AT&T, Citigroup, Dell, Groupon, Living Social and SalesForce in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for infringing...

Read More: MacroSolve sues AT&T, Dell and other companies over app distribution

Feel like your workplace is clamping down on social media use? You’re not alone. A new survey reveals more and more employers are blocking Twitter and Facebook at work.


Read More: Over Half Of UK Companies Block Social Media at Work

Hi, I'm Jeremiah Owyang, analyst at Altimeter Group, and I'm looking forward to keynoting Social Commerce Summit Europe.  I'll be discussing how companies scale in social business, as well as how companies prepare internally in order to do so.   We just recently published our latest report on Social Business Readiness, and I wanted to share [...]

Read More: Social media crises on the rise, companies ill-prepared

August was a bucket of cold water on what was supposed to be the best year for initial public offerings in the United States since 2007. And the tech/social media crowd played a strong role, even if the consumer goods sector was getting most of the credit. With the downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt earlier this month, market volatility effectively brought the IPO market to a screeching halt. Well, that’s the easy way to look at it.

Read More: 5 Reasons Social Media Companies are Still Trying to Go Public

Social media is an exceptional advertising tool, and alcohol companies have benefitted from increased marketing opportunities,  but a new study from the UK suggests youth are being negatively impacted by the combination of social media and alcohol promotion.


Read More: Alcohol Companies and Social Media: A Dangerous Combination For Youth According to New Study

A new study/infographic from Mindflash and Column Five explores the question, ‘Are Companies Allowing Employees to Use Social Media in the Workplace?’ Not quite sure how much I trust the data, especially since they call the study an “informal global study”. Here are some key data points that certainly surprise me and sadden me at the same time: 48.3 percent of companies allow all employees access to social networking sites (This is a good start) 27 percent of companies actively monitor employees [...]

Read More: Why is that companies don’t trust their employees?

A new survey has just been released that shows how companies approach social media in the workplace with some pretty surprising findings. When you work in a more open and flexible company, it’s easy to forget that many people, particularly in larger organisations, are subject to fairly intense monitoring or policing of access to social networks. And, somewhat worryingly, the policies adopted towards use of social media don’t just apply to the workplace, but outside of it as well.In the companies [...]

Read More: 44% of companies track employees' social media use in AND out of the office

These days almost everyone is on Facebook and Twitter and, for many of us, our social media activity is spilling over from our private lives into the workplace.  More and more people are Facebooking and Tweeting from work, but what do our employers think about this phenomenon?  A new infographic from Mindflash and Column Five explores the question, ‘Are Companies Allowing Employees to Use Social Media in the Workplace?’


Read More: What Are Companies Saying About Social Media In The Workplace? [Infographic]

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Sometimes you need a social media statistic to finish a project, whether it is a blog post, client presentation or a slide deck to support a speech. I recently needed the results of a survey that showed how many companies blocked employee access to social networking sites. All I could find was a study [...]

Read More: 31% of Companies Block Employees From Using Social Media