Samsung chairman Lee Kun-Hee has indicated that the Korean electronics giant will seek to acquire new startups, make key investments and develop new products to reduce a stagnation in its growth, the...

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Last week, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney published a report identifying that Chinese suppliers of Kindle hardware are also in preparations to build an Amazon Kindle Phone.  This comes soon after Amazon's launch of their $200 Kindle Fire device and signals that Amazon is serious about extending their reach to customers to include not just the content they consume, but the hardware upon which they consume it.  This is a transformation for the company and signals the potential for a transformation [...]

Read More: Does Amazon Still Have Growth Potential?

Amazon is a household word these days. It's recent release of the Amazon Kindle may signal it's transition into a new stage, and it could become as essential a word as "Apple".  What's not as well known, is the story of its growth in the last 17 years.


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This guest post is by Danny Iny of firepolemarketing.com. Everyone is looking for the best strategy for growing a blog. Is it SEO? PPC? CPV? Guest posting? Twitter? Facebook? CommentLuv? Networking? Attending conferences? Writing great content? The list goes on—I could fill a page if I had to, and I’ll bet that you could, too. [...]

Read More: The Best Blog Growth Strategy is to Say Thank You … a Lot!

This guest post is by Aman Basanti of Ageofmarketing.com. Since launching my blog on the psychology of buying in mid-May, I have often wondered whether I am missing something; whether there is a secret to growing the traffic on my blog that I do not know about. Am I not commenting on the right blogs? [...]

Read More: The Secret to Explosive Blog Growth

Japan has played a key role helping Twitter grow and develop across Asia according to company co-founder Jack Dorsey, who spoke at the AsiaD conference in Hong Kong Day today....

Read More: Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Asia growth, Tamagotchis and competing against China’s weibos

This guest post is by Srinivas Rao of The Skool of Life. The idea of interviewing people might give you the jitters. It might make you feel like you’re standing naked in front of your elementary classroom with nothing intelligent to ask or say. But the only way you’re ever going to find out is [...]

Read More: 7 Ways Interviews Can Skyrocket Blog Growth

The size of online video is growing at a rapid pace—it has tripled in size since 2003, more people are watching online video every day and people are craving longer and more professional content on the web.  I had the opportunity to ask Dan Goodman and Bill Masterson, co-founders of digital entertainment company Believe Entertainment, about their take on the appeal web video and what they think is in store for the future of web series.  Read on to find out more.


Read More: Believe Entertainment Co-Founders On The Growth & Future Of Web Series [Interview]

By now, you’ve probably heard of Google+, the new social network created by Google that has taken the internet world by storm. What you may not know is that the platform is already considered the fastest growing of its kind. It took both Facebook and Twitter well over two years to reach the milestone of [...]

Read More: Does the Impressive Growth Rate of Google+ Make it a Competitor Against Facebook and Twitter?

‘Checking in' to TV shows and other forms of media quickly evolved from the success of location-based services like Foursquare. However, it's not quite captured the public's imagination in quite the same way. Now prominent media checkin service GetGlue has published some new stats which show that perhaps it would be wrong to write off the idea just yet.The startup says that June, July and August this year combined saw a 130% increase in the number of checkins being made by its users, helpi [...]

Read More: Media checkins more than a fad? GetGlue see 130% growth in activity in 3 months

Exclusive - Talk about a halo effect. Kik, a developer of cross-platform mobile communication apps, says something really strange happened when they launched their Windows Phone 7 application last June: user growth across the iOS and Android platform both accelerated significantly.

Turns out every registered user of the Windows Phone 7 Kik Messenger app is 'worth' 2.53 users (see explanation on methodology and accompanying image after the jump).

Read More: Why Kik Loves Windows Phone 7 (Spoiler: It Boosts Android And iOS User Growth)

Christopher MuhrGroupon needs to boost its domestic sales ahead of its public offering. The daily deals website is turning to executives from Citydeal, the European business it purchased last year, to rectify the slowing growth in its domestic business.


Read More: Groupon Turns to Citydeal Team to Rectify Slow Growth

According to a recent data released by ComScore, both Facebook and Twitter showed a record number of unique visitors in July. The data revealed that Facebook and Twitter grew by 11% and 32% respectively in terms of unique visitors.

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Microblogging platform Tumblr is pursuing venture capital firms for another generous amount of money at a very substantial valuation.


Read More: Tumblr Looking at $800 Million Valuation for Growth Funding

"When you started blogging for money, what amount of traffic were you aiming for?" This was a question asked of me recently in conversation by a newer blogger. The reason they asked was that they were wanting to come up with a number to aim for, at which they knew they could become a full-time [...]

Read More: Specific Targets vs. Sustained Growth: Blogging Goals

Celebrities and Twitter have gone hand in hand from the very early days of Twitter, when it became clear how celebrities could use their followings to promote new products or launches. We’ve had celebrity battles on Twitter between Oprah and Ashton Kutcher, celebrities in trouble on Twitter and more than a few high profile celebrity impersonators. But the power of Twitter for celebrities is extending far beyond building a reach for their own work, into supporting other businesses in return for f [...]

Read More: How Fab.com uses Twitter and celebrities for massive growth