Online personalized radio service Pandora is fast becoming the go-to source for entertainment of that kind. The service now has a whopping 150 million users, many of which have joined up in recent months thanks to the surge in engagement with mobile devices. Speaking at a recent conference, Pandora CEO, Joe Kennedy gave some insight [...]
May 23rd, 2012 by Anthony West
LinkedIn is one of the fastest growing social networks around today and so far it has over 135 million users worldwide. The majority of its user base lives in the US and most are doing pretty well by most standards. A recent look into LinkedIn demographics found that most of the social professionals that hang [...]
May 23rd, 2012 by Anthony West
Traditional learning involves lots of face-to-face interaction between teachers and their students but in the last 10 years or so, all that has been tuned on its head. Students still interact with students in the classroom, but there is a growing presence of ‘online’ tuition and the ways in which students interact with their face-to-face [...]
May 23rd, 2012 by Anthony West
Blogging has gone from a small hobby to a major hobby—especially among moms. And has a recent study from H&R Block confirms, the so-called mommy blogger is becoming very influential and making lots of money doing it. The study found that 14% of all American moms with at least one child run their own blog. [...]
May 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
Video sharing app Viddy seems to be out the gate like a bullet and already has 26 million users. It was only in April that the app hit 6.5 million users so in less than a month it has added roughly 20 million users. The app is reportedly adding 500,000 users a day and looks [...]
May 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
Any SEO expert will tell you that ranking on Google’s first page is not the easiest task, and even when you do achieve a top 10 ranking, you can’t get any decent amount of traffic unless you are ranking in the top 3. All the more reason why many SEO experts will be annoyed with [...]
May 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
Apple came awfully close the other day to having more money than the US government so it should shock no-one that total revenues for 2011 was $128 billion—with a capital B! To put those earnings into perspective, Xerox recently reported first quarter revenues of $5.5 billion and many people saw that as an impressive number. [...]
May 21st, 2012 by Anthony West
In Europe (especially the UK) having food delivered is pretty much a way of life. The ‘Takeaway’ as it is called in the UK is so popular that Just-Eat.com has made a name for itself fulfilling this nice desire for consuming food. The company which by no coincidence is based in the UK has just [...]
May 21st, 2012 by Anthony West
If any browser has carved out a niche for itself in the mobile browsing space, its Opera. Its mobile offering dubbed ‘Opera Mini’ now has over 169 million users. This take up among mobile users is a stark contrast to Opera presence on the desktop market where it can barely keep pace with the likes [...]
May 21st, 2012 by Anthony West
Mark Zuckerberg and his executives have been busy with their pre-IPO road show ahead of Facebook’s big launch to raise funds on the 18th of May. There has been mixed views on how Zuckerberg has handled the road shows but overall the reception has been pretty good. The road shows are all about enticing investors [...]
May 21st, 2012 by Anthony West
There is a plethora of social media management tools on the market jostling for space and one of the prominent players is HootSuite. Known in most circles as a Twitter client, the management tool encompasses a large number of social networking platforms—all of which can be handled from a handy dashboard. HootSuite has been making [...]
May 20th, 2012 by Anthony West
Presentations are a big part of business and networking so LinkedIn’s acquisition of SlideShare comes as no real surprise. Since going public there has been a lot of expectation for LinkedIn to deliver solid results and many are calling the acquisition very good news for investors. The cost to acquire SlideShare rings in at a [...]
May 20th, 2012 by Anthony West
That Mark Zuckerberg has been sitting on a pot of gold has been obvious for quite some time. What wasn’t so obvious was how much that pot of gold is worth. Come May 18th we find out and many are predicting that on the very low side Zuckerberg could be worth at least $846 million. [...]
May 20th, 2012 by Anthony West
Merchants tired of getting burned by PayPal now have an alternative and an ally in the form of WePay, a service that promotes itself on the strength of being ‘anti-PayPal’. The company got a major boost recently with the securing of $10 in funding from Ignition Partners and existing investors, Highland Capital Partners and August [...]
May 19th, 2012 by Anthony West
The complete and utter commercialization of YouTube is here. Google is putting $200 million behind its latest offering which it is calling YouTube Brandcast. The talk surrounding the launch has been about premium content and as one writer put it; YouTube is looking to move away from “offering only a conglomeration of amateur videos and [...]
May 19th, 2012 by Anthony West
Apple might be the new media and Wall Street darling, but arch rival Microsoft is no slouch among users. The software giant which is gearing up to release Windows 8, revealed some numbers about usage of its software applications suit dubbed Windows Live. There are an estimated 500 million users of the Windows Live suite [...]
May 19th, 2012 by Anthony West
Buffer is a relatively new company and feature that allows people to manage their social media accounts in an easy, convenient way. “Buffer is designed for marketers and other folks who want to maintain an active social media presence without actually spending every second of their day on Facebook and Twitter. You can load the [...]
May 19th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
We here at SiteTrail follow Salesforce.com very closely and in the last few months we’ve written a few stories about the company. Almost all of them has been about some acquisition of some kind and here we are again covering yet another acquisition. This time Salesforce has splashed out to acquire Stypi, a company that [...]
May 18th, 2012 by Anthony West
