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
America’s largest cable company just got a boost on news that profits are up 30%. The profits come as Comcast saw a massive uptake of its popular broadband service and the strong partnership that it formed with NBC Universal during the Super Bowl. Net income rose to $1.224 billion, up from the $934 million that [...]
May 18th, 2012 by Anthony West
Does Wikipedia have a bias towards male editors or is it that women don’t like editing? This is the question that many are asking with the revelation that more than 90% of all editors on Wikipedia of the testosterone-laden type. The figures come from a survey conducted by Wikipedia who asked 6,500 respondents to supply [...]
May 18th, 2012 by Anthony West
Netflix is a company that allow people to watch TV episodes and a variety of movies from the comfort of their home. It is businesses like Netflix (Redbox, Blockbuster boxes, etc) that have put the typical movie rental places out of business. No one rents movies from the local Movie Gallery, Blockbuster store, or places [...]
May 18th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
Fiverr is looking to expand its reach in the micro-services space and has just received another $15 million in funding. The round was led by Accel Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners and adds to the $5 million the company received at the start of its operations. Founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Shai Wininger and Micha Kaufman [...]
May 17th, 2012 by Anthony West
Microsoft PowerPoint has long since been the standard for creating presentations that both engage and bore, but people have complained for years that PowerPoint tends to rest on the boring side. Which is why Prezi was created. The zooming presentation software allows for more dynamic presentations; objects and videos can be moved around the screen [...]
May 17th, 2012 by Anthony West
Domain Name Journal weekly comes out with the most notable sales for a given week from the various domain name sites on the Internet. It reports the top sales along with other notable information and numbers. Some of the domain name companies it reports sales from are Go Daddy, Sedo, Afternic, ICM registry and many [...]
May 17th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
If Google had seen the potential success of blending social media with healthcare it might not have discontinued its Google Health product the other day. But c’est la vie as they say, the benefits of the fusion is now falling to companies like ZocDoc. The social media themed healthcare service allows patients to search via [...]
May 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
The mobile payments processing space is looking pretty interesting now that PayPal has entered the fray. Its offering is dubbed ‘PayPal Here’ and was launched back in March of this year to compete with runaway favorite, Square. PayPal Here is no different from Square and lets small businesses handle mobile payments via Android and iOS [...]
May 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
Tweeting has become very ubiquitous in our lives but for some reason Twitter can’t seem to break out of its numbers slump. A couple months back there was talk that Twitter would break 500 million users but that prediction fell flat on its face. We now know that Twitter really has around 140 million active [...]
May 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
Sedo.com is a successful and popular domain name selling company. They sell domain names of various price ranges from a few hundred, or thousand dollars, to big 6 figure domain names. These are sold to various companies, large and small, and the individual alike. These sales also take place internationally. Sedo recently announced its sales [...]
May 16th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
There has never been a more lucrative time for spammers like now and it seems the mobile phone is the new cash cow. According to new figures from a Bloomberg report and spam expert Richi Jennings, text message spam is the fastest growing sector among spammers and increased 45% in 2011 to a staggering 4.5 [...]
May 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
Google just released its latest search engine update recently dubbed ‘Penguin’ and this has left many webmasters holding their heads. Make no mistake about it, SEO is going to become more and more important—not less as some people like to predict. This of course means that SEO oriented companies will be in high demand, hence [...]
May 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
