Category Archives: Business

LinkedIn marks 200 million members milestone

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Stefano

As reported by SearchEngineWatch, LinkedIn has just reached the 200 million members milestone, almost one-fifth of Facebook users and as much as Twitter. How does a professional and job-oriented social network stack up against the current economic downturn and unemployment … Continue reading →

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Xmas 2012 version of a Reindeer Race? Social with Facebook, ‘real’ with Arduino!

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Stefano

Australian-based agency VML created this XMas-themed race with some technical and social cool elements! Reindeer Race allows you to race your… reindeer (four available) and race against other people or some bots (according to who’s online). The cool fact is … Continue reading →

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The future of shopping and online retailers – according to Newsweek

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Stefano

Newsweek’s current issue features a nice story by Megan McCardle about shopping, selling and the future of retailers – online too. The article deals with Amazon, Best Buy and a lot more. Sales were $12.1 billion in the third quarter … Continue reading →

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Walmart e-Commerce: a pretty interesting video

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Stefano

Walmart e-Commerce from Davis Elen Advertising on Vimeo. DE shares the stage with Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Celine Dion and Lionel Richie. Some of entertainment’s biggest stars performed at the 2012 Walmart shareholders’ meeting. And Davis Elen was part of … Continue reading →

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Twitter Statistics 2012 by Beevolve: amazing results

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Stefano

As we’re reaching the end of 2012, we’re getting more and more “Year-stats”: social analysis tool Beevolve brings us a complete survey of more than 35 million Twitter accounts and some results are quite amazing. US Twitter users are 50/50 … Continue reading →

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Apple’s new Spaceship Campus: some details and some fun

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Stefano

As reported by Wired (and several others) the Apple’s galactic headquarters will house nearly 13,000 astronauts -er, employees by 2015. This is what it will look like: And this, according to joyoftech.com, is what’s inside (of course, these are just … Continue reading →

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QR Code Shopping in subway stations in Milan, Italy: klikkapromo.it introduces virtual supermarkets

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Stefano

On January I wrote about South Korea’s Tesco big hit with QR Code shopping concept. Today I spotted in Milan, Italy, a similar idea where an italian discount-hunting website, klikkapromo.it, is promoting several goods along with QR-Code. The idea is … Continue reading →

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Lecture and Speech Distribution on Mobile: an article by Social@Ogilvy

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Stefano

An interesting article from Social@Ogilvy on Pinterest about Mobile distribution of speech and lectures – and some hints for B2B podcasting too!

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Newsweek: after 80 years says farewell to paper – will be online only

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Stefano

Sign of the times – as they say. Newsweek, after 80 years, will cease publishing on paper and will survive in the online version only. According to Bloomberg, Tina Brown, current editor-in-chief, has tried almost everything to keep it alive: … Continue reading →

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What will the office and working environment be like in the future?

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Stefano

LinkedIn created this infographic from a global survey. According to LinkedIn this is how the working environment will be in the near future – or already is. Fax machines are dead – so long, I’ll never miss them! [Via TechRepublic]

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