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Unsubscribe, founded by the James Siminoff behind PhoneTag/Simulscribe has just raised an impressive $2.1 million in Series A financing – the round was led by Charles River Ventures. The start-up, which offers a quick and easy unsubscribe button next to e-mails in …
Zynga Chart Reveals what Farmville Players Knew a Long Time Ago
Earning more than one million dollars a day, the social gaming developer Zynga, named after a late dog, is on a 3-year roll, and takes the throne in more than sector. As it seems, spending $90 million a year on Facebook ads …
Corporate Blogging Begins to Match That Official FB Account
A recent eMarketer report reveals that corporate blogging has begun to spread its wings in the corporate ring. What was once considered to be a fading cyber branch of journalism and respectful coverage now spreads in the corporate sector like wild fire. …
Visa and Kiva Partner Up and Expand Virtual Microloans to the Gulf Cost
Today credit card giant Visa and microloaning website Kiva announced a partnership in its expansion further inland towards U.S small businesses. After aiding hundreds of thousands of people throughout 54 nations, Kiva (and a $1 million disbursement by Visa) begins to significantly …
New Loopt Update Brings Significant Facebook Places Integration
Loopt’s latest version that has been released today for the iPhone introduces users the freshly integrated and growingly popular Facebook Places tool. Soon to arrive to Android as well, this update marks more than another handy addition for users. This is a …
Baidu and Rakuten: Search Engine Plus Internet Company Equals e-Commerce Pushover
Chinese search engine leader Baidu had teamed up with successful Japanese internet company Rakuten to launch a new and promising online mall for the country, as reported here. The venture was officially announced by the two in January. The mall is yet …
Netflix Optimistic for 3rd Quarter, Discless on Wii & PS3
Netflix is doing fairly well. Its inventors have seen a somewhat record-breaking gain of no less than 572% as of October 15, but it did have a weak last quarter, as the $8.03 billion dollars and 18 million customers worth video giant …
RIM Expands OS6 with BB Style, Hopes for UAE
RIM has been working on significantly expanding its reachable market and customer-base for quite some time now, and after putting a whole lot of cards on the table, the company is now beginning to push forward on all fronts. The first star …
Google Launches In-Page Analytics. More Detail, Up Close.
Google announced today in its Analytics blog the launch of the new In-Page Analytics beta, enabling site owners to overlay the service on their web pages and evaluate traffic data more capably. “To make this visualization easier, some users keep the website …
In-App Purchases Doing Better than Mobile Ads for iOS
The dawn of the Smartphone era has given marketers a huge opportunity for mass profit generation, predictably via advertisement revenue. Contrary to this however, Flurry has uncovered that despite of mobile ad revenue’s prospected potential, virtual goods revenue had overwhelmingly surpassed it …