Mellisa Tolentino
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Would You Consider A Person’s Klout Score Before Hiring?
If you’re job hunting and your potential employer asks you what your Klout score is because they’re looking to hire someone who has a Klout score above 35, would you be happy or offended? That depends on your social influence. See, Klout measures a person’s social influence across their social media sites. The more people ...
TripAdvisor Gets Ahead of the Game Through Predictive Data Analytics
TripAdvisor.com is amongst the more well-known traveling sites, providing information about vacation hotspots, cheap and affordable hotel rates, as well as other people’s reviews and comments for a particular venue. But how do they improve from here, personalizing this aggregate of data sets? By utilizing big data analytics. Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly outlines TripAdvisor’s use ...
Will Brands Go Along with Facebook’s Anti-Click Campaign?
Facebook gets the majority of their revenue on advertising but even so, the social networking giant’s advertising strategy is being questioned. Facebook is getting ready to unveil a new advertising strategy that removes the focus on “clicks”. For some time now, clicks have been the basis for determining how popular a brand is on Facebook. ...
5 Ways to Search Gmail: New Attachment Filter and More
Many of us cringe at the thought of cleaning up our e-mail inboxes, making it difficult to go back and find the items and attachments we need. Coming to our aid is a long overdue feature from Google, adding a new search filter for attachments in your Gmail account. Now you can nail down those ...
Oracle OpenWorld Day 2: Mark Hurd Talks Strategy and Innovation
Oracle’s OpenWorld 2012 kicked off last Sunday and will run through until October 4th in San Francisco. Oracle President Mark Hurd hosted the keynote event on the second day of OracleWorld. The keynote, titled Shifting Complexity, tackles how the company’s holistic, aggregate strategy for product innovation can make things simpler for customers. Hurd reiterated Oracle’s ...
Samsung to Sue Apple over iPhone 5, Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ban Lifted
Today’s mobile news roundup: Samsung sues Apple for iPhone 5; HTC announces a faster One X; and AT&T prepares to launch new prepaid plan in October. Samsung sues Apple for iPhone 5 In a never ending battle for supremacy, Samsung filed a motion against Apple’s new iPhone 5 for allegedly infringing eight of their patents. ...
Price Will be a Big Hurdle for HP’s New Windows 8 Tablet/PC Stand-In
After a number of mistrials, changed minds and fired CEOs, HP is finally looking to re-enter the tablet market. We’ve been hearing a bit about their revamped plans for the mobile industry from new CEO Meg Whitman, along with expectations for a Windows 8 tablet in the near future. But a new tablet from HP ...
Which is Better, Google or Nokia Maps?
Apple’s new Maps has managed to irritate a lot of users, and things didn’t get any better when their own CEO recommended other navigation services while they sort things out. Of course, even before Tim Cook advertised rival apps, a lot of people already took the liberty fix the problem Apple created (see a list ...
Oracle Refreshes MySQL with New Features
The Oracle OpenWorld 2012 event officially kicked off yesterday and will run through the 4th of October in San Francisco. CEO Larry Ellison kicked things off with the introduction of the latest version of its 12c database software. Oracle aims to be the ultimate cloud service as the new version launches on the three tiers of ...
Iran Lifts Ban On Some Google Services, Re-Blocks YouTube
Last week, Iran announced that they would be blocking Google’s search and e-mail service as they deploy their own domestic internet system. The domestic internet service was rolled out to government agencies and offices, and it is their aim to make it available to every Iranian by 2013. The Google block is deemed as another ...
