News tagged with social marketing

Zynga partners with toy maker Hasbro

Old school toy maker Hasbro and online social game star Zynga on Thursday announced a partnership to mesh the Internet firm's hits with real-world products.

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Facebook sees slowing growth

Few experts were surprised when Facebook disclosed in its recent IPO filing that its user growth had slowed in the U.S. and Canada. But a deeper look at Facebook's user numbers shows its growth is also slowing ...

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Firms' own social networks better for business than Facebook

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using Facebook and Twitter may be good for a company's bottom line, but firms can rake in even bigger profits if they have their own virtual brand community, says a University of Michigan ...

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Investors clamor for Facebook's IPO

Wall Street is about to get Facebook fever. The social networking giant with nearly 1 billion users is expected to file papers any day now to sell stock to the public. The timing stems partly from federal rules that would ...

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created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Calif. stands to reap windfall from Facebook IPO

What's good for Facebook and its employees could be very good for California's treasury.

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Game giant Zynga on track for December IPO: report

Online games giant Zynga is on track for a stock market debut in mid-December, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

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created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Internet stock slips raise fears of new bubble

Quick cooling of hot stock market debuts by Internet darlings such as Groupon has fed fears of another speculative bubble as social networking star Facebook prepares to go public.

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Swedish town eyes digital age with Arctic data centre

Perched near the Arctic Circle, the Swedish town of Luleaa hopes that a massive data centre for US social networking giant Facebook will launch the vibrant industrial region into the digital age as a European ...

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created Nov 27, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Big payouts from startups excite Silicon Valley

Everyone dreams of striking it rich - and what they would do with such a windfall. A new house? A fancy car? Maybe designer clothes selected by a personal shopper. For some in Silicon Valley, those wishes may soon come true.

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created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The modeling of multiple relationships in social networks

A study conducted by Columbia Business School's Prof. Asim Ansari, William T. Dillard Professor of Marketing, Marketing, and Oded Koenigsberg, Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business, Marketing, alongside ...

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created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Teenagers who 'want to be famous' face poorer job prospects in later life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Teenagers who have unclear career aspirations, or whose ambitions are mismatched with their educational expectations spend more time in unemployment as adults and achieve lower wages according ...

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created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Web portal Sina posts $336 million quarterly loss

(AP) -- Sina Corp., a popular Chinese web portal operator, sank to a loss in the latest quarter due to writedowns on investments in two online businesses but revenues and microblog traffic were up.

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Siri a challenge to Google search: Eric Schmidt

The voice-activated Siri assistant on Apple's iPhone 4S is a direct challenge to Google's search engine, chairman Eric Schmidt said.

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Haas study sheds eerie light on fright and financial decision making

Watching a horror movie can scare you into selling your stocks earlier than you would have otherwise. That’s the frightening evidence shown in a series of studies by Associate Professor Eduardo Andrade and Chan Jean ...

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created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Eyeing Asian market, LinkedIn launches in Japanese

(AP) -- LinkedIn Corp. on Thursday launched its online professional networking service in Japanese, the first Asian language platform for the rapidly growing company as it pushes to expand in the region.

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