Why Your Business Needs A Website To Progress. Do you remember when someone first told you that you could go onto their website for more information? I mean the very first time anyone told you that. Me neither, and it seems it was a million years ago that someone said that. The fact is that it wasn’t too long ago that almost no businesses even had websites. The e-commerce that we know today is fairly new and in its infancy. Some say that the security issues in the beginning of the world wide web kept people from really engaging in commerce on the Internet.
However, that is slowly changing and today we’re fairly sure we can be safe on the Internet when using our credit cards to purchase whatever it is that we want to acquire. Formstack put together an infographic that shows just how small businesses are using the web to find more customers and as a result, earn more revenue. The most interesting answer I found on this infographic is the one when asked why they don’t have a website. Fund-boss-made-7-billion-in-the-panic: Personal Finance News fro. In this comeback year for investors, David Tepper may have scored one of the biggest paydays of all. Mr. Tepper's hedge-fund firm has racked up about $7 billion of profit so far this year—with Mr. Tepper on track to earn more than $2.5 billion for himself, according to people familiar with the matter. That is among the largest one-year takes in recent years. Behind the wins: a bet worth billions of dollars that America would avoid a repeat of the Great Depression. Through February and March, Mr.
Tepper scooped up beaten-down bank shares as many investors were running for the exits. "I felt like I was alone," Mr. The bets paid off. Mr. Some experts predict more bad news for commercial real estate—and say that if Mr. Hedge funds, once darlings of well-heeled investors, suffered dearly in 2008, dropping 19%. A handful of funds—including Everest Capital's emerging-market funds and the stock-focused Glenview Capital—have racked up fat gains this year.
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Under Armstrong, a veteran Google ad executive who took over as CEO in March, AOL's new focus will be to provide world-class content and to offer marketers a sophisticated way to sell ads against that content. That may be an uphill battle. Schachter believes the stock price will fall before it rises. You've Got Mail! In the mid-1990s, under CEO Steve Case, AOL seemed on top of the world, surpassing rivals CompuServe and Prodigy as the top Internet-access business.
Naturally, the major old-media companies wanted a piece of the action. But the media and Internet landscape had already begun transforming. Search and Destroy The Whole World Is Watching.
Android Has Won — Time for Chrome OS to Move Along? Google with its annual developer conference, Google I/O, dominated the technology conversation last week. Whether it was taking jabs at Apple, launching a competitor to H.264 video technology or simply offering its own version of Amazon S3, the Big G didn’t disappoint its fans (though some remain skeptical of certain initiatives, such as Google TV). All that hoopla aside, the focus of the conference was Google’s Android OS and the mobile ecosystem it’s spawned.
Add Google TV to the mix and it’s safe to say that Google devoted nearly a quarter of its stage and talk time to Android. CEO Eric Schmidt, VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra and the co-founder of the Android movement himself, Andy Rubin — all waxed eloquent about the OS. Chrome, meanwhile, appeared to have become little more than an afterthought for the company. Android’s Adaptability Yes Google held a press conference where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin talked up the Chrome Web Store, but that was pretty much it. Camouflage Photography in the Animal World: 50 Astonishing Photo. Some animals have sharp teeth, some have fragile wings, some are predators, some chew on grass, but they all need to survive.
Even if harder to believe, some carnivores can be extinct pretty fast, if they don’t find an “intelligent” method of hunting. On the other hand, small animals with poor defense mechanisms need to find a smart way of surviving and hiding. Nature has found the solution: “camouflage”. The evolutionary ability of transforming or adapting to the environment to become a contained part of it. From changing colors to changing body shapes, vertebrates and invertebrates appear as if… they are not there. Nature’s Best Camouflage-Sea Dragon Camouflage Lizard Hidden Shrimp Grasshopper – Master of Camouflage Clothing Camouflage Perfect Camouflage Nature’s Camouflage Camouflage Brownish Frog Camouflaged Leaf-tailed Gecko Camouflaged Rock Grasshopper Bark Hopper Camouflage Camouflaged Spider, Montagne d’Ambre, Madagascar False Leaf Katydid, BCI, Panama Remarkable Leaf Texture Mimicry Sole.
Is Android destined to be the Windows of smartphones? In the 18 months since Android first launched, the mobile OS has gradually gained a sense of inevitability. It has reached the point where it is often talked about in the technology industry as if it is manifest destiny that Android will be the dominant platform in mobile computing. However, today's mobile market is vastly different than the PC market of the 1980s and 90s. Let's take a look at Android's and how likely it is that Android will emerge as the platform of choice. The rise of the computer phone During the first half of the last decade, the smartphone market was dominated by BlackBerry and Palm Treo (and Nokia outside the U.S.). In June 2007, Apple changed the game with the launch of the iPhone. With the iPhone, it took Apple another year to get the price down, add 3G connectivity, make it enterprise-friendly, and open it up to application developers.
A touchscreen user interfaceMobile Web capabilityAn application platform BlackBerry came out with the Storm. Android's ascent. If true, this leaked report may leave Apple & AT&T with a LOT of. Editor’s Note: The following is based on one (detailed though not necessarily factual) report that relies on one reportedly inside (yet anonymous) source at Apple. We felt that it is detailed enough to relay to our readers, and if true, raises very troubling questions that Apple and AT&T need to address to their customers.
AddictiveTips is reporting in detail that a trusted source inside of Apple Inc. has told them that Apple is not only checking for jailbroken iPhones in conjunction with AT&T through OTA (over-the-air) updates every 7-14 days – and then relocking them and putting users on a blacklist – but is also storing Facetime location data, and that the un-encrypted WiFi chats can be snooped on. Beyond all of this, the source claims that Apple/AT&T shipped some iPhone 4′s early in order to test the OTA updates. Here is a screenshot from the article of the OTA updates taken from a phone in Canada, where apparently some users are already receiving them: Update on 6/25/10. World Cup instant Twitter replay: how we did it | Help | guardia. Reading your reactions to our World Cup 2010 Twitter replay visualization made me smile.
There's no better affirmation for a web project than seeing it reach people around the world. With readers of every competing nation taking an interest, I thought it might be worth describing how we put it together. As with football, teamwork is everything. The project kicked off a few months ago with a simple but challenging brief: "Can we make a distinct and engaging representation of Twitter activity during the World Cup?
" The last few years have seen some fantastic Twitter visualizations using all sorts of approaches. Standing out would be difficult. I pondered all this on holiday and returned with a plan. The first step in making this happen was enlisting the help of our Java team. The next challenge was in some ways the most critical. As ever, having some graphics in place really got things moving. The biggest job throughout this process fell to one man. A Saudi tower: Mecca versus Las Vegas.