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BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Advertising Relearned For Mobile. Mobile Insights is the new daily newsletter from BI Intelligence that collects and delivers the top mobile strategy news.

BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Advertising Relearned For Mobile

It is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Globally Smartphone Users Spend 20% Of Their Internet Time On Mobile (MobiGyaan)Mobile community Mobango conducted a survey amongst its India, UK, US and Italy registered users and found: Smartphone users spend 20% of their internet time on mobile. Mobango Wi-Fi is the preferred choice to access Internet. Women in Western countries spend more time on mobile internet. Smartphone users have 50% more apps compared to those using a feature phone. Users trust mobile downloads but not mobile ads. That could be one of the contributing factors to what's holding back mobile advertising. If Mobile Is The Future, Why Aren't Advertisers Investing More In It? Problems In The Mobile App Discovery Landscape (Lone Wolf)One of the major problems we are seeing in the app world is discovery.

Pivotal Tracker - Features Tour. Web Conferencing. Project management software, online collaboration: Basecamp. Infographic: The 25 Best Software and Web Apps for Freelancers. Mobile SEO for Beginners: How to improve App Store Search Ranking. By Vi Tran This is a guest post by Naoki Shibata, founder of SearchMan.com, part of our 2nd accelerator batch.

Mobile SEO for Beginners: How to improve App Store Search Ranking

SearchMan helps app developers to make their apps easy to find in AppStore. SearchMan SEO tracks search rankings, analyzes keywords, competes for rankings, and optimizes everything. Follow them on Facebook and Twitter for more content. Problem: Creative app developers pursuing the huge long tail of mobile app revenue, will continue to out-innovate each other. Solution: A little known fact is that more than half the world’s smartphone users discover new apps by entering a search keyword into the search box inside the App Store. Check out SearchMan.com’s how-to guide on getting started with mobile SEO. 7 Ways to Make Money from Your Content Online. How to Add Google AdSense to Your Tumblr Blog. Top Startup Businesses for 2012. Top Startup Businesses for 2012 You want your startup to succeed, so do we.

Top Startup Businesses for 2012

In the process of funding over 2,000 new businesses in 2011 alone, we frequently get asked for input from our clients on specific businesses or industries.

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Camtasia screen recorder from TechSmith. Sell Downloads. Get Paid for Sharing Ads on Your Social Networks. The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Facebook Offers: Why you could soon be buying from your favorite brands in your News Feed. In the past 24 hours, coverage has spread across the Internet of the launch of a new feature by Facebook, one that allows businesses and brands to utilise an ‘Offers’ feature that delivers daily deals to a brand’s Page and a user’s News Feed.

Facebook Offers: Why you could soon be buying from your favorite brands in your News Feed

The new service is a twist on the traditional Daily Deals market, particularly because it allows Facebook users to remain in direct control over the offers they see. Instead of functioning as a dedicated website like Groupon, LivingSocial and AmazonOffers, Facebook has the ability to drop targeted deals into a user’s News Feed in line with status updates, photo posts, location checkins and other more social features. Can Twitter Predict the Volume and Price of a Specific Stock? In a world where everyone’s opinion is publicly recorded, it should be theoretically possible to determine the most popular concept of the moment — be it a movie, a song, a feeling or even a stock.

Can Twitter Predict the Volume and Price of a Specific Stock?

Certainly, we don’t have enough information at this point to record everyone’s fleeting thoughts, but Twitter is something that makes a good temporary approximation. And that’s what led University of California, Riverside professor Vagelis Hristidis to investigate whether Twitter sentiment could help predict the stock market. Hristidis and his team have set out to look at how Twitter activity is related to stock prices and traded volume. Specifically they look at the volume of tweets and the link between between those tweets, other users’ tweets and specific stocks. This is different than an experiment from March of 2011, where a group of researchers from Indiana University used the mood of the overall Twitter community to attempt to predict upcoming moves in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time - Tony Schwartz.

By Tony Schwartz | 8:53 AM March 14, 2012 Why is it that between 25% and 50% of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work?

The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time - Tony Schwartz

It’s not just the number of hours we’re working, but also the fact that we spend too many continuous hours juggling too many things at the same time. What we’ve lost, above all, are stopping points, finish lines and boundaries. Technology has blurred them beyond recognition. With New Tool, Visual.ly Wants To Replace PowerPoint With Infographics. BlackbaudNow: Publish a Website and Accept Donations Online. PayPal and Blackbaud have teamed up to provide a simple website to serve small and growing nonprofits.

BlackbaudNow: Publish a Website and Accept Donations Online

Point and click to create your site, with built-in donations. No hosting setup fee No monthly hosting fee You simply pay 4.95% + $0.30 / transaction Use your domain name or ours We were advised to get a web based donor management program, but they are all too big and complicated. Without spending a lot on training, you can't really use them. With BBNow, I was able to do the website, get a PayPal link, and use my database easily, with no training! Amy Pratt, The Greene School. The Donation App « WhatGives!? Do Something Good… QR-Code Generator.