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Apple Said to Fire Maps Manager After Flaws Hurt IPhone 5
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Klout raises ~ $30 million at $200 million valuation
Klout , the startup that calculates how socially influential you are on the web, has raised a heaping pile of capital -- or so we hear from multiple sources. We hear from a source with 90% certainty that Klout has raised ~ $30 million at a $200 million valuation. Kleiner Perkins led the round with participation from IVP . Four other involved sources gave no comment. Klout was founded in 2008 by Joe Fernandez and Binh Tran.
Disruptive mobile payments company Square is making a number of announcements today relating to growth and new user features. First, the company is dropping its new user limits. For background, Square offers an iPhone, Android and iPad app which allows merchants to process and manage credit card transactions with a handy little credit card swiping device that plugs into the headset/microphone jack.
Square Processing $2B In Payments Per Year, Has Signed Up 800K Merchants
Facebook releases its official iPad app
Facebook has finally revealed its official iPad app. This long awaited tablet version comes with multi-conversation chat, a photo browser etc. Persistent access to notifications, messages, and requests will also allow users to check for new alerts while bookmarking their previous place elsewhere in the app.
Netflix Abandons Plan to Rent DVDs on Qwikster
7:19 p.m. | Updated The New Coke experiment lasted less than three months. Qwikster did not even make it out of the bottle.
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Levchin and Gurley Say That Next Big Company Will Capture The Interest Graph
Yesterday, at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, Googler and PayPal founder Max Levchin and Benchmark GP Bill Gurley discussed “game-changing technology” and the future of the Web. Emblematic of today’s mindset, they attacked this rather large topic by comparing the strengths and objectives of Google and Facebook, using the latter’s jaw-dropping stats (500+ million users, 1 in every 13 people on Earth logs into Facebook each day) and its promotion of the social graph as a measure of what’s to come. Levchin said that Facebook is fast becoming the new social white pages, i.e. when you don’t know where someone is on the Web, you go to Facebook to find and connect with them. But, in addition to that, he says, the social networking giant is really “the rich white pages,” where you not only locate someone but have the added benefit of finding out what they like, what they read, what their favorite movies are, and so on.
Un taux de rebond qui excède 50% est mauvais signe - taux de rebond
Le taux de rebond est le rapport entre le nombre d'internautes qui ne visitent qu'une page d'un site et le nombre de visiteurs total . Si sur la page d'arrivée le visiteur clique sur un lien sortant, un "mailto", se rend sur une page de formulaire, ou télécharge une brochure, qu'il sort du site sans consulter une deuxième page, il passe généralement en taux de sortie. Si un taux de rebond élevé est une norme pour certains sites d'information tels que des dictionnaires, annuaires, ou des blogs, il est généralement mauvais signe pour des sites média avec un lectorat fidèle ou les marchands qui invitent à l'action . Il traduit alors une mauvaise interaction entre les internautes et l'éditeur. Le taux de rebond varie fortement d'un secteur à l'autre et d'un site à l'autre.
The Mashable Awards , our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is entering its final round. After receiving 700,000 nominations, we've narrowed down the 40,000+ nominees to just five finalists per category. You have from now until December 15 to pick the winners. If you have questions about the Mashable Awards and the list of finalists, please post them to our GetSatisfaction page . Here is the full list of the finalists in each category.
Awards: The Full List of Finalists
I’ve caught on to this SlideShare presentation fairly late, so there’s a chance you’ve already seen it (it’s garnered nearly 50,000 views so far), but it’s definitely worth sharing here. The presentation was made by Nick De Mey from Board of Innovation , which does a phenomenal job analyzing and visualizing business models in a wide range of industries. For an example, check their recent look at Newsgrape , a startup I’m personally very curious about.
10 Business Models That Rocked 2010
Pendant l'été, Emailvision est devenu proporiété de Francisco Partners , un fonds d'investissement américain spécialisé dans les nouvelles technologies. Celui-ci a racheté 58,9 % du capital de l'éditeur de solutions d'e-mail marketing. Les dirigeants Nick Heys et Guy Porré ainsi que les fonds Sofinnova et Seventure ont cédé leurs parts . En prenant en compte un pacte d'actionnaires, Francisco Partners contrôlerait 75,9 % du capital.
Emailvision acquis par Francisco Partners - Principales acquisitions de l'e-business en 2010
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Infographie : les marques les plus virales en 2010
La fin d’année approche et les bilans aussi, après le lip dub reprenant tous les buzz de l’année , voici une infographie qui revient sur les marques les plus virales en 2010. On retrouvera donc les marques et personnes qui ont été les plus vues sur le net, mais aussi celles qui ont été le plus partagées sur les réseaux sociaux ( Facebook et Twitter ). Vous avez aimé cet article ? InactifAugmenter son taux de transformation | Buzzinessman, blog e-commerce
Hello à tous & toutes ! Je viens de retrouver un petit article rédigé par Arnaud, sur son blog . Dans cet article, Arnaud recense 9 astuces pour augmenter le taux de conversion de votre boutique en ligne. Mais euh, pour les novices ? Qu’est-ce donc que le taux de conversion ?Patents on group shopping? Yep. A patent battle has erupted between startup MobGob and Chicago-based Groupon, one of the highest fliers in the fast-growing world of daily-deal sites . Groupon filed a patent lawsuit against MobGob in Chicago yesterday. It’s a counter-attack against MobGob, which started the fight when it sued Groupon in California, together with a shell company called CY Technology. They accuse Groupon of infringing a patent they were issued in March called “Method of Community Purchasing Through the Internet.”