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Continuing our series on The Board Of Directors , this week I'll talk about the role of the Board Chair.
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According to a new study released by social media management company Vitrue , Facebook Fans are valued at $3.60 a piece in earned media for big brands. When scaled to Fan Pages with one million Fans, that equates to $3.6 million annually — and Vitrue says that this is just the tip of the iceberg. As more brands and companies start to make real investments in social media, having a handle on what kind of value various platforms can offer becomes extremely important.
Facebook Fans Valued at $3.60 Each [STATS]
More Absurd Social Media Analysis - The Value Of A Fan
I wrote the other week that the idea of time normalization in social media is a fallacy. But it goes further than just time being a fallacy. The marketing industry is obsessed with looking for normalizations everywhere .core
This report is an in-depth financial evaluation of the Top 100 largest Beverage companies around the World. Using the unique Plimsoll method of analysis, each of the top 100 Global Beverage organisations is individually assessed and ranked against each other and compared to industry averages. Using the most up-to-date financial information available, the two-page analysis provides detailed financial analysis for each organisation, including details of;
Report: Top 100 Beverage Manufacturers Analysis - Global (PMS01793) from ReportBuyer.com
Profiles of 50 major appliance manufacturers worldwide - Market Research Kitchen, Bathroom, Appliances Report by CSIL
The total turnover of the analyzed companies is worth around Eur 587 billion, including Euro 125 billion of the major appliances considered in this report: refrigerators and freezers, washers and driers, dishwashers, hoods, cooking appliances, microwave ovens, air conditioners, vacuum cleaners. Considering the country of the headquarters, 11 companies are Chinese, 6 Americans, 6 Italians, 14 of other European countries (including Turkey), 13 among Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and India.
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2011 Trends
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This post by 500 Overlord Dave McClure was originally published on Reuters . No apologies for shameless plugs and links on several of our 500 Startups we believe embody these trends. 1. (Way too many) Groupons, social games and photo-sharing apps Unimaginative VCs — which is to say, all of us — tend to start the new year off throwing good money after bad on last year’s tired and expired ideas. 2011 will be no exception for “innovation imitation” with more group-buying ecommerce plays, more social game startups, and even more ways to do photo-sharing on Facebook and Twitter, now new and improved with 37 shades of yellow-gray filters.
Top 10 Tech Investing Trends For 2011 | 500 Startups
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News
Samsung Mobile’s Vice President of Design, Lee Minhyouk, was recently profiled by Reuters, and while there’s no new information in there regarding upcoming products, it’s still a damn good interview that we recommend everyone with any interest whatsoever in the mobile should read. Here’s a few highlights: Christian Lindholm, Chief “Innovation Officer” at Fjord, explained Samsung’s current situation beautifully: “Samsung is like a fantastic soap maker.
Using Google to Tell Real Science from Fads | Mind Matters | Big Think
Most hot ideas and discoveries fade with time. But some scientific papers are genuine breakthroughs, whose importance only increases as the decades pass. This one , published in Science last week, which describes a database of words from millions of books digitized by Google—4 percent of all books ever printed—could be one of the big ones. It's a fabulous source of ideas and evidence for theories about society, and it's fabulously democratic. Google offers a handy analyzer, the Ngram Viewer , which anyone can use to test an idea.Vitamins or Pain Killer? What exactly are you solving?
So what are you building? A vitamin tablet or a pain killer? i.e. a ‘nice to have’ product or ‘need to have’ one?
Your Internet of Things and Smart Systems — CIO Dashboard
I’ve seen the number 4.6 billion pop up a few times lately. Any ideas? It’s the approximate number of mobile phones globally which is about 69% of the worlds population. It’s the explosion of phones, particularly smart phones that are internet addressable, that is pushing the limits of the internet itself .Imagine a small chip you could plug into any device in your home that would enable it to communicate with your web-based electricity and device management dashboard.