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Top Industry News for 8-13-10: Oracle sues Google over Android

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Published Aug. 13, 2010 at 10:04 a.m.

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Smartphones:Oracle sues Google over Android OS.Android helps boost global smartphone sales.Social Media:Delta launches ticket window on Facebook.Twitter introduces Tweet ...

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Huckabee on Social Media Stump for Deal in Georgia, but Where’s Palin?

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 4:09 p.m.

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clickz ... Sarah Palin - star endorser of Karen Handel - hasn’t made a peep about her on her powerful Facebook and Twitter pages recently, though tomorrow is election day ...

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Twitter Hires First Ad Sales Executives

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 3:37 p.m.

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clickz ... Twitter hired its first two ad sales executives, from Facebook and Yelp ...

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Article: Heavy Twitter Users Bring Social Activity to New Heights

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Published Aug. 8, 2010 at 11:01 p.m.

Daily users comment and upload content at least twice as much as average ...

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Blog: Just 16% of Brand Tweets Engage Others, Compared to 43% of Consumers’

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Published Aug. 3, 2010 at 11:01 p.m.

Marketers may not be doing enough to truly engage followers in conversations, according to a white paper on marketer and consumer Twitter usage from 360i.As reported in the eMarketer [ ... ] ...

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More shoppers turn to Facebook, Twitter for buying advice

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Published July 26, 2010 at 4:40 p.m.

Just as more of us are turning to sites like Facebook and Twitter for the news of the day, we're also looking to social networks for guidance on what to buy. That's manna to marketing folks, who no doubt will be encouraged by findings released today by Gartner research firm ... "The majority of consumers rely to some extent on social networks to guide them in their purchase decisions," said the research firm, which surveyed nearly 4,000 consumers in the last quarter of 2009 ... The growing

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Social Media in 2020 and Beyond

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Published July 9, 2010 at 9:45 a.m.

If you're one of those people who don't get all the fuss over Twitter and YouTube, hoping they'll simply go away, you may not want to read the results of a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, in partnership with Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center ... If, on the other hand, you're an eager participant in these social media outlets, or aspire to Tweet or join Facebook yourself, but fear that time has passed you by, the survey being released Friday should set your

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Gen Y unlikely to change online openness with age

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Published July 9, 2010 at 9:45 a.m.

The first generation of "digital natives," those born after 1980 who are "always connected" and share information openly and unabashedly online, are unlikely to change that behavior as they age, according to a new study ... "Older and wiser" will not necessarily equate to zipping it on the Web. If anything, Gen Y, or "Millennials," as the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project dubs the group, "are leading society into a new world of personal disclosure and information-sharing."

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TechBytes: Managing Your Online Reputation

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Published July 5, 2010 at 11:22 a.m.

As Internet users share more and more information about themselves on both social and professional networking sites, managing online reputations has become a full-time job ... "It's not just about text-based results, it's about photo and video, and real-time results on Twitter," said Mary Madden of the Pew Research Center ... Watch the full clip below: ...

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