Samsung schickt eine neue Generation seines Spitzen-Smartphones auf iPhone-Jagd. Das am Donnerstag Abend vorgestellte Galaxy S3 hat einen grossen Bildschirm mit einer Diagonale von 4,8 Zoll (12,2 cm) und unterstützt zumindest in einigen Ländern den schnellen LTE-Datenfunk, wie Samsung mitteilte. Die Hauptkamera hat eine Auflösung von acht Megapixeln.
Der Preis für Aktien des Sozialen Netzwerks Facebook soll zum Börsenstart zwischen 28 und 35 Dollar (gut 21 und knapp 27 Euro) liegen. Die Spanne, aus der sich ein Unternehmenswert von 70 bis 87,5 Milliarden Dollar (rund 53 bis etwa 67 Mrd. Euro) ergibt, geht aus den Börsengang betreffenden Unterlagen hervor.
Die Gewerkschaft Verdi will nun doch weiter mit der Deutschen Telekom über einen Tarifkompromiss für die 50.000 Angestellten im Deutschland-Geschäft sprechen. Die grosse Tarifkommission der Gewerkschaft habe entschieden, die Verhandlungen für die Telekom Deutschland GmbH am Montag fortzuführen, teilte Verdi am Donnerstag mit.
Nach einer weiteren Kapitalspritze von 70 Millionen Dollar ist der Anbieter des Online-Notizbuchs Evernote in den Kreis der Internet-Unternehmen aufgestiegen, die mit mindestens einer Milliarde Dollar bewertet werden.
Microsoft stellt mit der Einführung von Windows 8 "Windows Live" ein, kündigte das Unternehmen in einem Blogeintrag an. Skydrive, Mail, Kalender, Kontakte, Fotos und der Messenger werden einfach "Apps" heissen. "Windows Live" wurde erstmals am 1. November 2005 vorgestellt und wird laut Microsoft von rund 500 Millionen Menschen pro Monat genutzt.
Der serbelnde finnische Handy-Riese Nokia will in den boomenden Markt für Flachcomputer einsteigen. Tablet-Computer seien «wichtig, daher wird das angeschaut», sagte der scheidende Chef des Nokia-Verwaltungsrates, Jorma Ollila, gegenüber der «Financial Times» vom Donnerstag.
Die deutsche Workplace-Management-Spezialistin Matrix 42 und der Neuenhofer ICT-Service-Provider Xite haben eine Vertriebsvereinbarung unterzeichnet. Diese berechtigt Xite einer Mitteilung zufolge, die skalierbare «Mobile Device Management»-Lösung (MDM) von Matrix 42 in der Schweiz zu vertreiben.
Swisscom will auf 1. Juli hin die Roaminggebühren senken. Das Telefonieren mit dem Handy im europäischen Ausland soll ab dann, wie bereits vergangenen Herbst angekündigt, um weitere 5 Rappen pro Minute günstiger werden.
Die IT-Security-Spezialistin Check Point vermeldet drei Neuzugänge für die Schweiz: Die beiden Major Account Manager Christian Späni und Pino Cuccaro sowie der Security Consultant Rodney Fortune vervollständigen laut Mitteilung das Team in Zürich.
Die auf IT-Aus- und Weiterbildung fokussierte Digicomp führt neu Foundation- und Certified-Lehrgänge für Togaf (The Open Group Architecture Framework) im Programm. Bei Togaf handelt es sich um den internationalen, offenen Standard der Open Group zur Entwicklung und Umsetzung von Enterprise Architecture.
Yahoo Small Business hopes to grow by offering small businesses an integrated marketing dashboard to manage and expand their digital marketing efforts. The dashboard provides a consolidated view of a business’s marketing results and reputation.
Foursquare will charge businesses a fee of $10 to instantly verify their page online. In the past, restaurants, bars, and shops have had to mail in their application and wait for approval. The process typically took weeks to complete.
"Google drives all my traffic, now I'm screwed!” It’s a familiar refrain among small- to medium-sized businesses in the wake of Google Penguin. Learn how adding the influence of social media and public relations to your marketing mix can help.
We live in a world with no shortage of tools. We’ve assembled a list of some of our in-shop favorites tools, ranging from streamlined image editors to dynamic databases, from unassuming to in-your-face, as well as various practical uses for each.
How do start search marketing on Baidu? Here are some tips that provide insights into how to deal with Baidu on the paid search side, as well as what you need to do to be certain that your site is being listed in Baidu’s organic search results.
F-commerce seems on the decline among big brands, as major retailers forego selling through Facebook and redirect budget to their own e-commerce sites. Is F-commerce a fad and how can Facebook help e-tailers succeed in their social space?
How does Google use human raters as part of its algorithm? Do those raters have a direct affect on Google’s search results and rankings? Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts discusses search quality raters in this Google Webmaster Help video.
Calling it a "fresh, de-cluttered experience," Bing has launched a new design for its search result pages. The new design removes the left sidebar that previously contained related searches, options to refine your search and search history settings.
Those in charge of SEO for websites or brands impacted by the Penguin update are scrambling to find answers and insights in order to hopefully stay afloat. Clearly, the rules have changed. Building a business purely with SEO no longer works.
Microsoft Advertising has rebranded their small and medium business division as Bing, in an effort to help SMBs better navigate the ad buying process by bringing the familiar search user interface to the advertising service.
Assumptions, strategies, and tactics change so rapidly in our industry that it’s hard for most small businesses to keep up, let alone try to research all the latest news and advice that floods the blogosphere, so learn how to spot SEO con artists.
The new social reporting in Google Analytics provides marketers and site owners a lot of additional information, but these reports – which provide lots of bits and pieces of information, some of it useful, much of it not – fail to tell a full story.
If you're advertising mobile apps, it just got a lot easier to position your apps in front of active searchers. Not only did your marketing reach expand, but you can more easily track downloads. Here's a rundown of Google's new mobile ad options.
We may not be able to write like “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, but we all can access deep wells of creativity, intuition, and empathy. When we draw upon these wells in the service of our prospects, marketing can be a magical thing.
Do you love beer? Do you love Android? Meet KegDroid, a revolutionary new way to get your beer! Designed by a Google employee, KegDroid's design lets you select and order your beer at the click of a button and then dispenses your favorite brew.
Google has finally shut its Wave tool and told web users they can no longer access their group discussions and collaborative projects unless they use Chrome. IE and Firefox users are told hosting servers for the service have been closed completely.
The high-profile patent infringement battle between Google and Oracle has entered jury deliberations. The juror panel will now decide whether Google infringed on Oracle's Java patents in developing its Android mobile platform.
Google is changing, in the most idiotic way possible, something that has been a very treasured and fundamental tool to AdWords accounts since Day 1: Google Ad Rotation. Here are a few things PPC account managers can do moving forward.
The Google AdWords search partner network is fantastic and terrible. There is good quality traffic to be found, but Google hates you knowing what's going on. Not every site will work well, and it's tricky (not impossible) to know how to optimize.
There are three key ways to force usable, 20 result "segments" out of Google's insanely huge index: research phrases, advanced operators and tactic-specific footprints. Learn how to dig into each and build out thorough prospecting query lists.