Facebook to Make Music-Sharing Even Simpler

Because the imaginations of those who follow tech news have momentarily been hauled away by the revelation that rosy-cheeked Mark Zuckerberg has just become the most literalist of cutthroats — he’s resorted to processing the stupendous wealth he’s amassed at the apparently still-tender and impressionable age of 27 (his birthday was a bit over two

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TweetDeck Goes to Twitter for Something Like $40 Million

The next time you mosey on over to TweetDeck, this message will greet you: “TweetDeck is now part of Twitter.” That’s because the fifteen workers comprising the London startup TweetDeck are now officially bound for Twitter’s payroll; Twitter is said to have paid $40 million or $50 million for them and their company. The application

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A Social Network for Cars? Toyota, Salesforce.com, and Microsoft Say Yes!

Japanese automaker Toyota and Salesforce.com are in the midst of perfecting a car-focused social networking platform that will enable users to, for example, get the car started in the morning or turn its seat-warming mechanism on with a few finger jabs to an iPhone, instead of the usual going outside. Microsoft, though apparently staying at

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LinkedIn Makes Bank

Stock market debutante LinkedIn was the belle of the ball on Thursday. LinkedIn kicked off its first day as a publicly traded company and made a big splash — so much so that the markets rallied and stirred in ways that harked back to the tech boom of the 90s. Those days are hardly back

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Tips to Write Blogs Keeping Search Engine Optimization in Mind

If you own a website, then one of the best ways by which you can direct traffic to your website is by maintaining and writing original content on a blog. The reason for this is because Google indexes blogs that provide content that is most useful to people who search for information using Google Search. What Google also does is also rank websites that are related to what is considered to be high-quality content written on these blogs.

And this is where Search Engine Optimization (SEO) comes into play as well, as this involves writing content specific to the needs of users who use search engines to find content for whatever purpose. So here are a few tips to write a blog keeping SEO in mind:

#1: Keywords, keywords, keywords…

If you are selling a particular product or service, remember to research the most effective keywords that are involved so that your customers can find your website and purchase your product or service. Avoid keyword stuffing as Google is very strict about content appearing natural to the user who needs it.

#2:  Keep your blog updated

One of the most important things to remember is to keep your blog updated with new posts as often as possible since Google will index these blogs immediately and throw them up as results for users who look for these services or products.

#3: Blog promotion is important

Finally, what is important to remember is that once you have an adequate amount of content on your blog, then it is time to promote your blog by using the power of social networking. One of the best ways by which you can do this is by hiring a SEO professional to help you with content creations and promotions as well.

Promising Stock Market Debut for Chinese Social Media Fixture RenRen

The U.S. has just witnessed the first IPO of a social media group — RenRen Inc. If ranked according to page views, then RenRen is the most important Chinese social network and today it made its grand debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Its underwriters were Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Morgan Stanley. The

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Bing Goes Deeper into Social Search

It seems Microsoft may be in for a much-delayed social media breakthrough with a more socially searchable Bing. Reaping some of the rewards of its recent partnership with Facebook, Bing’s search results will be featuring a searcher’s Facebook friends’ Likes and Shares. The people at Bing are describing the new search layers as “conversational,” and

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Lady Gaga Reaches 10 Million Twitter Followers: Justin Bieber and Barack Obama Follow Closely

Lady Gaga has temporarily achieved Twitter Gold. On Saturday, for the 10th million time, a person on Twitter decided to follow her. At last checking, Lady Gaga’s Twitter account had 10,068,309 followers. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Gaga, by her given name) is the first person to reach 10 million followers on Twitter. And not entirely

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Microsoft to Pay $8.5 Billion in Cash for Skype

Big money, to the tune of $8.5 billion, was on the table and Skype took it all, from Microsoft. With the deep pockets that come from being a company named Microsoft Corp., the amount paid is astounding, but not unimaginable. In fact, Microsoft paid $6 billion in 2007 to buy aQuantive, an online advertising company.

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More Facebook Litigation: Another Actor Enters the Fray

The battle rages on between Facebook and Google. Meanwhile, this connected story has been extensively covered recently, and quite periodically over the last few years, but it’s not appearing here again because of the editorial fun to be had in selecting the many distinctive poses that the Winklevoss twins, both Olympic athletes, are capable of

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