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iFive: CIA War Lawsuit, Apple's Media Focus, Twitter's Adverts, Windows Phone Dates, Hurt Locker Anti-Pirate Setback

It's just another manic Monday. But before you throw yourself into the joys of work, and those early week emails, here's the early news, digested for your convenience.READ»

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Only 13% of Adults Pay for Apps

A new study offers insight into how unpopular the app market is for adult cell phone owners.READ»

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Tween Girls Blaze Through 100 Texts a Day: Pew Internet Report

Texting is the preferred method of communication between American teenagers, the latest Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project report has found--and they're sending and receiving thousands a month. Eight hundred ...READ»

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Google Your Web Analytics

Primary Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo and BING have customized their sites to accommodate the 240-million American consumers performing local searches daily. Initial results displayed on all major search engines are local ...READ»

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Study Confirms Social Media Transforming Business Advertising

New social media data released by SustainableVirtualBiz.com confirms the Internet has surpassed print newspapers and radio, as American’s primary information source. Only local and national television led the Internet as ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Does Being Old Really Make You a Republican?

Do our politics really vary wildly, as we progress from being scrappy, iconoclast teens to grumpy grandparents?READ»

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Internet Marketing Tops Newspaper and Radio Media

The new study shows the internet has surpassed print newspapers and radio, as American’s primary information source. Overall, 46% use four to six different types of media daily. Only local and national television lead, the Internet ...READ»

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Twitter Marketing Study

Twitter users are shown to communicate extensively via mobile devices. Twitter users are more likely to consume news and information on these devices as well. For many Twitter users, learning about and sharing relevant and recent ...READ»

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Pew Survey Finds Local TV News More Popular Than Online News; Nation's TV Anchors Relieved

The Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project conducted a survey to find out how Americans get their news, and the results are actually a bit surprising at times--especially the fact that both local and national TV ...READ»

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The Future of the Internet, Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Report

The Pew Research Center teamed up with Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center to survey 895 experts on the future of the Internet--and at the forefront of the discussion is the sticky topic of anonymity.READ»

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Health Insurance Reform EasyToInsureME FEBRUARY 5 2010

Despite proclaiming to focus on other issues, such as the economy and jobs, President Barack Obama injected new energy into the health insurance reform debate this week. READ»

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Pew Survey: Teens Love Facebook, Hate Blogging, Are Always Online, and Don't Use Twitter

Everybody goes online, everybody has a cell phone, and kids hate blogging and Twitter, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. The findings show that the Internet isn't just ...READ»

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Internet Marketing Guide To Drive Consumer Traffic

Market research studies and proven industry ROI supported by The Pew Research Center show that 79% of all adults and youth in the United States use the Internet for social networking, retail shopping, education, and ...READ»

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Sustainable Internet Marketing 80% Revenue Growth

Today, we find the age of the print advertising and media has truly become a thing of the past declining over 40% (2009), now replaced with search engine optimization (SEO) content, Twitter, Facebook, Fast Company, ClickAds, backlinks, and meta-tags among other techniques designed to generate rapid exposure to the over one billion people worldwide that rely on access to Internet connections.READ»

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Internet Marketing Five Steps To Increase Revenue

Recent studies supported by The Pew Research Center show that 79% of all adults in the U.S. use the Internet for social networking, retail shopping, education, and broadcast news sources versus only 46% in the year 2000. Further, we find 56% of Internet users are wirelessly connected versus 0% in the year 2000. This dynamic mobile integration has only begun spawning the ability for small business entrepreneurs to compete worldwide with breakthrough innovations for efficient cost controls savings of over 45% using new virtual services and (SaaS) cloud computing technology from geographically dispersed locations. Read more...READ»

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Business Search Engine Optimization Google, Twitter, Facebook - Growth Explodes

Business Search Engine Optimization Google, Twitter, Facebook - Revenue Stimulus Package reports Sustainable Virtual Services over 80% revenue growth offering companies 45% cost saves as print media declines over 40% (2009). The innovative new social media package includes search engine optimization (SEO) content, ClickAds, backlinks, and meta-tags among other techniques designed to generate rapid exposure to the over one billion people worldwide that rely on access to Internet connections.READ»

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Women Flock to Social Networks: Will They Dump Dating Sites to "Make Friends" Safely?

Recent data shows that the number of women logging on to social-networking sites far exceeds the number of men. Information is Beautiful recently presented the information, as gathered by Google Ad Planner.  LinkedIn and YouTube ...READ»

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Work/Life: Tax This!

  A Pew Research Center Poll reports that Americans believe cheating on your taxes is only nine percent more despicable than cheating on your spouse.  Nine percent!  How are we ever going to get the balance ...READ»

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Does Ethnocentricity Sell? Part 2: Niche Media

February and Black History Month are just about over, so, building upon my last post about Black History Month and advertising, I'd like to discuss the topic of ethnicity in niche media markets. Advertising tied to Black ...READ»

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An Authenticity Timeline

From Disney's opening of Main Street USA in 1955 to user-generated content, here's a look at how authenticity has evolved over time.READ»

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America's Yang Has a Yen for Asia's Yin

At a time when much of the world seems to be wary of America's growing dominance, Asia has found a way to send its yin to satisfy America's yang.READ»

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Weathering the Storm

Weather.com is one of the Web's most unlikely success stories. It has parlayed its loyal following and its philosophical take on the weather into a site that is on course to attract 3 billion page views this year.READ»

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Leadership: Worldwide Anti-US Feelings Suggest Troubling Trend

Anyone that travels the global marketplace knows that negative views of the US are widely held. What often surprises people is the nations in which the population tends to view the US unfavorably. A massive global poll of 45,000 ...READ»

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MySafety: Teen Privacy on MySpace

In the era of social networks, many media outlets have focused on issues of privacy and it is not uncommon to hear older adults aghast at what kids or younger adults like myself make available as public information. Kids are putting ...READ»