January 2012
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Jan 28th
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Jan 17th
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How Facebook's Expected $100 Billion IPO Breaks... →
Rumors are flying about Facebook Inc. going public this year. So, just how much money is the world’s largest social network worth? Reports project that Facebook will go public some time between April and June. The company itself has remained hush-hush about the initial public offering.
Jan 13th
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Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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CoverHound Names Keith Moore to Board of Directors
SAN FRANCISCO, California — CoverHound today announced the naming of Keith Moore to its board of directors. Moore is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at AcademixDirect, Inc., after prior roles as General Manager at LendingTree and IAC, and Senior Vice President of the 2008 IAC spinoff Tree.com. “We’re thrilled to welcome Keith to the team. He’s an insurance industry veteran and an...
Dec 14th
November 2011
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North Carolina Tar Heels face Michigan State today at 7pm ET / 4pm PT on the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego, Ca. North Carolina has a ton of famous alumni attending the game, including former basketball standouts such as James Worthy, Vince Carter, and Tyler Hansbrough, but the list of celebrities doesn’t stop there. Five for Fighting and Billy Currington are the co-headliners for a...
Nov 11th
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CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Diversity in Silicon Valley →
cnnmoneytech: We hear lots of anecdotes about the difficulties that minorities face in the tech industry, but hard numbers on the issue are scarce. We spent more than two months trying to get data, and we posted a piece about the results this morning.
Nov 9th
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Google+ Launches Branded Pages →
Already using Google+? Follow Mashable for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates. Google has finally unveiled brand pages for Google+, allowing businesses and brands to join Google’s social network. “So far Google…
Nov 8th
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Google Direct Connect Hooks Search and Google+... →
Google has rolled out a new feature called Direct Connect, which makes it dead simple for users to find and follow brands on Google+ via Google Search. Whenever a user wants to find a brand on Google+, all they have to do is type “+” in Google Search, followed by the brand or business …
Nov 8th
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October 2011
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“You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much...”
– Steve Jobs
Oct 27th
September 2011
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“When we listen, we acknowledge others’ experience and expertise. When we...”
– Whitney Johnson, founding partner of Rose Park Advisors (@johnsonwhitney) in a post on HBR.org
Sep 30th
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Sep 16th
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August 2011
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“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of...”
– Steve Jobs, of Apple & Pixar, in a Wired Magazine interview in February 1996
Aug 25th
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Aug 15th
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“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained FIVE. I never spent so pleasant a...”
– Mark Twain (S.L. Clemens) quote about Maui
Aug 15th
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Aug 15th
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The CMO Challenge: Survey of 300 Marketing Execs... →
Agencies are falling short based on a survey of 300 marketing Executives.
Aug 4th
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The Power of Like: How Brands Reach and Influence... →
While most brand marketers today are intensely focused on their social media efforts, many express frustration at the inability to quantify its value or incorporate it into their marketing mix. comScore Social Essentials is a breakthrough social measurement product that helps marketers do just that.
Aug 2nd
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“Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Aug 2nd
July 2011
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“Amazingly, more than 40% of IT projects still fail to deliver the expected...”
– Aaron Levie, the founder and CEO of Box.net in a guest author article on TechCrunch
Jul 10th
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Jul 9th
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“What to do with a mistake? Recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”
– Dean Smith - legendary UNC Tar Heel Basketball Coach
Jul 9th
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June 2011
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“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in...”
– Albert Einstein (via 808girlmedia)
Jun 25th
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“  MacRumors has discovered a new addition to the iTunes App Store update page...”
– Apple to offer automatic App Store app updates in iOS with ‘Automatic Download’
Jun 4th
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May 2011
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The most valuable Brands in the world - In-Depth... →
The Top 50 most valuable Brands in the world. Apple is now #1 in 2011.
May 15th
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Google I/O in a Nutshell: All the News You Might... →
Google I/O 2011 has officially ended, so here’s a quick “all killer, no filler” recap of everything you need to know that happened at the conference this year. The event was full of announcements, including big pieces of Android news, updates on Google TV, announcements for the super-slick Ch…
May 15th
Twitter Users Are Way Bolder Than Facebook Users... →
Have you ever noticed that the phrase “Follow me on Twitter” seems a lot more common than “Friend me on Facebook”? Alterian and Sevans Strategy decided to look into this phenomenon. The two tracked 3.3 million such “asks” in March by running keyword searches on various platforms including Flic…
May 15th
April 2011
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Apr 25th
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ApartmentFinder Appoints Trish Moore National...
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA — (Marketwire - April 5, 2011) - Trish Moore has joined Apartment Finder as National Accounts Director, West. In this new role, Ms. Moore will be responsible for driving the continued growth of Apartment Finder’s National Accounts through customer acquisitions, dedicated support management and the promotion of its CommunitySherpa social media marketing service, print...
Apr 6th
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XA.net First to Offer Multivariate Social Media...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire - 04/06/11) - XA.net, Inc., the leading provider of data-driven social advertising optimization, today announced that its optim.al multivariate ad platform is now an approved Facebook API Tools Vendor. Optim.al is the first multivariate social advertising platform which allows users to efficiently test Facebook ad variations, find the right audience and...
Apr 6th
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March 2011
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“It is not that we are short of time…. It is the way that we treat time,...”
– Richard Koch on understanding the 20% of what you do which produces 80% of your achievements.
Mar 18th
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Mar 6th
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Happy 80th Birthday to Dean Smith! 
Mar 1st
February 2011
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Volkswagen Super Bowl Ad with little Darth Vadar… brilliant commercial worthy of Super Bowl hype. Go VW!
Feb 5th
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January 2011
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Jan 28th
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Jan 23rd
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AcademixDirect Earns LeadsCouncil LEADER Award
Mountain View, Ca. – AcademixDirect earned the “Best Customer Service” LEADER award from LeadsCouncil, the largest independent industry organization focused on online lead generation.  The LEADER Awards is a new annual awards program designed to showcase the leading companies in online lead generation in three categories – education, lending and technology partners. AcademixDirect CEO Karen C....
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December 2010
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November 2010
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October 2010
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