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Recruiting the Best Startup Team is Crucial
I've been thinking a bit this past week about startup teams and what makes them work (or not work). Most people that are in and around startups will readily agree that recruiting the best team possible is critical to success.
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Date: 2008-08-20

Important Corporations Taking Another Look At Tablet PCs
Judging by the latest rumors, it could be an interesting couple of years for tablet PC fans. Whispers concerning a tablet Mac and a tablet version of the Eee PC are making the rounds, and there's more reliable information from Microsoft about multi-touch displays.
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Date: 2008-05-29

Colorado Spammer Sentenced To Prison
A Colorado man who ran a large spam operation has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $714,139 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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Date: 2008-04-30

The Power Of Scripting Sales In CRM
CRM Daily had an interesting piece on the power of scripting sales. The article's main focus was on how to disqualify bad prospects quickly but it made me think about the power of Enterprise Decision Management or EDM to improve sales scripts.
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Date: 2008-04-24

Yahoo Canada Makes Deal With Canoe
Yahoo Canada has just entered a strategic alliance with another company, and the company, in typical press release-ese, calls itself "a leading local and national interactive media provider of news, entertainment and services." Yet in what has to be an example of Canadian humor, the company's name is Canoe.
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Date: 2008-01-15

Facebook Limits Applications' Linking
Facebook applications can be bad enough when they're upfront about their identities; getting tricked into installing them is the last thing (aside from various privacy violations) that any user needs.
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Date: 2008-01-02

Tips For Startups Can Apply To All
If you've ever trained a newbie, you know that there's a lot of routine stuff you'll sigh your way through. Questions or comments may bring up entirely new ideas, however, and it's for this reason that many businesses, whether they're new or old, can learn from tips for startups.
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Date: 2007-12-27

Email Fading From Use Among The Young
I tend to blink a few times upon receiving a handwritten letter, but there's an increasing realization that really young people - and I'm only in my 20s - might have the same reaction to an email.
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Date: 2007-11-20

Salesforce Signs "Most Important CRM Agreement"
Citigroup and Salesforce.com are both big companies, and a new deal between them isn't insignificant, either - Citigroup chose Salesforce to provide software to 30,000 financial advisors.
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Date: 2007-11-16

Google Gears Up For Australian Election
As much as we're bombarded with political claptrap in America, elections may be an even bigger deal in Australia, where voting is compulsory.
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Date: 2007-11-15

CFO Of Microsoft Discusses Facebook Deal
Chris Liddell, who serves as Microsoft's chief financial officer, has defended the idea of spending $240 million on a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. His comments aren't likely to reverse critics' stances, however.
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Date: 2007-11-14

Alibaba's IPO Plays With Yahoo's Stock
Up and down, down and up - it just sort of meandered along for a while.
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Date: 2007-10-31

Successful Facebook Groups
Facebook is one of the most powerful social networking services currently available. Its interface and framework allow a person to spread news virally as quick as any social bookmarking service.
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Date: 2007-09-04

Harry Potter Helps Amazon in the Second Quarter
Amazon.com had a strong second quarter increasing its net income on revenue that rose 35 percent.
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Date: 2007-07-25

Social Networking And Marketing
Makovsky + Company, an independent global public relations firms has launched Online Fluency, a practice focused on applying the techniques of social networking to business-to-business marketing.
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Date: 2007-02-06

E-Commerce & Reputation Management
The Internet is an informational repository with seemingly immeasurable limits, and as such anything you say in cyberspace will most likely be accessible at the click of a mouse for decades to come.
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Date: 2007-02-06

AOL & EMI Offer Free Music Videos
In a time where the pricing and distribution of online music and video is the object of a fair amount of scrutiny, there are companies looking for alternatives that will make the arguments null and void. The European divisions of AOL have and EMI announced an deal offering streaming music videos through an ad-supported model.
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Date: 2007-02-06

Social Network Gains New Partners
Social networking site Gather.com has partnered with three publishers and a record label to provide exclusive content for the site. The partners are Harvard Health Publications, Publishers Weekly, McGraw-Hill Professional and Columbia Records.
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Date: 2007-02-06

Technorati Closes Album On 2000 Bloggers
A link scheme designed to game the rankings at sites like blog tracker Technorati, along with other search sites, received a swift kick in the routers from the Technorati crew.
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Date: 2007-02-06

Wal-Mart To Offer Movie Downloads
When it comes to pure, unadulterated retail, there are few stores that do it any better than Wal-Mart. The company has made a reputation in offering consumers a one-stop shop for everything from cereal to motor oil.
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Date: 2007-02-06

Spending Time On MySpace
When it comes to where US Internet users are spending the most time MySpace is the leader. The social networking site accounted for 12 percent of all time spent online in December 2006, according to Compete Inc.
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Date: 2007-02-06

Abandon Social Media While You Still Can
Much has been made of the impact social media could have on the SEO industry, potentially providing an entirely new avenue in which to promote a business as well as opening up an additional method for generating inbound links to improve search rankings.
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Date: 2007-02-06

Super Bowl Ads - Traffic And Search
The big game provided the starting point to push traffic from the commercials broadcast during the Super Bowl to online destinations. Not all of those big names took advantage of the buzz as they could have.
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Date: 2007-02-06

Manning, Shakespeare Share Ask Spotlight
People in and around the Indianapolis area will appreciate the latest update to Smart Answers at Ask.com. As for Bears fans like our managing editor Mike McDonald, maybe you should stick to searching for Shakespearian tragedies instead.
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Date: 2007-02-05

Lenssen Predicts The Evolution Of Search
Philipp Lenssen, the resident guru at Google Blogoscoped and a frequent WebProNews contributor, has looked far, far into the future, and he's sharing his predictions with the rest of us. They cover the next two technological "levels" of search, and even delve into the intriguing years "beyond."
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Date: 2007-02-05