FOUR tech titans are fighting to become sole provider of your every digital need.
See the original post here:
Race to win cyber world
A SENATE committee inquiry will hear about concerns over the safety of “parasitic” software to be used as plug-ins for the e-health records system.
Continue reading here:
Fears over ‘parasitic’ e-health software
The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in Texas. The offer was made during a live online town hall after the engineer’s wife questioned the government’s policy concerning H-1B visa workers.
See more here:
Engineer’s wife ‘ferocious’ in Obama Q&A on H-1Bs
First, some housekeeping: Every Wednesday night, we run the report on what stories were most shared by LinkedIn’s 135-plus million members. That means the news of Facebook’s coming IPO — announced Wednesday, Feb. 1 — had only one day to attempt to rocket to the top of our rankings. A Mashable story about the IPO came close, but didn’t have enough juice to unseat an infographic looking at the rise of Pinterest.
That’s fitting, actually, as the top two stories show how fluid the current business world is. Facebook is the giant today. But new platforms like Pinterest are popping up, rising and falling, and no business model can go long without finding itself at risk of being upended. Here’s the list:
Top 5 most-shared articles on LinkedIn (Jan 25, 2012 – Feb. 1, 2012)
Follow @LinkedIn_Today
- Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers (Mashable)
- P&G To Lay Off 1,600 After Discovering It’s Free To Advertise On Facebook (Business Insider)
- Forget Networking. How to Be a Connector (Entrepreneur)
- Facebook Files for $5 Billion IPO (Mashable)
- Web economy in G20 set to double by 2016, Google says (BBC)
The best example of the upending is Business Insider’s look at P&G’s decision to slash ad spending, realizing that it doesn’t have to buy media the way it used to. In its earnings call, CEO Bob McDonald laid it out:
I believe that over time, we will see the increase in the cost of advertising moderate. There are just so many different media available today … One example is our Old Spice campaign, where we had 1.8 billion free impressions and there are many other examples I can cite from all over the world.
P&G is the world’s largest advertiser. When it declares a shift in thinking — and starts talking about the benefits of “free” — other large companies and any companies that depend on advertising are sure to pay attention.
Then there’s Pinterest, the site that’s becoming a major feeder channel for retail. Members — about 60% of whom are women — post original pictures, photos of celebrity hairstyles, recipes, things they want to buy and more. Others comment or start their own threads based off the original post. The viral activity has caused traffic to soar, rising over 400% last fall to 7.2 million unique visitors by December.
Where this curve ends is impossible to know: Does it rise to a Facebook-like magnitude? Drop off like MySpace? Is there someone in a garage somewhere getting ready to reveal a site that tries to out Pinterest Pinterest? (No doubt, the answer is yes.)
Or, what happens if there’s a seismic shift and the Internet landscape suddenly changes? As the BBC notes in its story on the G20 “Web economy,” even the current desktop world is just a few years from being completely transformed:
By 2016 about 80% of all internet users will access the web using a mobile phone.
That giants will rise and giants will fall in this new landscape is about the only thing that’s certain.
Here are the most shared stories by professionals in the following industries:
- Banking: Wells Fargo: The Bank That Works (Forbes)
- Venture Capital: Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years? (Ben’s Blog)
- Investment Management: Bain or blessing? (The Economist)
- Higher Education: An Introvert’s Guide to Networking (HBR)
- Graphic Design: The Gmail Logo Was Designed the Night Before Gmail Launched (The Atlantic)
- Publishing: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society (Telegraph)
Poll of the week
View original post here:
The Rise of Pinterest — and Other Top Stories on LinkedIn This Week
First, some housekeeping: Every Wednesday night, we run the report on what stories were most shared by LinkedIn’s 135-plus million members. That means the news of Facebook’s coming IPO — announced Wednesday, Feb. 1 — had only one day to attempt to rocket to the top of our rankings. A Mashable story about the IPO came close, but didn’t have enough juice to unseat an infographic looking at the rise of Pinterest.
That’s fitting, actually, as the top two stories show how fluid the current business world is. Facebook is the giant today. But new platforms like Pinterest are popping up, rising and falling, and no business model can go long without finding itself at risk of being upended. Here’s the list:
Top 5 most-shared articles on LinkedIn (Jan 25, 2012 – Feb. 1, 2012)
Follow @LinkedIn_Today
- Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers (Mashable)
- P&G To Lay Off 1,600 After Discovering It’s Free To Advertise On Facebook (Business Insider)
- Forget Networking. How to Be a Connector (Entrepreneur)
- Facebook Files for $5 Billion IPO (Mashable)
- Web economy in G20 set to double by 2016, Google says (BBC)
The best example of the upending is Business Insider’s look at P&G’s decision to slash ad spending, realizing that it doesn’t have to buy media the way it used to. In its earnings call, CEO Bob McDonald laid it out:
I believe that over time, we will see the increase in the cost of advertising moderate. There are just so many different media available today … One example is our Old Spice campaign, where we had 1.8 billion free impressions and there are many other examples I can cite from all over the world.
P&G is the world’s largest advertiser. When it declares a shift in thinking — and starts talking about the benefits of “free” — other large companies and any companies that depend on advertising are sure to pay attention.
Then there’s Pinterest, the site that’s becoming a major feeder channel for retail. Members — about 60% of whom are women — post original pictures, photos of celebrity hairstyles, recipes, things they want to buy and more. Others comment or start their own threads based off the original post. The viral activity has caused traffic to soar, rising over 400% last fall to 7.2 million unique visitors by December.
Where this curve ends is impossible to know: Does it rise to a Facebook-like magnitude? Drop off like MySpace? Is there someone in a garage somewhere getting ready to reveal a site that tries to out Pinterest Pinterest? (No doubt, the answer is yes.)
Or, what happens if there’s a seismic shift and the Internet landscape suddenly changes? As the BBC notes in its story on the G20 “Web economy,” even the current desktop world is just a few years from being completely transformed:
By 2016 about 80% of all internet users will access the web using a mobile phone.
That giants will rise and giants will fall in this new landscape is about the only thing that’s certain.
Here are the most shared stories by professionals in the following industries:
- Banking: Wells Fargo: The Bank That Works (Forbes)
- Venture Capital: Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years? (Ben’s Blog)
- Investment Management: Bain or blessing? (The Economist)
- Higher Education: An Introvert’s Guide to Networking (HBR)
- Graphic Design: The Gmail Logo Was Designed the Night Before Gmail Launched (The Atlantic)
- Publishing: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society (Telegraph)
Poll of the week
View original post here:
The Rise of Pinterest — and Other Top Stories on LinkedIn This Week
Australian-listed integrated mobile and digital communications company, Mobile Embrace, has raised $1.1 million in a private placement. Mobile Embrace (ASX:MBE) CEO, Chris Thorpe said the funds would be used as working capital and to further accelerate the growth of the company’s integrated mobile advertising and marketing business.
Visit link:
Mobile Embrace raises funds for next stage growth
Australian-listed satellite company, NewSat (ASX:NWT) has signed a new strategic satellite capacity contract with Asia’s Malaysian-based MEASAT Satellite Systems, which boosts the total value of all contracts NewSat has secured for its next-generation Jabiru-1 satellite to US$526 million. The new, core agreement for capacity on NewSat’s still to be launched Jabiru-1 satellite is for a minimum of US$180 million, and provides MEASAT with multiple transponders covering South Asia and South East Asia for the 15 year life of the satellite. Commenting on the multi-million dollar contract with MEASAT, NewSat Founder and CEO, Adrian Ballintine, said the agreement would be finalised over the next two weeks with the completion of the Jabiru-1 technical specifications and the execution of a lease agreement with MEASAT to secure capacity for the Jabiru-2 satellite.
Continue reading here:
NewSat contracts rocket to $526m with latest win
APPLE has widened its claims against Samsung in its ongoing patent battle with the Korean electronics maker.
See the article here:
Apple widens patent claims against Samsung
THE jailed founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload has been denied bail after a hearing in the High Court in New Zealand.
See the original post here:
Kim Dotcom denied bail
THE jailed founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload is complaining that women inmates are giving him unwanted attention.
Visit link:
Female inmates contact Kim Dotcom