Twitter’s New Patent Trove (943 Patents) from IBM

In November, Twitter disclosed in an amendment to its S1 filing that IBM was demanding licenses for three patents issued in 2006 that it claimed that Twitter was infringing upon. As far as we know, IBM didn’t file a lawsuit against Twitter, and this took place shortly before Twitter held its initial public offering. […]

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Harriet Tubman Google Logo Kicks Off Black History Month

Today’s Google logo celebrating one of our nation’s most famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman marks the beginning of Black History month. Tubman is credited with rescuing more than 300 slaves via the Underground Railroad after she herself escaped from slavery, and began her life as a free…

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Who’s Tops? Bud Light Is Unseated As Number One Super Bowl Advertiser On Google And Bing

It looks like we have an upset. Bud Light appeared to be the clear front runner among Super Bowl advertisers running paid search ads on Google and Bing, It turns out the King of Beer’s less filling counterpart is merely the runner up on both search engines. Volkswagen has garnered the top…

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Nadella Would Bring Search Cred To Microsoft CEO Role

Based on several reports is appears very likely that Microsoft will announce that Satya Nadella will be the next CEO. He brings an engineering background to the C suite. He’s also a B-school grad. For the past three years Nadella has run Microsoft’s Server & Tools business. Before…

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Google Dramatically Increases International Categories

Google’s categories for many international dashboards have been woefully inadequate. Fortunately Google has just announced a major increase in the number of categories available internationally. Based on merchant feedback, we’ve been working to improve business categories. One of the key areas we thought we could quickly improve is expanding the breadth of available categories globally. […]

Robots, Humans, and Using Basic UX Principles For Content Strategy Development

Google’s purchase of the London based artificial intelligence startup DeepMind created plenty of headlines earlier this week. And the majority of the initial reporting revolved around speculation of Google’s plans to dominate a robotic future, (including more than one reference to Terminator’s Skynet.) Image credit: terminator.wikia.com However, a few days after the headlines more in depth […]

4 Content Marketing Strategies That Still Build Links

Does anybody else hear R.E.M. (video autoplay) playing in their heads every time they open a post about link building? Link building as we knew it is changing drastically; and seriously folks, it’s getting hard to write about. What’s the latest breaking news? Spammy guest posting for…

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The 10 coolest Google Business Views

1. Chataigner Yves

A Parisian cheese shop.

2. Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, Iran

3. uShaka Marine World, South Africa

4. Toy Joy

An Austin toy shop. I couldn’t embed this one but you can click to explore. 

 

5. Emirate A380

An aeroplane!

6. The Catalonia Parliament, Barcelona

7. Nasir Al Mulk Mosque, Shiraz, Iran.

 

8. Uncommon Objects

An Austin antiques shop.

9. Sarastro

A London restaurant.

10. Lung Shan Temple, Hong Kong