‘Business 2 Community’ is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, April 17 at 2.00 pm ET. The topic of the webinar is “Best Practices from the World’s Most Social Technology Companies”.The ‘Business 2 Community’ team says, “Join the leading enterprise social practitioners from Cisco, Dell, Samsung, and SAP in a frank conversation about how the world’s most social large technology companies are executing at global scale. LaSandra Brill (@LaSandraBrill), Richard Margetic (@ByJove), Jessica Kalbarczyk (@JessKalbarczyk), and Brian Rice (@briansrice) will share their insights,... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Why FairSearch Can’t Find Anyone To Listen To Its Anti-Google Tirades”.Brian Proffitt says, “Google is sort of everywhere these days. Between its successful Android platform and the ubiquity of Google services for consumers and businesses, it’s getting hard to avoid the big G. Yet when its rivals form an organization like FairSearch.org and start calling out the search giant as monopolistic and anticompetitive, no one much seems to care”. Why FairSearch Can’t Find Anyone To Listen To Its Anti-Google Tirades ReadWrite [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Internet Ad Revenues Top $36 Billion in 2012, Study Says”.Seth Fiegerman says, “Internet ad revenues in the U.S. increased by 15% in 2012 to $36.6 billion, driven by significant year-over-year increases in revenue for mobile, search and digital video ads, according to a new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Digital ad revenues also had a strong second-half of the year, topping $10 billion in the fourth quarter for the first time ever”. Internet Ad Revenues Top $36 Billion in 2012, Study Says Mashable.com [...]

‘Business 2 Community’ is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, May 8 at 2.00 pm ET. The topic of the webinar is “Why AuthorRank is the Future of SEO and What You Need to do About it Now”.The ‘Business 2 Community’ team says, “If you’ve followed SEO and Internet marketing news over the past year or so, you’ve no doubt come across the concept of AuthorRank, which AJ Kohn says “could be more disruptive than all of the Panda updates combined.” Google has stated that “the identity of individual agents responsible for content can be used to influence search ratings.”... [...]

eMarketer is hosting a webinar on Thursday, April 18 at 1.00 pm EDT. The topic of the webinar is “US Retail Ecommerce Outlook—What’s Driving Growth?”.eMarketer team says, “”Retail ecommerce in the US, powered by technology and business innovations, will grow at a healthy 14% average annual rate from 2012 to 2017, according to eMarketer. Join us as we discuss our new ecommerce forecast and the major trends that are driving this growth.The webinar will address these key topics:• Mobile shopping, new CPG selling models and personalized shopping experiences• What... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Yahoo Earnings Beat Estimates, But Core Problems Remain”.Seth Fiegerman says, “Yahoo’s profits in the first quarter beat Wall Street estimates, but the company’s core advertising business still appears to be heading in the wrong direction.Yahoo reported earnings-per-share of $0.38 on revenue of $1.07 billion for the March quarter, beating the consensus estimate for earnings of $0.24 per share, but coming in below the $1.1 billion in revenue that analysts had expected. The stock declined by as much as 4% in after hours trading... [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Study Shows Producing Enough Content is Marketers Biggest Challenge”.Dechay Watts says, “According to a new CMI research report, the 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends, the biggest challenge for marketers this year has been producing enough content, with 64 percent overall listing that as a challenge, and 29 percent saying it’s their biggest challenge of all.  In the past, producing engaging content was the top challenge.  We hope this doesn’t mean marketers are spinning their wheels churning... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Conducting Content: From Dissonance to Harmony”.Rebecca Lieb says, “With today’s pressing content demands, every organization with a website, blog and marketing communication documents needs a content marketing strategy. Below are a few questions to consider when developing your own strategy.Do you know everyone in your organization who creates and/or publishes content?Where are your organization’s creative assets stored and managed? (“My Inbox” and/or “My Desktop” are not correct answers.)Do... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Microsoft Cuts Prices of Cloud Services to Match Amazon”.Samantha Murphy says, “Microsoft said it is slashing the prices for its Windows Azure cloud service as part of an effort to better compete against Amazon’s existing hosting and storage platform.The company said it will now match Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) prices for some of its online data services by 21% to 33%”. Microsoft Cuts Prices of Cloud Services to Match Amazon Mashable.com [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Hackers Attack 90,000 WordPress Blogs”.Marshall Honorof says, “Keeping the default settings on any Internet-connected service is just asking for trouble. It’s easy enough to scoff at people whose brilliant “12345” password fell victim to hackers, but it’s just as simple to target usernames. A number of WordPress bloggers discovered this the hard way, when their “admin” accounts became part of a hostile, exploitative botnet.The attacks began last week, and have affected more than 90,000 blogs so far.... [...]