VIDEO: From tyres to shoes in Ethiopia |
- VIDEO: From tyres to shoes in Ethiopia
- VIDEO: Syria army 'storms' rebel town Qusair
- 5 Reasons Tumblr + Yahoo is Good For Users
- 5 Reasons Tumblr + Yahoo is Good For Users
- 5 Reasons Tumblr + Yahoo is Good For Users
- 5 Reasons Tumblr + Yahoo is Good For Users
- India gripes over border, trade woes on Li's first foreign trip
- Imran Khan's party wins revote in Karachi, protests expected
- China asks NKorea to release fishing boat, crew
- SAPVoice: The Overlooked: Social Media Marketing For Senior Citizens
- The Impossible Feat of Madonna's Billboard Award-Winning MDNA Tour
- Study: 78% Of Salespeople Using Social Media Outsell Their Peers
- Credit Suisse Says Wearable Tech "The Next Big Thing"
- Imran Khan's party wins revote in Karachi, protests expected
- Analysis: At margins of shale oil boom, a tempered euphoria
- Insight: The fight for North Dakota's fracking-water market
- Asia markets up after US delivers positive data
- Spring Time: Time To Get Efficient
- The Untold Truth About What Really Happens When Madison Avenue Becomes Publicly Held
- Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen
| VIDEO: From tyres to shoes in Ethiopia Posted: 19 May 2013 10:39 PM PDT George Alagiah has been to a shoe factory with a difference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
| VIDEO: Syria army 'storms' rebel town Qusair Posted: 19 May 2013 04:49 AM PDT Syrian government forces have surrounded the rebel stronghold of Qusair and are storming it from several directions, says Syrian state TV. |
| 5 Reasons Tumblr + Yahoo is Good For Users Posted: 19 May 2013 08:18 PM PDT Whenever a spunky, growing startup gets sold to an established player, the cry goes out. Users won't like it. The culture will be ruined. The startup will be subsumed by its parent. Sometimes it's true, but in the case of the Yahoo purchase of Tumblr, I think there's an argument to be made that everyone wins. Tumblr users, Yahoo users, and the investors and staffs of both teams. Here's five reasons why critics are worried, and why they are wrong. 1. Yahoo will ruin Tumblr with ads. Tumblr is a 6-year-old company with $112 million in investor funds. There has been pressure, one presumes from the board, to get the site to profitability and ads went from zero to $13 million in 2012, and were projected to reach $100 million by 2013. Simply put, without a deep-pocketed parent, Tumblr was going to have to embrace ads, even as founder and CEO David Karp has said as recently as 2010 that ads "turn his stomach." So, will Yahoo junk up the Tumblr experience with a ton of ads? No way. Yahoo needs Tumblr to remain pure, and to keep the core users happy. Yahoo has plenty of related ad supported pages to introduce to the Tumblr community, and tons of new video offerings that will come with pre-roll avails. What Yahoo needs from Tumblr is its powerfully engaged, and curation capable use base. So the Yahoo deal protects the Tumblr users from an onslaught of ads that otherwise were on the horizon. This is good for both. |
| 5 Reasons Tumblr + Yahoo is Good For Users Posted: 19 May 2013 05:55 PM PDT Whenever a spunky, growing startup gets sold to an established player, the cry goes out. Users won't like it. The culture will be ruined. The startup will be subsumed by its parent. Sometimes it's true, but in the case of the Yahoo purchase of Tumblr, I think there's an argument to be made that everyone wins. Tumblr users, Yahoo users, and the investors and staffs of both teams. Here's five reasons why critics are worried, and why they are wrong. 1. Yahoo will ruin Tumblr with ads. Tumblr is a 6-year-old company with $112 million in investor funds. There has been pressure, one presumes from the board, to get the site to profitability and ads went from zero to $13 million in 2012, and were projected to reach $100 million by 2013. Simply put, without a deep-pocketed parent, Tumblr was going to have to embrace ads, even as founder and CEO David Karp has said as recently as 2010 that ads "turn his stomach." So, will Yahoo junk up the Tumblr experience with a ton of ads? No way. Yahoo needs Tumblr to remain pure, and to keep the core users happy. Yahoo has plenty of related ad supported pages to introduce to the Tumblr community, and tons of new video offerings that will come with pre-roll avails. What Yahoo needs from Tumblr is its powerfully engaged, and curation capable use base. So the Yahoo deal protects the Tumblr users from an onslaught of ads that otherwise were on the horizon. This is good for both. |
| 5 Reasons Tumblr + Yahoo is Good For Users Posted: 19 May 2013 08:18 PM PDT Whenever a spunky, growing startup gets sold to an established player, the cry goes out. Users won't like it. The culture will be ruined. The startup will be subsumed by its parent. Sometimes it's true, but in the case of the Yahoo purchase of Tumblr, I think there's an argument to be made that everyone wins. Tumblr users, Yahoo users, and the investors and staffs of both teams. Here's five reasons why critics are worried, and why they are wrong. 1. Yahoo will ruin Tumblr with Ads. Tumblr is a 6-year-old company with 112 million in investor funds. There has been pressure, one presumes from the Board, to get the site to profitability and ads went from zero to $13 million in 2012, and were projected to reach $100 million by 2013. Simply put, without a deep-pocketed parent, Tumblr was going to have to embrace ads, even as founder and CEO David Karp has said as recently as 2010 that ads "turn his stomach." So, will Yahoo junk up the Tumblr experience with a ton of ads? No way. Yahoo needs Tumblr to remain pure, and to keep the core users happy. Yahoo has plenty of related ad supported pages to introduce to the Tumblr community, and tons of new video offerings that will come with pre-roll avails. What Yahoo needs from Tumblr is its powerfully engaged, and curation capable use base. So the Yahoo deal protects the Tumblr users from an onslaught of ads that otherwise were on the horizon. This is good for both. |
| 5 Reasons Tumblr + Yahoo is Good For Users Posted: 19 May 2013 05:55 PM PDT Whenever a spunky, growing startup gets sold to an established player, the cry goes out. Users won't like it. The culture will be ruined. The startup will be subsumed by its parent. Sometimes it's true, but in the case of the Yahoo purchase of Tumblr, I think there's an argument to be made that everyone wins. Tumblr users, Yahoo users, and the investors and staffs of both teams. Here's five reasons why critics are worried, and why they are wrong. 1. Yahoo will ruin Tumblr with Ads. Tumblr is a 6-year-old company with 112 million in investor funds. There has been pressure, one presumes from the Board, to get the site to profitability and ads went from zero to $13 million in 2012, and were projected to reach $100 million by 2013. Simply put, without a deep-pocketed parent, Tumblr was going to have to embrace ads, even as founder and CEO David Karp has said as recently as 2010 that ads "turn his stomach." So, will Yahoo junk up the Tumblr experience with a ton of ads? No way. Yahoo needs Tumblr to remain pure, and to keep the core users happy. Yahoo has plenty of related ad supported pages to introduce to the Tumblr community, and tons of new video offerings that will come with pre-roll avails. What Yahoo needs from Tumblr is its powerfully engaged, and curation capable use base. So the Yahoo deal protects the Tumblr users from an onslaught of ads that otherwise were on the horizon. This is good for both. |
| India gripes over border, trade woes on Li's first foreign trip Posted: 19 May 2013 09:53 PM PDT NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday a recent military standoff in the Himalayas could affect relations between the two countries as they looked to boost bilateral trade.      |
| Imran Khan's party wins revote in Karachi, protests expected Posted: 19 May 2013 09:31 PM PDT
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| China asks NKorea to release fishing boat, crew Posted: 19 May 2013 09:28 PM PDT BEIJING (AP) — China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies. |
| SAPVoice: The Overlooked: Social Media Marketing For Senior Citizens Posted: 19 May 2013 09:38 PM PDT By Katie Moran, Boston College |
| The Impossible Feat of Madonna's Billboard Award-Winning MDNA Tour Posted: 19 May 2013 09:24 PM PDT Sunday night Madonna received a Billboard Music Award for the Top Touring Artist of 2012. Her MDNA tour, which brought in $305 million, was a musical and visual extravaganza. Madonna performed with 140,000 pounds of gear suspended above her head. She danced on 42-square-inch squares undulating up and down, reaching eight feet above the stage. What's more, at each of the 88 stops of the tour, the stage had been built in a few short hours by a local crew who has never seen it (or the traveling roadies) before. Rock concerts descend upon a host site and then quickly disappear. The only certainty is that of unforeseen obstacles. How do they get the show to go on every night, no matter what? |
| Study: 78% Of Salespeople Using Social Media Outsell Their Peers Posted: 19 May 2013 06:51 PM PDT When Jim Keenan, the social sales specialist, describes his work today, he'll tell you that he's "ushering salespeople from the old world into the social world" - the cold calling world to the Twitter world, the salespeople who call prospects incessantly to the salespeople who educate their prospects with relevant content. Keenan's argument in the The Rise of Social Salespeople is that using social media to sell - increases profits. |
| Credit Suisse Says Wearable Tech "The Next Big Thing" Posted: 19 May 2013 06:41 PM PDT Wearable tech isn't new but Credit Suisse (as cited by Barron's here) is calling it "the next big thing" and forecasting the market to ramp from about $3B – $5B today to $50B over the next 3-5 years. The implications and opportunities for clinical healthcare (not just fitness/wellness) are intriguing. As this unfolds, it could easily be that the Credit Suisse forecast is overly conservative. One of the slides in the Credit Suisse report included many of the devices that are well known in the mobile and digital health circles – including the new Shine by Misfit Wearables. There's good reason to be bullish. At a health conference last year – the CIO of a teaching hospital shared a provocative statistic that his organization had uncovered in their ROI analysis of a large iPad purchase. At the time, the hospital was debating the merits of such a large financial commitment – so they tasked the CIO to do a crude ROI analysis to justify the sizable expense. Was the ROI 6 months – or maybe a year? The (unscientific) results were jaw dropping. Using some crude calculations around workflow and time-motion analysis the CIO calculated the ROI for an iPad in their hospital would be 9 days. That's right – 9 days. |
| Imran Khan's party wins revote in Karachi, protests expected Posted: 19 May 2013 09:32 PM PDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Cricket hero Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf party won a revote in an upmarket constituency of Karachi on Sunday, unofficial results showed, a day after gunmen killed a party leader, setting the stage for protests and counter-protests.     |
| Analysis: At margins of shale oil boom, a tempered euphoria Posted: 19 May 2013 09:09 PM PDT
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| Insight: The fight for North Dakota's fracking-water market Posted: 19 May 2013 09:48 PM PDT
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| Asia markets up after US delivers positive data Posted: 19 May 2013 08:51 PM PDT BANGKOK (AP) — Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. |
| Spring Time: Time To Get Efficient Posted: 19 May 2013 09:13 PM PDT At Betterment, we don't do spring cleaning. We do spring efficiency. It's the equivalent of clearing out the winter cobwebs once and never having to do it again. |
| The Untold Truth About What Really Happens When Madison Avenue Becomes Publicly Held Posted: 19 May 2013 08:59 PM PDT When asked who had the most influence on advertising in the 20th Century, most people point to David Ogilvy. Few remember Marion Harper Jr., whose influence on the business of advertising as it's practiced today is even greater. |
| Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen Posted: 19 May 2013 08:45 PM PDT
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