According to All Things Digital, Apple is set to buy Quattro Wireless, another mobile ad platform similar to AdMob. This deal seems very logical since Apple tried to acquire AdMob but Google paid more, at $750 million. Instead Apple went to the second largest mobile ad network, Quattro, with a $275 million proposal.
Was it a good deal for Quattro or for Apple? (more…)
Until a few weeks ago, I used Google Reader to follow different RSS feeds for news and blogs. Now, I use Twitter full-time to read the news and get engaged. I don’t think that I’ll go back to use any RSS Reader until a major change happens. Why?
In order to set yourself for success as an entrepreneur, you need to be very passionate about what you do. However, in this age, the competition is fierce. Passion alone isn’t enough. You need to be really smart and creative about everything you do. Let me share with you the “secret” of this endless flow of ideas. (more…)
I stumbled across Meebo Bar when I was setting up this blog. The idea of embedding a social bar or toolbar that encourages sharing seemed neat to me. A few days afterwards, I found out about Wibiya, Gigya, and Ow.ly “social bars”. So, the question is which one to use? How do I decide? Can I use two or more social bars? (more…)
If you haven’t seen Google’s real-time search results before, here is what it looks like.
On my first attempt to try LiveFyre, which I really like by the way, Robert Scoble and others shared a lot of great ideas for improving Google’s real time results. In this post, I’ll share with you some of these ideas and some more.