Update one-of-many-to-come as we monitor M&A activity in the TMT sector: since 12 May, when Verizon announced it would acquire AOL for $4.4bn — roughly 2.2% of its market cap at the time — there had been no real news to report until yesterday. Done Deal The deal has now completed,… Read More
Put Down That Basket & Go Shopping With Twitter
Folks at Twitter are desperate to come up with the next new big thing following a shaky stock performance that reads -30% over the last three months of trade. It is not that easy, though. The More The Merrier? As it keeps adding new features, Twitter has no intention to stop… Read More
The Hedge – 23 June 2015
The Hedge covers the main news reported by other sources on the web that our Team of experts believes should have caught your attention in recent days. We monitor and select the top five stories that truly deserve your attention, on a daily and weekly basis. We invite our readers to… Read More
SEO Monkeys, Facebook Instant Articles & Digital Journalism
G.K. Chesterton once said that journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. Mark Zuckerberg may well disagree with that in the light of latest development at Facebook (FB). For folks in the digital and marketing space, focus will have… Read More
The Hedge – 19 June 2015
The Hedge covers the main news reported by other sources on the web that our Team of experts believes should have caught your attention in recent days. We monitor and select the top five stories that truly deserve your attention, on a daily and weekly basis. We invite our readers to… Read More
Twitter’s Artificial Intelligence Deal Is Great News For Google
While some observers have argued that Twitter has made a major step in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) field following its bolt-on acquisition of Whetlab, there remains doubts that its strategy will actually work out — it will likely favour Google instead, in my view. Trends The attempt to apply machine learning processes to customers’… Read More
The Hedge – 18 June 2015
The Hedge covers the main news reported by other sources on the web that our Team of SEO experts believes should have caught your attention in recent days. We monitor and select the top five stories that truly deserve your attention, on a daily/weekly basis. We invite our readers to… Read More
Google’s Yellow Warning Boosts SEO Prospects
Google just got the idea of testing a “yellow warning label” aimed at page speed load (“Slow To Load”, as the feature is known) — with a focus on mobile, of course. It’s like a yellow card in European football and US soccer. All good on paper, and in reality as well.… Read More
Is Google’s ‘My Account’ Just Noise Therapy?
Hub spells privacy — at least that’s what Google’s My Account latest feature seems to suggest. What’s Mine, What’s Yours On top of new product launches that were announced at the Google I/O 2015 Conference last week in San Francisco, Google’s new hub for privacy and personal data managing has been identified by… Read More