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Businesses Give Google The Cold Shoulder

Businesses Give Google+ The Cold Shoulder

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Roughly two years after the launch of Google+, the Mountain View, California-based company’s most recent foray into the social media world is reportedly struggling to gain acceptance...

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2013-05-20 12:30:00

Digital Retro Platform Connects Communities & Enables Users to Share Memories NEW YORK, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Do You Remember (DYR), the first nostalgia-based interactive network for embracing retro style, trends, and cultures is proud to announce today the launch of its live website. Do You Remember is a portal for users to socialize and collaborate with others in sharing their passion for all things from the past. Its features allow individuals to generate and organize...

2013-05-15 23:04:06

Local Click to Bricks offers new solutions to help entrepreneurs better position themselves and their clients using social media sites Brandon, FL (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 Don Fawcett, CEO of Local Clicks To Bricks, recently warned marketers not to underestimate Google Plus as a method to market local business. According to Business Insider May 1, 2013, Google Plus has now surpassed Twitter touting 359 million active users. Don Fawcett commented, “Google Plus was accused of showing up late...

Facebook Exodus For One Third Of Users In New Poll
2013-05-04 06:51:24

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online One third of all Facebook users take breaks from the popular social network by deactivating their account, and 10 percent of them eventually quit using the website entirely, according to a team of Cornell University researchers. As part of the study, which was presented Thursday at the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Paris, the researchers posted an online questionnaire...

Facebook Will Let 'Trusted Contacts' Help Recover Forgotten Passwords
2013-05-03 09:54:05

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Facebook rolled out a new security feature on Thursday that lets users locked out of their accounts recover their passwords with the help of trusted friends. The optional enhancement, dubbed "Trusted Contacts,” lets a Facebook user select up to five friends to receive security codes if the user cannot login to his or her account. Should a lockout arise, Facebook will send the security codes to the friends the user has selected....

Facebook “Likes” Can Be Linked To Obesity
2013-04-25 11:52:00

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online We give a lot of information to sites like Facebook and Google, even when we don’t realize it. It’s only when we pull back for a moment and see the big picture that we realize just how much information we’ve shared and what can be done with it. For instance, each year Google releases a list of the most searched terms from the previous year, revealing how each search for words like “iPhone” or “Beyonce” can paint a...

Facebook Survey Reveals Anti-Social Network In The Making
2013-04-11 14:44:10

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online It’s a social network existing solely on servers and delivered to us via desktop or a mobile device. Yet we’re interacting with real people through Facebook, and this can complicate things. A survey from a corporate training firm has recently found that arguments and fights which begin online can spill into real-life, meaning Facebook has a larger affect on real life than we may like to acknowledge. Making matters worse, the...

2013-04-10 12:31:24

Facebook users from around the world now have access to safer social networking in multiple languages CUPERTINO, Calif., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704,), a global cloud security leader, today announced an expanded strategic partnership with Facebook focused on educating and protecting users' digital lives against malicious sites and malware. Building on an initial availability to English-speaking users in 2012, Trend Micro's...

2013-04-03 23:04:22

Facebook is a hot venue for personal trainer advertising, but it isn’t fail-safe. Bedros Keuilian explains how to market a fitness boot camp on Facebook effectively. Chino Hills, CA (PRWEB) April 03, 2013 In a recent keynote address at an online marketing conference, fitness marketing expert Bedros Keuilian spoke at length on using Facebook for personal trainer advertising. While he was very positive about the effectiveness of Facebook marketing, he admitted that he made quite a few...

Latest Facebook Move Allows Replies To Your Comments
2013-03-26 10:30:34

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Facebook has finally joined the rest of the modern Internet in one major way: they’re going to allow replies and threaded comments on Pages and extremely popular public Profiles. Facebook claims these changes will “improve conversation,” but it’s also likely they’ve introduced this change to increase time spent on the site. The social giant recently launched Graph Search for the same reasons. These two new features...

Facebook Finds Added Value For The Job Seeker
2013-03-16 10:34:54

Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Over the previous five years, the western nations of the world have found themselves in a down economy marked by increased levels of unemployment and stagnant consumer indices. The challenge many have faced is trying to regain employment after having experienced the loss of a job through company downsizing and layoffs. This major life change can be exceptionally stressful. But social networking giant Facebook, in collaboration with...