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Marketing Lessons Startups Need to Learn from Google’s Project Glass Concept Video

Posted on 19 May 2012

Editor’s note:  This is a guest post by Neil Patel, co-founder of  KISSmetrics  and blogger at  QuickSprout.com . You may have seen it by now… Google’s concept video about its new Project Glass . These glasses will do what your smart phone will do only without having to hold anything…you actually see your options at the side of your view.

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Newspaper Attacks UK Government For Its ‘Closeness’ To Google

Posted on 19 May 2012

UK tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail, has decided to raise the issue of Google’s influence on the UK government, after uncovering the fact that Conservative Party ministers have held meetings with Google an average of once a month since the General Election two years ago. There have been 23 meetings between Tory ministers and Google since June 2010, with Prime Minister David Cameron meeting Google three times and George Osborne – who as Chancellor of the Exchequer is supposed to meet with business leaders – four times in two years. The story needs to be a seen in a wider context.

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SpaceX’s Historic Launch Aborted Less Than A Second Prior To Launch

Posted on 19 May 2012

“Entering terminal count autosequence. 60 seconds to engine fire

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Hyperlinks Are Dumb And Bleeding Money; How To Ensure Yours Aren’t

Posted on 19 May 2012

Editor’s note:  Oliver Roup is the founder and CEO of VigLink, a service that makes it easier to use affiliate programs on your blog or website.

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Personalization Is Not A Feature

Posted on 19 May 2012

Editor’s note: Scott Brave is the CTO and co-founder, Baynote . We’ve all watched from the sidelines as companies have come out in a burst of glory, and then, two years later, spent their venture capital, lost their user base, and failed to monetize. This begs the question – what are the factors that drive a company’s survival, differentiate it, and ultimately make it a winner

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Real Tech Alert: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 Ready For Takeoff To International Space Station

Posted on 19 May 2012

Watch live streaming video from spaceflightnow at livestream.com SpaceX , the private space exploration company founded by PalPal and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk , is ready to boldly go where no private company has legitimately attempted to go before: The International Space Station . (Live video of the rocket at Cape Canaveral in Florida is embedded above.) In just a few hours at 1:55am Pacific Time (which is 4:55am Eastern time) Saturday morning, SpaceX will attempt to make the first ever privately-funded launch to head to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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ClarityRay Battles Ad Blockers With $500K In Funding

Posted on 19 May 2012

Some of you are probably reading this post with ad blocker right now — and to be honest, I don’t blame you. Sure, there’s the occasional amusing or genuinely useful ad, but not terribly often, so why not install a plugin and avoid the whole mess? Of course, those ads make money, so if ad blockers become widespread enough, it could be a real problem for online publishers (who have enough problems already).

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Study: Twitter Sentiment Mirrored Facebook’s Stock Price Today

Posted on 18 May 2012

Facebook’s IPO was obviously the single most discussed topic on Twitter today. The good folks over at social media data platform DataSift monitored what Twitter users were saying about the IPO throughout the day and came up with some interesting conclusions.

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Facebook Reveals How Much Stock Each Bank Got, Morgan Stanley Nabbed $6 Billion Worth

Posted on 18 May 2012

Just after the markets closed on its first day of public trading, Facebook amended its S-1 with a complete prospectus detailing how much stock each underwriter got to sell. Morgan Stanley, the lead-left bank, received 162.1 million shares ($6.15 billion worth) followed by J.P

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David Kirkpatrick On What The ‘Facebook Effect’ Could Be Post-IPO [TCTV]

Posted on 18 May 2012

While Mark Zuckerberg rang in Facebook’s first day as a publicly traded company back in Silicon Valley , TechCrunch TV was in New York City to report on the scene from the NASDAQ stock market’s Marketsite building in Times Square. The opening bell and initial trades were a bit anti-climactic in person, as we’ve written — NASDAQ is a digital exchange after all, so there’s not too much to see visually.

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