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If you’re panicking about not being onboard the social media marketing train, the bad news is that it’s unlikely to slow down anytime soon. There are good reasons why social media is so popular as a business tool. When executed correctly, it can affect your business hugely, whether that means ...

I’m going to apologise up front. These aren’t all original thoughts - are original thoughts still possible? I read voraciously online and I am pretty convinced that all that reading has helped inform this list. And no, I’m not going to get into the semantics about exactly what a “startup” ...

With the official Quit Facebook Day only three days away, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched a media blitz to introduce a simplified set of privacy settings that the social networking site hopes will appease their many disgruntled users. The official Facebook blog has laid out a complete overview of the ...

The New York Times reported yesterday that Apple has overtaken Microsoft as the world's most valuable technology company. According to the report, "as of Wednesday, Wall Street valued Apple at $222.12 billion and Microsoft at $219.18 billion".This represents an incredible turnaround for Apple, a company that was floundering ...

The highest proportion of a marketing budget is typically spent on offline media advertising, the interruptions during your favourite TV show, or the print ads in magazines. Most companies still spend up to 98% on advertising that doesn't show them a direct return on investment (ROI).And by that, I ...

When it comes to internet useage via mobile devices, applications far outpace browsing, even though both types of activity are available on almost two-thirds of the phones used by urban cellular users, reveals a new study. The study, "Mobile Internet in South Africa 2010" by respected research firm World Wide ...

While the “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day” page has been put back up on Facebook, it still remains blocked to users in India, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. In South Africa, the Mail & Guardian won a court case that allowed the small Johannesburg-based newspaper to publish its celebrated cartoonist Zapiro and ...

Demotix is a London-based, award-winning "citizen journalism" website and photo agency. The site has around 15 000 members in 190 countries who contribute content on a daily basis. More than 200 media outlets around the world receive their daily feed. One of the founders, Turi Munthe, writes for Memeburn about ...

Users in emerging markets look set to benefit from the brand new alliance between global Internet powerhouse, Yahoo and mobile heavyweight Nokia.After five years of collaboration, the two companies say they are now “leveraging each others' strengths in e-mail, instant messaging and maps and navigation services”, with the goal of ...

Entrepreneur, entrepreneur, entrepreneur… You hear this word over and over again, yet few bother to look it up in the dictionary. Go on, prove me wrong, what is an entrepreneur?Your definition should include both of these components:Matters pertaining to business/profit A risk takerSo, are you a risk taker in ...