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“Two roads diverged in the social media wood, and I, I took the one less traveled,” said 21.7% of salespeople.
In a recent survey of 511 predominantly B2B sales reps and executives published on A Sales Guy Consulting, approximately 22% of salespeople claimed they didn’t use social media to close deals, while an overwhelming 78.3% said they had used social media to sell. Read more
Microsoft made slew of Xbox announcements at its much-hyped “A New Generation Revealed” event, which was live streamed online and broadcasted on TV on Tuesday.
Viewers were treated to the new Xbox One console and its features, such as voice-recognition control for all things entertainment, a TV guide, Skype integration and a new Kinect sensor, among other things.
Microsoft also revealed a Halo TV series (produced by Steven Spielberg), EA Sports Ignite, NFL partnership, Forza Motorsport 5,…
Footage from next-generation blockbuster shooter Call of Duty: Ghosts premiered at Microsoft’s Xbox One event, demonstrating the graphical capabilities of the new console and Activision’s new gameplay engine.
Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg described Call of Duty: Ghosts as a huge leap forward for Activision and developer Infinity Ward.
“We’re pushing the genre and forward with Ghosts. I think a lot of people were expecting us to create Modern Warfare 4, but we didn’t want to rest on our…
Microsoft’s Don Mattrick pulled back the curtain on the Xbox One at a live event at the company’s Redmond campus, and it wasn’t long at all before the talk turned to software. One application in particular has been the subject of speculation for months, and SVP Yusuf Mehdi confirmed that Skype (which, if you recall, Microsoft acquired for $8.5 billion nearly two years ago) is part of the Xbox One experience.
As you might imagine, the Xbox One Skype application allows users to participate in…
In her now-famous tweet, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer promised not to “screw up” Tumblr. While it remains to be seen whether the site’s users will soon be fleeing, Tumblr’s advertising is a different story
Simply put, there’s not much to screw up at this point.
Partially, that’s because the company’s ad units are so new. But Tumblr faces other obstacles as well including an ambivalence towards advertising, a lack of metrics and a platform that lets you do lots of marketing outreach for…
The Lagos taxi driver roars across the biggest bridge in Africa at 110 mph. Buffeted by the night wind, it feels as if we’re riding a motorbike.
I am with two South Africans and a guy from Silicon Valley. We’re all swilling from a bottle of so-called whisky, including the man behind the wheel. (When your taxi driver says his name is “Success,” things can’t possibly go wrong.)
Lagos, Nigeria seems like an unlikely place for Africa’s major tech hub. The city’s estimated population is 21…
As I wrapped up the last interview with Intel’s outgoing CEO, Paul Otellini, for my feature on his legacy, he strode over to the whiteboard in the conference room. As he began to draw, he joked that he was showing me the “history of the computer industry in one chart.” (I’m not sure if he knew ‘in one chart‘ posts are one of our specialties.)
He’d shown this chart to Intel’s management in 2005, two years before the iPhone, and long before smartphone ubiquity. And yet it describes the…
As I wrapped up the last interview with Intel’s outgoing CEO, Paul Otellini, for my feature on his legacy, he strode over to the whiteboard in the conference room. As he began to draw, he joked that he was showing me the “history of the computer industry in one chart.” (I’m not sure if he knew ‘in one chart‘ posts are one of our specialties.)
He’d shown this chart to Intel’s management in 2005, two years before the iPhone, and long before smartphone ubiquity. And yet it describes the…
During her first earnings call after taking over as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer laid out her plan to start acquiring smaller companies that “align well overall with our businesses,” noting that she had done about 20 such acquisitions in her long tenure at Google. That was just more than six months ago, but Mayer has already completed half as many acquisitions in her time at Yahoo.
Yahoo announced late Friday that it had acquired Loki Studios, a mobile gaming company, for its experience with…
Twitter has a message for everyone this Mother’s Day: Stop using Twitter for once.
In a special Mother’s Day ad posted online Friday, Twitter touts its service for helping users connect with everyone from politicians to musicians, but when the person in the video starts to type out a tweet saying happy mother’s day to his mom, the narrator loses it: “What the f*ck are you doing? Give your mom a call!”
The ad is simply called #MothersDay. Ironically enough, the top tweet when you search for…
