Monthly Archives: February 2014

Do you know that Google supports hashtag search?

The feature has been there for a few months. However, I only became aware of it a day or two ago. Not only does Google surface results for Google+ (public posts and posts shared with you), but it also links

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Visa And MasterCard’s Common Bond: International Growth

The recent rash of data breaches has many consumers second-guessing whether it’s safe to use their payment cards at the point of sale. Some states even are considering discontinuing offering tax refunds to sponsored prepaid card accounts because of the

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As the Mobile Payments World Turns…

Nothing like earnings season to pull out a few nuggets of insightful comments from some key execs to get folks talking. Yep, we actually heard the words “mobile payments” come out of Apple’s top exec Tim Cook’s mouth! But there

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Market Cornered: JPMorgan Owns Over 60% Notional Of All Gold Derivatives

Perhaps the only question we have after seeing the attached table, which shows that as of Q3, 2013 JPMorgan owned $65.4 billion, or just over 60% of the total notional ($108.2 billion) of all gold derivatives in the US, is

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How Google Plus Profiles & Pages Gain Search Authority

Increasing Visibility & Influence In Google Search That means that anyone who wants to make use of Google+ as part of an overall strategy of increasing visibility and influence in Google Search should be actively pursuing all of the following

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Google Highlights Value of Patents in Motorola Sale to Lenovo – IEEE Spectrum

Google hangs onto patents to defend its Android system as it sells off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo See on spectrum.ieee.org

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Social Media Addiction and Other Mobile Marketing Trends [Infographic]

With Lenovo buying Motorola and a new generation of devices on the way, there’s rumblings of change in the mobile marketplace. But none of the hardware and network juggling will stem the tide of mobile marketing. Get your Free Business Plan

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Google’s Motorola misstep could be Lenovo’s boon

An expensive mistake by Google could turn into a golden opportunity for China’s Lenovo Group as it expands beyond its success in the personal computer industry. See on phys.org

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Twitter developing e-commerce service

Twitter is exploring ways to sell products directly from the 140-character missives the one-to-many text messaging service site is famous for, a technology news site has reported. See on phys.org

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The Expert Challenges in Identity and Authentication – findBIOMETRICS Year in Review Part 3

January 29, 2014 – by the findBIOMETRICS Team     The past two weeks we have been examining the results of the findBIOMETRICS Year in Review. Starting with t (What are the biggest ch… See on kennethcarnesi.wordpress.com

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