Technology companies still dominate BrandZ's list of the world's top brands, market research agency Millward Brown has revealed. But that's not very shocking—there are technology's glory days. The big news this year is that software titan Google has been knocked off its second-place pedestal.
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It’s no surprise to those of us in the Drupal community that Vancouver played a big role in paving the future of Drupal internationally. Here in Vancouver, we hosted one of the first Drupalcon's ever back in 2006 (today there are hundreds of Drupal Camps and larger Cons around the world).
Something about the open-source community aligns well with the way west-coasters see the world: accessible, inviting, improved by the contributions of many great minds. The open-source (some might say open mind, model) has led Drupal to become the most advanced CMS on the market.
read moreThe Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's chairman told Reuters today that regulators plan to review allegations that underwriter Morgan Stanley shared negative news before Facebook's hotly anticipared initial public offering last week with institutional investors.
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Netbook and laptop shipments increased by 12% in the first quarter of 2012, according to the NPD Group.
Meanwhile, tablet shipments skyrocketed 124%—more than 10 times the growth of laptop shipments.
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With Facebook’s hotly anticipated IPO over, let’s slow down to digest everything.
Today, most Canadians are complaining that their latest $700 smartphone is stuck on 3G, not the bleeding-edge 4G LTE networks cropping up across the country.
But there are hundreds of thousands of Canadians still stuck in the Stone Age of the Internet Era: their home PCs are crawling the web at the slow, slow speed of dial-up.
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Facebook's IPO on Friday was the largest in the history of technology. The social network raised a staggering $12 billion, valuing the company at well over $100 billion. But after peaking more than 10% above its share price, the stock fell back to its debut price of $38.
On day two, the stock plunged deep into the red. Bleeding panicked sells like crazy, the share price of FB plummeted 12% to less than $34, sinking the company's valuation to barely $90 billion.
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When Netflix ventured into Canada, it was very quickly made available on Apple's iOS and Google's Android—the two major global players in mobile today. But Research In Motion's BlackBerry, which is still a prominent and loved platform here in its home country, got the snub.
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The best marketing videos work like a personal referral from a close colleague or friend—they kickstart relationships or remind existing contacts that you’re still competitive and relevant and ready to do business.
Let’s face it. You probably don’t have time to sit down for a one-on-one conversation with thousands of new business leads this week. Even if you do, a great digital video strategy means you can invest that development time elsewhere.
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A recently published report by comScore stated that the number of Facebook users accessing their site via mobile is outpacing those using a browser. So why hasn’t Facebook invested more in developing their mobile platform to rival that of the browser?
In Facebook’s IPO registration, they claimed to have 901 million active monthly users. That’s 90% of the total number of people using social media services according to a recent report published by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) which set the number of social media users at just over one billion. The ITU report also stated that an increasing number of users are accessing social media services via mobile.
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