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Google Wants to Disrupt Home Automation with $3.2 Billion Nest Acquisition

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Google has acquired smart home appliance company, Nest Labs for $3.2 Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Google EnergySense. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. billion in cash. Nest gives it a second chance.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. There are 2.9

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

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Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. What is massively different from now and when I wrote the book is that social media didn’t exist back then. I think Google+ is a great, great mechanism for enchanting people.”. I wish there were magic bullets.

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YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund

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During the latter half of 2011, Google awarded a number of leading YouTubers and nascent Internet TV networks grants of $1 million to $2 million. Although estimates of Google’s total investment vary, the industry insiders I spoke with believe it exceeded $100 million. The same phenomenon is true in the YouTube ecosystem.

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GraphDive Closes $2M Equity Round | Sees 10x Growth

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Social analytics and personalization platform GraphDive has closed $2 million in its first ever equity round from Crosslink Capital, Correlation Ventures, Plug & Play Tech Center, Start Capital and angel investors Pejman Nozad, Ullas Naik and Scott Banister. $2 Social login tools. Power to harness the social data revolution.

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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Zite | Your Personalized Magazine

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Then we took a giant leap with social media integration. Zite, which was acquired by CNN in late 2011, is a personalized magazine to help clean up all that content overload we deal with on the web when trying to catch up on the days current events and instead delivers content based on your personal interest.