Most people have a love hate relationship with SEO. Even people not overly familiar with the Internet know that getting to the top of the Google rankings will get them more business. Some people think the complete opposite and go as far assaying that it’s bullshit. Most large companies spend a fortune on influencing search results and there is no doubt that done well it drives sales or at least business leads....
The social Web has transformed the travel industry, as the infographic here explains. It’s been created byTripl, a new Swedish-based travel startup that will allow travel companies to sell their products more socially to consumers, with a full API being made available to third party developers. Some of the stats that caught our eye below include the ‘Social Travel Index’ (More information on thathere) and that 96% of university students are on Facebook (in the USat least)....
What do Taylor Swift’s record company and Asian “super-app” Grab have in common? They are both part of Wall Street’s recent dealmaking fad: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC). SPACs are shell companies that are floated on the stock market with one purpose: to buy another company. This aims to achieve the same as a stock-market listing or initial public offering (IPO) but in reverse. Instead of a traditional company seeking to raise capital from investors through an IPO, with SPACs the empty listed company is set up first....
How the US is setting itself up for a future of electric vehicles General Motors makes a commitment Years ago, Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, and Eisenhower’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, famously said, “What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.” Democrats on the committee focused on the vice versa of the statement, but in the modern case, it may actually be true either way....
If you’ve paid even the slightest bit of attention to technology news of late, you can’t have failed to have noticed that patents are a hot story right now. However, much of what is being discussed relates to US companies; what’s the situation on the other side of the Atlantic? Software patents have been at the core of a number of high-profile battles lately. We’ve seen a number of companies banding together to buy up swathes of mobile patents in a move thatcould bring down Androidas a popular operating system; it seems like just about every smartphone manufacturer issuingsomeone, if not all the others; meanwhile patent holding company Lodsys hasthreateneda wide range of targets, including small independent iPhone and Android developers, over alleged infringements of its patents, threatening their livelihoods....
