Social Media

Is Groupon Indicative Of A Failed Model Of Corporate Greed?

June 1, 2012

Groupon went public in November 2011 at $20 per share to much over-hyped fanfare as is now the norm on Wall Street. The stock ran up to over $30 then plunged below the IPO price as it became painfully aware to investors that there was more fluff in Groupon’s business model and hocus-pocus accounting practices [...]

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Lennon & Maisy Stella’s Cover Of Call Your Girlfriend Going Viral

May 31, 2012

This is perhaps the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. Sisters Lennon and Maisy Stella going a’cappella on their cover of Call Your Girlfriend, originally performed by Robyn and covered later (a’cappella) by Erato. Twelve year old Lennon has some guitar chops too. Check out their other videos on YouTube. The counter is currently showing only [...]

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Can Your Social Media Sharing Earn You A Paycheck?

May 28, 2012

Klout.com measures the social media influence of 85 million social media users around the world. Brands actually reward top Klout users with cool things like iPads and smart phones. Other such social influence tracking sites are popping up all over undoubtedly with their eye on monetizing social influence. Our question is how far will this [...]

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Move Over FourSquare – Here Comes Belly

May 27, 2012

FourSquare, the popular check-in app has a new competitor on the block. They’re called Belly and they combine check-ins with loyalty rewards in a winning combination that is taking the loyalty rewards space by storm. Imagine walking into your favorite doughnut shop or java joint and holding your iPhone up to the store’s Belly iPad [...]

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Inside Sources Leak Facebook Contemplating Purchase of Opera Browser

May 26, 2012

Awash in cash from their less-than-stellar IPO, Facebook will undoubtedly go on a buying spree, snatching up much needed strategic components to shore up its cross-platform footprint. Already, talk of a Facebook phone is widely circulating in the blog-o-sphere. Now, a credible source has leaked to Pocket-Lint.com that Facebook is eyeballing Opera as a potential [...]

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The 19 Year Old Entrepreneur Who Squatted At AOL To Launch His Start Up

May 26, 2012

The story of how Eric Simons, just two years removed from a Chicago high school, came to be living in AOL’s Palo Alto campus could well become part of Silicon Valley lore, especially because it highlights the lengths some entrepreneurs will go to make their dreams a reality. And though stories abound these days of [...]

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Air Your Dirty Little Secrets On PostSecret.com – It’s Absolutely Scandalous

May 24, 2012

A dude comes out to his best friend. Worst mistake he ever made. A woman has a love child with a famous man. He pays through the nose to keep it quiet. A young coed is stripping her way through college. She is suicidal. A married woman convinces her husband to join a three-way. Marital [...]

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Morgan Stanley, Facebook Sued Over IPO – Did We Expect Anything Less?

May 23, 2012

Did we really expect anything less from the Facebook IPO? It was oversubscribed, overvalued, over-hyped, and overblown more than any other IPO in history. While Facebook stock will most likely prove to be an excellent investment like Google or Apple its IPO was still a recipe for a classic Wall Street swindle. Enter Morgan Stanley, [...]

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Funny Ronald Reagan Letter To 7th Grader Goes Viral On Twitter

May 21, 2012

An amusing letter from former President Ronald Reagan in response to a 13-year-old boy’s request for disaster relief funds to clean up his room is making the rounds again on social media, thanks to a blog writer. Shaun Usher of Letters of Note tweeted the classic correspondence. Seventh-grader Andy Smith from Irmo, South Carolina, wrote [...]

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College Grad Wipes Out $90k Of Student Debt In 7 Months

May 19, 2012

Economists are increasingly worried that many young Americans will spend coming years buried under student debt. Joe Mihalic was determined not to be one of them. Faced with $90,000 in student debt from his days at Harvard Business School, Mihalic vowed last August to eliminate every penny by this summer. He did — three months [...]

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