The Miles Davis Trumpet in-ear headphones by Monster may not give you the most sound quality for the dollar, but they have lovely aesthetics.

Welcome back for part three of our four-part roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
In part one, posted Tuesday, we discussed the controversy surrounding Lean In as well as the element of fear and how it plays into women’s career paths…

Today marks seven years since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, sent the very first tweet, kicking-off a social media  phenomena that has grown to 200 million active users sending more than 400 million tweets daily. Dorsey served as Twitter’s CEO until 2008 when he became the…

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Apple’s Podcasts app for iOS was probably one of its most controversial releases — thousands of users have complained in the iTunes Store about bugs, lag, and a UI that takes Apple’s skeuomorphic tendencies to the extreme. The company is trying to make things right with jilted users with the latest update to the app, which is available to download now…

In a survey recently conducted by mobile video site Vuclip, 61 percent of men surveyed claim that their cell phone is the first thing people notice about them. Women trail slightly with just 38 percent of those surveyed saying the same.

Apple has just issued Podcasts version 1.2, which brings a long list of improvements to the iOS app. Among the changes are a new feature that lets users generate their own custom playlists with any podcasts they choose, with auto-updating of new episodes for each. Stations are stored in iCloud and synced across devices, and users can choose to start with either the most recent episode or oldest unplayed one…

There’s nothing worse than a scratched or broken phone screen, but thanks to advances in sapphire production, the world’s second hardest substance may soon protect your phone. We check out sapphire at Mobile World Congress.

A year ago, Kiip ran a “Build Fund” contest for independent developers, offering $100,000 in prizes. Founder and CEO Brian Wong told me recently that the fund was supposed to be a one-off promotion, but this year, enough developers asked if he was going to do it again that, indeed, he’s doing it again…

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has brought a bill that would require police to get a warrant before pulling location data from phones or GPS devices. Wyden, along with Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Mark Kirk (R-IL), are reintroducing the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance or GPS Act after a first attempt in 2011 failed to make progress…

SoundCloud has big ambitions — the company wants to leverage new partnerships with artists to become the leading destination for users to connect with musicians they’re interested in. To that end, the company’s releasing new iOS and Android apps today that add a few key features as well as a nice visual refresh (iOS only)…

Dorothy isn’t the only one who had to follow the Yellow Brick road to find her way home; we all need to follow a path to find our way to success, and the app market is no different. The app market for both iOS and Android is beginning to become overcrowded. Apple first opened its [...]

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Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the Web. From Marketing Land: Is Android Vs. Chrome A Metaphor For Apps Vs. Mobile Web? Google’s early fantasy about mobile was that apps would eventually lose favor in…

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BlackBerry has now issued a statement confirming that its relationship is still on with the Department of Defense — for its sake hopefully closing the loop on the story that started with reports that the DoD would be dumping its deal with the troubled Canadian handset maker, once a mainstay of business users, who are now migrating to Apple and Android devices…

There’s no getting around it: the search experience on Quora was never all that great. As you typed a search, Quora would show results if your text was found in a question, in a topic name, or a user’s name. And rather than get a page of matching search results, you’d have to…

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Content marketing is well-known for generating a multitude of benefits, including increased traffic, enhanced brand awareness and better search engine rankings. It’s also a great way to boost your company’s reputation, positioning you as a thought-leader within your industry.
These are some great benefits and can be achieved without massive cost and time outgoings – particularly if you’re using a combination of in-house and external resources – but in this day and age Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) want to see bang for their buck…

Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European consumers react to different types of advertising/marketing content…

Browsers today are able to execute JavaScript code significantly faster than just a few years ago, but even as our web apps now look more like desktop apps, JavaScript performance is still a far cry from what you can expect from a native program written in something like C or C++. To bridge this gap, Mozilla launched the asm…

Instagram is currently experiencing major problems with its instagr.am URL shortener, which has resulted in photos being unavailable across Twitter and Facebook. Substituting the full Instagram domain (i.e.: instagram.com/p/xxxx) seems to be a temporary fix, but the massively popular photo app utilizes the shortener by default — meaning any photo you share to social networks can’t be viewed at the moment…

Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European consumers react to different types of advertising/marketing content…

Over the past year, Bing’s been steadily growing the “Snapshots” it shows on the right-hand side of its pages. Now Bing says those are taking another leap to better understand relationships between people, places and things using an expansion of what it calls its…

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Last week at SMX West, I was on the “SEM Best Practices Debate” panel. Several of the topics we debated were related to Enhanced Campaigns, clearly something on the minds of search marketers these days. This month, I’ll recap a few take-aways from the event and share some ideas for…

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Content marketing is well-known for generating a multitude of benefits, including increased traffic, enhanced brand awareness and better search engine rankings. It’s also a great way to boost your company’s reputation, positioning you as a thought-leader within your industry.
These are some great benefits and can be achieved without massive cost and time outgoings – particularly if you’re using a combination of in-house and external resources – but in this day and age Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) want to see bang for their buck…

Last week at SMX West, I was on the “SEM Best Practices Debate” panel. Several of the topics we debated were related to Enhanced Campaigns, clearly something on the minds of search marketers these days. This month, I’ll recap a few take-aways from the event and share some ideas for…

Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…

Content marketing is well-known for generating a multitude of benefits, including increased traffic, enhanced brand awareness and better search engine rankings. It’s also a great way to boost your company’s reputation, positioning you as a thought-leader within your industry.
These are some great benefits and can be achieved without massive cost and time outgoings – particularly if you’re using a combination of in-house and external resources – but in this day and age Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) want to see bang for their buck…

Over the past year, Bing’s been steadily growing the “Snapshots” it shows on the right-hand side of its pages. Now Bing says those are taking another leap to better understand relationships between people, places and things using an expansion of what it calls its…

Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…

BlackBerry announced earlier today that its BlackBerry World content portal has officially crossed the 100,000 app marker, and has chosen to celebrate by talking up availability of some select, high-profile apps. New Amazon Kindle, OpenTable and Wall Street Journal apps have already gone live in the market, and BlackBerry has said that eBay, Skype, Soundhound, and Viber (just to name a few) are being prepped for launches in the “coming weeks…

Search engines are increasingly moving from lists of content to directories that figure out what you want and highlight it. In Bing, that means Snapshot, a sidebar that appears for popular searches like “Abraham Lincoln” with photos, short biographies, and related information. Today, Microsoft is expanding Snapshot to pull in more information from search patterns and social networks…

Why do social signals matter to search? What types of content do search engines respond to? Bing’s Duane Forrester discusses social SEO dos and don’ts, and what areas businesses should invest in to win in the search “Game of Thrones”.

Content marketing is well-known for generating a multitude of benefits, including increased traffic, enhanced brand awareness and better search engine rankings. It’s also a great way to boost your company’s reputation, positioning you as a thought-leader within your industry.
These are some great benefits and can be achieved without massive cost and time outgoings – particularly if you’re using a combination of in-house and external resources – but in this day and age Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) want to see bang for their buck…

If you work in search, PR or content marketing, you may have experienced an alarming drop off in Google Alerts recently.
Search pioneers and industry specific verticals that rely heavily on tracking competitors via Google Alerts have recently noticed the feed slow to a trickle of what it used to be, but the show must go on!
So, here are some ingenious alternatives from the experts to keep you plugged in…

Changing the application and enrollments patterns of high-achieving, low-income students will probably take an enormous amount of initial work. Over time, though, the work will get easier.

NBC is planning for Jimmy Fallon to take over the “Tonight” show from Jay Leno, a new campaign seeks to diminish the digital divide in the United States, and the new Big East conference kicked off at News Corporation’s headquarters.

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at his Startup Blog, BothSidesoftheTable.
I recently wrote a blog post in which I pointed out that many investors and advisors discourage enterprise startups from having a professional services (PS) business and I think this is a big mistake…

The world of language learning startups is going international. Today, Berlin-based Babbel, which creates online and mobile-based language learning courses, is buying PlaySay, a TC Disrupt finalist that focused on creating mobile apps that turned the process of learning languages into a game — modelled somewhat loosely on the back-and-forth paired-play concept of “Draw Something…