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Smartphones: The silent killer of the Web as you know it

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by on May 4, 2014 at 10:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Opinion

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The PC is dying, long live the PC! These headlines have been thrown around for years, as sales of laptops and desktops have continually dwindled downward. The tablet has long been pinned as the murderer of the traditional computers and it certainly looked like it was going to be the one to do away with them (perhaps in a few years), with the focus of many companies such as Apple and Microsoft shifting towards a tablet-first world. It’s obvious from the steadily declining shipments of traditional computers and companies exiting the PC market, that it’s not looking good for PCs, with tablets regularly…

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10 mobile marketing statistics to help justify your budget

May04
by on May 4, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, Social Media

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Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a professional speaker and freelance writer. This post originally appeared on the Adknowledge blog. Many marketers have experienced it: presenting a case to superiors for a larger budget or defending how they spent the existing budget. At times, it can be a difficult process with lots of push back and discussion, while other times it’s an easy conversation due to the success of your spending decisions or widespread internal buy-in. Either way, budget management is a critical aspect of your role as a marketer, or soon will be at one point in your career. Your marketing budget should…

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April in Latin America: All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from the past month

May04
by on May 4, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Latin America, Roundups

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April was a busy month in Latin America, particularly in Brazil, where companies have been in a rush to get things done before the FIFA World Cup. Here’s the news you don’t want to miss: Big players Chinese tech giant Huawei has moved its Latin American headquarters from Brazil to Argentina, where it already had offices, InfoTechnology reported. The move will reportedly cost $20 million and generate 200 additional jobs in Argentina. Samsung is launching a new project called Ocean Brasil, Brazilian media outlet Tela Viva News reported. It consists of physical training centers for developers, the first one of…

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Who needs coffee while they’re sleeping? Why companies need to embrace location-based marketing

May04
by on May 4, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Social Media

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Yoshi Tuk is a freelance journalist. Maria Golovanova is an international Communication and Media student with a passion for online marketing, journalism and travel. Do you often receive useless notifications from the apps on your phone when you are asleep, taking a shower, or some other random inconvenient location and time? Every Saturday morning, I wake up to a ton of notifications inviting me to check out the latest sales or use coupons for discounted coffee, or some other ridiculously unnecessary offer irrelevant to my current state of mind. Companies that are doing this must stop! It is bad and useless marketing that is spammy…

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3 reasons why every CEO should do their own customer support

May04
by on May 4, 2014 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO of Freshdesk, a SaaS based customer support software.  Some may know me as the CEO of Freshdesk, but I like to introduce myself as a Support Guy who went on to become a CEO. Thirteen years ago, I started my career as a pre-sales engineer offering support to complex tech projects. A few years later, I became a Product Manager and directly oversaw the customer support and pre-sales teams for several years before deciding to launch Freshdesk.  Today, our company has over 18,000 customers. Because we offer free support, our agents deal with more than 500 queries…

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