Microsoft Corp chief executive officer Steve Ballmer. Photographer: Pankaj Nangia/Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is updating its online corporate software offerings to include a full Internet- based version of Office 2010 for the first time, an effort to stave off competition from Google Inc. (GOOG) for business accounts. The Office 365 suite of programs will be...Read More
WordPress 3 Ultimate Security, stepping out precisely how to protect the popular blogging and content management platform, is published by Packt:- Â WordPress 3 Ultimate Security – http://guv.li/wppr Written for noobs and pros alike by Olly Connelly, aka the_guv on his guvnr.com and vpsBible.com websites and @the_guv on Twitter, and published by the technical house...Read More
The Future of Search Series is supported by SES San Francisco Conference Expo, the leading search, social and display conference. From August 15-19, get five days of education, inspiration and conversations with marketing experts across the digital space. Save 20% with the code MASH20. It’s a fair bet that your boss, dates and anyone you...Read More
Matt Lawson is the vice president of marketing at Marin Software, the largest paid search management provider. For years, advertisers have run their search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) programs separately. The SEM team would focus on bidding, campaign analytics and the complex science of managing millions of keyword buys to drive...Read More
Microsoft is readying the launch of Office 365, an online productivity platform that serves as the company’s next big bet on the cloud. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to headline the June 28 event at New York City’s Skylight Soho, the same venue that hosted the Windows 7 launch in October 2009. Office 365...Read More
6-27-11: National AIDS Testing Day June 27, 2011 <!–mdmorn–> It’s National HIV-AIDS Testing Day. And it’s the first once since new research suggesting that early treatment can stop the spread of the virus. Can a “treatment as prevention†approach turn the tide of the AIDS epidemic? Today, Sheilah discusses the prospect with Derek Spencer and Robert...Read More
Optimizing your social presence for search is important, right? That is certainly what we’ve all been told for some time, but determining why it’s important and deciding where to focus can be challenging. Exponential growth of a medium is great and all, but your problems figuring out how to tame the wild beast tend to...Read More
We’re of two minds about the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to open a wide-ranging antitrust investigation of Google. On the one hand (minds, hands…hey, at least we know we’re mixing metaphors), that’s the FTC’s job. Google is a very big, sometimes dominant, player in a lot of IT markets, so it’s important to deter behavior...Read More
Account holders on WordPress.org have had their passwords reset after the discovery of contaminated code in a trio of plug-ins. “Cleverly disguised backdoors” were found in several popular plugins after suspicious commits were made to them. WordPress.org is the code repository for the popular open source WordPress blogging engine that literally powers millions of websites on the...Read More
Google Panda 2.2 is looming to drop sometime soon, and with it, increasing levels of apprehension in the small business community on fears of further collateral damage to organic search traffic. As a speaker at SES Toronto this year, I had the distinct honor of accompanying Dave Davies, Thom Craver and Terry Van Horne on...Read More
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