Google Wallet Invites you to use your Mobile phones for Offline Payments

This week Google caused quite a stir in the news announcing its new long-waited product: Google Wallet, powered by a nearly Sci-Fi technology - Near Field Communications. What it promisses to do is allow you use your mobile phone as a payment tool offline.At this point already numerous companies are tempted to participate in what's expected to become...

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This Week's E-Marketing News Round from Around the Web

In the idea of bringing up fresh and curious E-marketing News worth being aware of, I've listed below a roundup of today's search and new media headlines from around the web. This is a new practice which will be "aired" each Friday. Happy reading!Search Marketing News (SEO & PPC):Facebook, Google mull Skype deals (Reuters);A world of curiosity:...

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Mobile Shopping - 5 Major Backbones

When a retailer succeeds to perform well online, seeing conversions growth and a motivational return on investment it's time to check the audience settings, to be able to find out if there're any mobile users browsing your site and even better - becoming your customers? Use your Adwords Stats combined with Google Analytics traffic source data to find...

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Orkut Pushed via PPC - the war against Facebook goes on...

You might have heard about Orkut, which is a social network owned and operated by Google since 2004. If you haven't heard of it so far it might be because its main users are in Brazil - 48.0%, followed by India - 39.2% and United States with 2.2%.As of February 2011, Alexa traffic ranked Orkut 102nd in the world, so that the website currently has...

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Google Proof of Love: Map your Valentine!

How does Google prove its Love? By setting up a Map for your Valentine.The idea behind this special occasion tool (click to follow the link) is to help you map your Valentine so that you can send your special someone a note about that utterly special place you've shared a memory, which actually can be anything you fancy reminding him/her about, even...

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5 Most Innovative Search Engines of 2010

Search has become more diversified these days, since getting search results became an indispensable part of the overall daily web experience and it's getting more & more complex, due to a plethora of innovative technologies which just about yesterday seemed a matter of SF..Today we can use search engines that are able to understand our voice commands,...

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Is Google Launching a New "Facebook" alike Site?

The below screen shot was taken today while accessing the new Google blog post regarding Google eBooks application :Would that be a testing of the new social networking "wizardry" crafted by Google for the nearest future? Or it's an "accidental error" on Official Google blog page, which was updated in real-time?I'll leave it to your own judgement -...

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