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Q1 Jobs Report Documents the Rise of E-Commerce

Last week, Freelancer.com revealed the figures for what it found to be the 50 fastest growing online jobs for the first quarter of 2013. What the global outsourcing marketplace found was that the e-commerce industry continues to grow...

Mobile & Cloud, Top Trends for 2013

As the new year approaches, its time for small and medium-sized businesses to start getting connected to their customers in the cloud, as well as on mobile devices, according to a new trends report from cloud services solution provider...

Groupon Lands a Savory Platform

Groupon is sinking its teeth into the restaurant industry with its recent acquisition of Savored , which is a platform that enables diners to make free online reservations and pay lower prices at restaurants across the United States...

Hip to be Square with $200 Million

Payment technology and service provider Square has raised $200 million as part of a Series D round (bringing its total to an estimated $325 million) that included $25 million from Starbucks. While backed by some big names including...

Trend Spotting (and Funding) with Dataminr

As if you needed it, here's a little more evidence that social media remains of great interest to the venture capital crowd these days (as it should be with the Web technology worker, too) : social media analytics company Dataminr...

Privacy Comes to Mobile Ads

Mobile ad network Jumptap has partnered with Evidon to fight for consumers’ rights to privacy. The partnership between the two companies brings the AdChoices icon to in-app and mobile Web advertisements that use behavioral data...

Box Scores Big in Latest Round of Funding

The cloud computing industry is dominated by a few big names – Amazon, VMware, NetSuite, Salesforce, Dropbox, and, of course, Google always seem to take over the majority of the conversation. However, somewhat quietly in the...

ValueClick Exceeds Expectations

Digital marketing provider ValueClick, whose brand lineup includes such notable Web names as Commission Junction, GretyStripe, Dotomi, PriceRunner and others, announced its second quarter 2012 results this week. Adjusted-EBITDA and...

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Google Catches Fire in Social Media

Google is getting even more serious about social. The search engine giant recently announced its acquisition of Wildfire , a popular social media marketing platform. The ultimate goal of this acquisition, according to Google’s...

Facebook Earnings Call Highlights

Facebook held its first earnings call last week to report financial results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2012. Highlights of the earning call are below. Revenue for the second quarter totaled $1.18 billion, an increase of...

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Akamai 2Q Revenue $331 Million

Content delivery platform Akamai reported revenue for the second quarter of 2012 was $331 million, a 20 percent increase over second quarter 2011 revenue of $277 million. Net income for the second quarter of 2012 was $44 million, or...

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Amazon Sales Up 29% to $12.83 Billion

Amazon had quite the second quarter based on its most recent financial results. Net sales for the company increased 29% to $12.83 billion in the second quarter, compared with $9.91 billion in second quarter 2011. Numerous highlights...

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Best Quarter Ever for Netsuite

Cloud-based financial/ERP software provider NetSuite announced operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012. Total revenue for the second quarter of 2012 was $74.7 million, representing a 29% increase over the same...

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Movers & Shakers - Flurry, Ordoro and GoodData

Earnings (most notably Facebook's) are where much of the attention is being focused today, but rest assure, there are many other interesting developments in the Web world. Below are just a few of the funding and acquisition news...

Former Yahoo! CEO Lands at ShopRunner

Former Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson is now the CEO of ShopRunner, a service that hopes it can help retailers compete with Amazon Prime. ShopRunner is a service that allows users, for $79/annually or $8.95/monthly, to pick up packages...

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