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Do you know that wireless or mobile app developers can actually rent smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone 3G S, G1 Android and BlackBerry Storm? Such rentals can now help developers fully test their applications on wide range of mobile devices.iPhone 3G S rentals for mobile app developers (includes other smartphones)mc CCTake a look at Wavefront for an example. Wavefront is a Canadian company

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Learn how to get 1,000 free professionally-printed business cards. Take note that the opportunity is time limited!1,000 Free Business Cards8-30.pl CCI’m not feeling well today so I will make this short and simple. You see, we have a little lucky draw going on right now and the lucky winner stands the chance to get 1,000 free business cards courtesy of AllBusinessCards. The good news is that we

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Let’s take a quick look at the anatomy of a PayPal Phishing Scam email. This is based on the real thing since I received one recently.Anatomy of a PayPal Phishing Scam emailHome Biss CCHome Biss CCHome Biss CCOverall theme (1st image from the top) looks and feels like the real thing. At one glance, the unsuspecting email recipient will think that the email really came from PayPal.A closer look at

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AdWords advertisers can get higher click-through rates simply by integrating Google Checkout with their AdWords campaigns.Google says that:…Google Checkout users click on ads 10% more when the ad displays the Checkout badge and convert 40% more than shoppers who have not used Checkout in the past…If that is not enough to convince you, Google also say that Ritz Interactive’s click-through rate saw

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You can make money by designing video ad templates for ToonieAds, a new advertising network created by Canada’s ToonieAds Inc.ToonieAds has a very interesting business or money-making opportunity for video-savvy people out there. If you are fond of making and publishing videos, you can make a little bit of money (perhaps lots of money if ToonieAds really takes off) by creating video ad templates

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Web 2.0 Marketing Secrets revealed, as discovered by The Wall Street Journal and there are 7 basic Web 2.0 Marketing principles that you should know.surfstyle CCThe Wall Street Journal recently interviewed more than 30 managers and executives in business organizations that are involved in Web 2.0 marketing. From their interviews, The Wall Street Journal found a common set of principles that can

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Mykl Roventine CCWe have reports buzzing around right now saying that Google has quietly laid off employees and up to 10,000 employees could be sacked in the next couple of months. The unknown fact is that hundreds of Google employees have been laid off ever since August 2008 and majority of them were recruiters for Google.The laying offs were not reported to SEC since Google has found a way to

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Yodel Anecdotal CCAs anticipated, Yahoo’s stock bounced up at opening today, a day after Jerry Yang announced that he will step down from the post of Yahoo CEO. Yahoo opened at $11.94 compared to yesterday’s close of $10.63.It sure looks like as if the American tech market has more confidence in Yahoo now, it only shows that many believe Jerry Yang is not the right person to lead Yahoo especially

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Yodel Anecdotal CCYahoo! At long last, the Chinese-looking Jerry Yang steps down from the post of Yahoo CEO, much to the delight of tech blogs and tech geeks all over the world!Press Release:Yahoo! Conducting Search for New CEOCo-Founder Jerry Yang to Step Down Following Appointment of New CEOand Return to Former Role as Chief Yahoo! and Board MemberSUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE)

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zimpenfish CCThe manufacturer of Motrin created what is probably the dumbest video ad in American history quite recently. Their video ad was not only dumb but it is also very offensive and it has pissed off babywearing parents in America! I took a quick peek at their stupid video ad (shown down below) and it pisses me off too since I’m a babywearing dad and I’m proud of being one!Many were

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Tech blogs such as TechCrunch reported that Jing Hua Wu, the SiPort employee that shot down and killed three SiPort executives last Friday was laid off but the latest news said otherwise. Jing Hua Wu was not laid off after all; he was actually fired, sacked from his job. Apparently, the killing happened a few hours after he has been sacked!

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kevindooley CCSun Microsystems released a sensational press release earlier today but this time it is not about cloud computing, their SUN servers or UltraSPARC processors. It is all about layoffs! Yes, Mighty America will witness another round of massive layoffs in the next few weeks, no thanks to Sun Microsystems that has made the decision to layoff 5,000 to 6,000 of their employees. I have no

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There are many ways to make money from videos and social networks but Jenae from Girl in Your Shirt really puts those desperate internet and affiliate marketers to shame with her ingenious online money making venture.Jenae is just another American chick but she has brains, lots of brains and she’s using them to make cool money for herself. She has come up with an ingenious business concept that

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I could not help but laugh when I read Erick Schonfeld’s latest post just now. It is probably one of his best posts at TechCrunch so far. Now, I really like the way he describes YouTube’s latest desperate attempt to make money from videos. Erick said ‘…selling off video search results to the sexiest bidders…’. Bwah! Ha! Ha! Right on the Dot, baby!… YouTube is resorting to selling off video search

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Mark Mahaney, Citigroup Investment Research’s Internet Analyst has some disturbing news about the online or internet advertising industry:…we are going into “almost surely the worst economic environment in our collective lifetimes.” And the tone of the messages from search marketers has changed dramatically. He says “We didn’t uncover a single source that thought business trends were going to

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I wonder what would happen to mighty Yahoo if their stock price dives and plunges below $10. The scenario is not at all impossible since Yahoo hit $10.02 yesterday, making it the new lowest 52-Week Low for Yahoo stock!Gnal CCMany believe that Yahoo stock is undervalued, at the same time they believe that Jerry Yang (current Yahoo CEO) should step down and let someone else more capable to takeover

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Holy Goat!PriveCo, the world’s most private company (Go and check Guinness World Records. Is it there?), has acquired Vibrators Dot Com (Internet’s most popular s*x toy store?) for a whopping $1 million American dollars!Oh, they bought a domain name, I thought something else. I’m glad PriveCo is not paying that huge amount of money to buy a stinking vibrator. ;-)To answer critics that made a lot

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Neil Boothman CCThat’s a very hard question to answer but let’s take a look at Dapper and their new MashupAds.How Dapper MashupAds Can Save Display Advertising from Paul Knegten on Vimeo.As someone who has years of painful experience with Google AdWords, I can seriously say here today that Dapper’s MashupAds is couple of times better than Google AdWords. This is because Dapper’s MashupAds lets

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KeyStream launches SmartAd (read their official press release) earlier today, giving video publishers the opportunity to monetize their videos and advertisers the much awaited opportunity to place ads in free/blank spaces in videos.A few hours after the announcement, Robin Wauters from TechCrunch gave KeyStream and their new video advertising platform a blatant bashing. She said:…they still have

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wohnai CCUnder normal circumstances, American and European college students save money on their expensive college textbooks by buying used textbooks but do you know that nowadays they can rent new and used college textbooks online?Thanks to Chegg, college students may now rent college textbooks and there are millions of new and used textbooks to choose from. Chegg offers college students great

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Fact: Officially, YouTube was created by three former PayPal employees; Steve Chen Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim back in 2005.Controversy: One guy from out of nowhere says that he too has a hand in YouTube’s creation. He claims that YouTube’s name and concept were his ideas. No, that guy is not Hubert Chang. It’s a new guy this time around that goes by the name of Herbert Elwood Gilliland

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Yes, I’m afraid it’s true. Google has dumped StarOffice! StarOffice one time ago was considered as one of the most popular choice of downloadable free software in Google Pack but now it is no longer in the list.Hmm… I think Google dumped StarOffice because they want people to take serious notice of Google Docs that have improved much in the last few months. Thanks to ReadWriteWeb for giving us

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rick CCI find it hard to believe but TechCrunch reported that iKobo is shutting down with immediate effect. iKobo users are no longer allowed to transfer money and their iKobo Visa Prepaid cards will continue to be active until November 13th 2008. iKobo however assures users that their funds will be save even after their cards have been deactivated.To those promoting iKobo's affiliate program, it

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Check out Snapily, a new internet startup that launches to the public earlier today. Snapily allows you to create your very own 3D morphing animated prints and you can print those on business cards, greeting cards, invitation cards, scrapbooks, small or large notebooks. They are all available at Snapily but they’re not free products/services of course. :-)Since Snapily is new and nobody really

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Yodel Anecdotal CCJerry Yang, the current CEO of Yahoo is under tremendous pressure right now. His dream of seeing Yahoo working together with Google to spice up their under-performing online advertising revenue has shattered and gone up in smokes. Let’s not forget the disturbing fact that many top decision makers at Yahoo have left the company and many tech observers and top tech blogs have been

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