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How to Register Your New Business NameYou’ve brainstormed, polled your family and friends and conducted some kind of focus group testing. You’ve come up with a cool domain name. Finally, you’ve crossed one of the trickiest hurdles for any new business — finding the right name for your new brand. But not so fast. Before y... The Most-Shared 2012 Super Bowl Ad Teasers So Far [VIDEOS]With the Super Bowl less than two weeks away, advertisers are following one of two plays: Remain completely mum about what they’re going to do, or attempt to maximize that $3.5 million ad spend with teaser videos on YouTube. Actually, there’s a third option as well: Run a contest with... Tumblr Hits 15 Billion Monthly Pageviews [AUDIO]After an explosive 2011, Tumblr is rolling full steam into the new year with impressive numbers that highlight the microblogging platform’s continue growth: 15 billion monthly pageviews and 120 million monthly unique visitors. Tumblr CEO David Karp revealed the statistics in Munich this wee... Tumblr Hits 15 Billion Monthly PageviewsAfter an explosive 2011, Tumblr is rolling full steam into the new year with impressive numbers that highlight the microblogging platform’s continue growth: 15 billion monthly pageviews and 120 million monthly unique visitors. Tumblr CEO David Karp revealed the statistics in Munich this wee... 29 Percent of U.S. Adults Own a Tablet or Ereader [STUDY]19 percent of adults in the United States own a tablet, and 29 percent own either a tablet or an ereader, according to the latest study from Pew Internet. What’s amazing about these findings is that the share of U.S. adults who own tablets nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-Decembe... 29% of U.S. Adults Own a Tablet or Ereader [STUDY]Nineteen percent of adults in the United States own a tablet, and 29% own either a tablet or an ereader, according to the latest study from Pew Internet. What’s amazing about these findings is that the share of U.S. adults who own tablets nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December... Handle This: Google+ Finally Allows PseudonymsThe Google+ Common Name policy will never be the same. Google promised it would take a close look at the requirement that only real names and identities reside on its seven-month-old social network, and now the search giant has reversed course, allowing both nicknames and full-fledged pseudonyms ... Consumers Want Online Video Ads No More Than 15 Seconds LongWant to capture customer attention with online video ads? They’d better not be more than 15 seconds long, a new poll suggests. According to a survey by Poll Position, about 54% of Americans think 15 seconds is the acceptable time to view an online video ad before seeing free content, from ... FileSonic Blocks File Sharing After Megaupload BustFileSonic, an online “digital locker” that provides users with 10GB of free storage for 30 days, has shut down the service’s file-sharing functions. The move is evidently a reaction to the bust on rival service Megaupload, which was shut down after police arrested its founder o... Take That, Twitter: Chinese Site Beats Tweets per Second RecordSina Weibo, one of China’s premiere microblogs and alternatives to Twitter, saw a record number of messages sent per second Monday, in honor of the Chinese New Year. Kicking off the Year of the Dragon, the new record — 32,312 messages per second — trounces Twitter’s recor... |