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Only 26% of Consumers Think Facebook Storefronts Secure Against Fraud [STUDY]Facebook still has a long way to go when it comes to instilling trust in consumers, according to a new study that shows only 26% believe storefronts on the social network are safe against fraud. The online survey, conducted by ThreatMetrix and The Ponemon Institute of a pool of 800 consumers this... 5 Ways to Win at Website LocalizationRobert Laing is the founder of myGengo, a 500 Startups company that helps businesses all over the world go global with convenient, affordable and high quality human translation service that scales. Let’s delve into the topic of website localization to learn exactly what every company needs ... Today’s Top Stories: Best Buy’s Christmas Woes, Louis CK’s $1 MillionWelcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Best Buy Can’t Send All Online Orders Before Christmas Best Buy said it wonR... As Users Rail Against GoDaddy, Unpacking the SOPA Supporter List [VIDEO]GoDaddy is one of more than a hundred companies catching flak online for supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Many website operators have threatened to move their domains away from GoDaddy, and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham has said SOPA-supporting companies will no longer b... Amazon 2012: What the Future May Hold for the Web’s Largest RetailerFor Amazon, it’s going to be hard to top 2011. After all, this was the year the gargantuan online retailer launched a cloud storage service, opened the doors on its own Appstore, and released a tablet, the Kindle Fire, that happens to be selling like crazy. Looking at the bigger picture, th... Chevrolet’s Super Bowl Ad Choice Will Be a Viral VideoChevrolet will pick the most-shared video among a pool of about 40 crowdsourced videos to determine which will run in next year’s Super Bowl. The General Motors brand on Thursday presented about 35 of the films on ChevroletRoute66.msn.com. Chevy will award prizes of up to $10,000 to the cont... Google Search Launches Fill-in-the-Caption Contest for CartoonsGoogle Search has put its own spin on the conventional caption-writing contest. To test your wit, it wants you to view a cartoon in which one of the characters is performing a Google search. Your task is to write a word or phrase to illustrate what that character is searching for. Each ... 27% of Photos and Videos Now Captured on Smartphones [STUDY]More than a quarter of photos and videos shot by individuals in the U.S. are now being captured by smartphones, according to an online survey of 3,300 Internet users ages 13 and up. Sales data suggest smartphones are replacing consumers’ need for low-end point-and-shoot cameras and camcorde... FedEx Guy Destroys PC Monitor, But Not All FedEx Guys Are Like That [VIDEO UPDATED]After you watch this video, you might have a bad taste in your mouth about FedEx delivery personnel. But I think this guy is an aberration, an outlier against a corps of FedEx employees that I’ve noticed are second to none. See update below: FedEx responds with a video of its own. Before we... FedEx Guy Destroys PC Monitor, But Not All FedEx Guys Are Like That [VIDEO]After you watch this video, you might have a bad taste in your mouth about FedEx delivery personnel. But I think this guy is an aberration, an outlier against a corps of FedEx employees that I’ve noticed are second to none. See update below: FedEx responds with a video of its own. Befor... |