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Is There Room for a Klout for Professionals?The 3-year-old Klout has already become the industry standard for measuring social media reach and influence, but the company no longer has that market to itself. The Sarasota, Fla.-based PROskore is testing the waters for a sort of Klout for professionals, though PROskore CEO Bill Jula would lik... Schmap Releases Tool to Break Down the Demographics of Your Twitter FollowersThe Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Know Your Twitter Followers Quick Pitch: Know Your Twitter Followers takes Twitter one... Samsung, Others Snap Up Nokia’s Declining Share of Mobile MarketNokia‘s share of the global handset market fell 5% in the third quarter compared to the same period a year ago. However, Nokia still owns the largest portion of the market, having shipped 106.6 million mobile phones — or 27.3% of all mobile phones sent to vendors — in the last q... Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Reflects on What Went WrongNetflix CEO Reed Hastings says entrepreneurs can’t be afraid to move fast on enormous opportunities, even when mistakes are made. At the f.ounders conference in Dublin, Hastings openly discussed the controversies that have erupted at Netflix since its decision to raise prices. He explained ... Dropbox for Teams Offers a Terabyte of Space, Centralized BillingIf you have a crowd of people collaborating with large files synchronized by Dropbox, you might be interested in this new offering from the online file synchronization service, called Dropbox for Teams. It works the same way as the regular Dropbox service, where if you put files into a Dropbox f... First Motorola Droid4 Photos Surface [PICS]The first photos of Motorola’s next big Android 4G LTE release, the Droid4, have surfaced, just one day after the handset manufacturer’s super-thin, super-light, 4G-sporting Motorola Droid Razr went on sale at Verizon. The biggest difference between the Droid Razr and the Droid4 is ... 3 Tips for Improving Customer Engagement in SaaS ApplicationsGuy Nirpaz is the CEO and co-founder of Totango, which analyzes user actions on SaaS applications, providing sales teams invaluable information in qualifying prospects and prioritizing people to contact who are most likely to buy (or renew). Customer engagement is key for software-as-a-service (S... How Hotels and Travel Companies Are Nailing Social MediaThe Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform of marketing software and tools for lead generation tools. Apart from restaurants, there are few businesses whose fates are linked as closely to online re... The Guardian Launches Twitter-Based Search BotThe Guardian unveiled a Twitter-based search bot Thursday. Users can search for content on The Guardian‘s website by tweeting a question or keyword(s) to @GuardianTagBot. The bot will immediately tweet back a link to a search results page on guardian.co.uk. For example, users could tweet, &... Why Hasn’t Yahoo Been Acquired Yet?Despite the alleged intentions of its board, as well as rumored interest from Google and Microsoft, among others, momentum for a potential acquisition of Yahoo has stalled. But why? The company’s sale has been thwarted by its “lack of strategy” and “restrictive confidentia... |