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#Selfie Is The Word Of The Year

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So much so that the Oxford Dictionaries have named ”selfie” the 2013 International Word of the Year. As Mashable notes, Oxford has been awarding the title of word of the year since 2004. Earlier this year, selfie was also added to the dictionary, along with words like twerk, emoji and FOMO.

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Facebook’s $5 billion IPO: By the numbers

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Mark Zuckerberg’s annual compensation starting 2013, “following his idol Steve Jobs,” says TechCrunch. Initial investment by billionaire Peter Thiel in 2004 in exchange for 44.7 Percentage of Facebook owned by Mark Zuckerberg; his personal worth could potentially grow to a “ staggering ” $24 billion.

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Predictions Revisited: Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies That Might Change Social Media

Ignite Social Media

It was one of the top buzzwords, only to fall off around 2013. Fitness trackers really didn’t become a fad until late 2013. Search interest of “Artificial Intelligence” has waned since 2004, though it is currently on an upward trajectory that started around 2013. Augmented Reality.

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4 Brands Embracing Diversity in Their Content

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ThirdLove, which launched in 2013, is a lingerie company created in response to the frustration the co-founders (and countless other women) felt when trying to find bras that fit real bodies. Dove’s Real Beauty campaign launched in 2004 and continues to run over a decade later. ThirdLove .

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Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is Now Called Globe Life Park in Arlington

Bill Hartzer

Back in 2004, the Texas Rangers sold the naming rights to a company called Ameriquest Mortgage Co. and renamed what was then The Ballpark in Arlington to Ameriquest Field in 2004. Creation Date: 2013-08-27 13:29:51. The Rangers Ballpark in Arlington will now be called Globe Life Park in Arlington. Registrar URL: [link].

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

In contrast, Facebook was founded in February 2004 and only took in its first outside funding of 12.7 In late 2013, Myspace users numbered approximately 36 million–less than half the number of unique users Myspace had at its peak in Late 2008. million dollars from Accel Partners in May 2005. In 2006, Myspace was the most visited U.S.

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Apps Are Media

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But, when I started writing about this idea that content is media (around 2004), it was taken with a massive dose of skepticism. Marketing is a game of real estate (a topic I dug deep into while writing my second business book, CTRL ALT Delete , which was published in 2013). Many industry luminaries thought it was way off.