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Groupon’s US Revenue Numbers Falling

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Yahoo alum, Rob Solomn, suddenly left the company around middle March 2011. Share this on LinkedIn. If the potential for growth in the U.S. is truly dwindling for Groupon, then it would make sense that the company needs to look at international markets. Groupon President Rob Solomon Left. Did he see something wrong? Tweet This!

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Review of the Online Group Buying Industry

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Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Groupon didn’t accept the $6 billion buyout offer from Google, which is being compared to the failed $1 billion buyout offer from Yahoo to Facebook back in 2006. Share this on LinkedIn. However, on December 2010, Groupon joined the hall of fame of entrepreneurs who have said no to Big Money.

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8 Open Source Projects from Google

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Originally developed by Google, the foundation that supports the project is now supported by Hi5, MySpace, Yahoo, and many others. Share this on LinkedIn. Unlike other proprietary social network application platforms, OpenSocial is free and open. Planning a hike across Nepal with a group of buddies from around the world? Tweet This!

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4 Tools to Streamline Your Social Media Outreach

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The service syncs multiple chat accounts (including AIM, Facebook, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber) into one portal and contact list. It does the same thing for email, filtering Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and any other POP or IMAP account into a single inbox. Best of all, it’s free. What social aggregators have you used?

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How to Harness the Power of the Internet for Branding

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Take a look at the top ten from list of top 500 sites from Alexa and you will find that search engines, including Google (#1), Baidu (#4), Yahoo (#6), and Google India (#7), and social media sites, including YouTube (#2), Facebook (#3), Reddit (#8), and Twitter (#12), dominate this list most of the time around the world.

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Using Linkbait to Build Traffic And Subscribers

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Links can be tracked with the aid of Webmaster tools, Yahoo Site Explorer and so on. Share this on LinkedIn. To do this use the following as a guide: The number of Facebook shares, tweets, digs, reddit votes received by your content. The links and the referral logs will reveal if any influences in your niche has picked up your content.

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