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4 Implications of Microsoft’s Acquisition of LinkedIn

CommLab India

Ginny Marvin, in her article The Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal: What it means for advertisers , states the purchase of LinkedIn opens doors for Microsoft that efforts such as the Windows Phone and its search advertising partnership with Yahoo failed to provide. The purchase can help Microsoft compete with Google in the mobile arena.

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New Literacies

Tony Karrer

What do these companies have in common: Google eBay Yahoo Amazon MapQuest Craigslist Wikipedia YouTube Built on top of Linux (open source). Statistics. He uses the same quote I often use from William Gibson - The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Pattern recognition is key. Not packaged apps.

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Cybersecurity Virtual Training Benefits with Hands-On Labs

Cloudshare

This statistic is not surprising considering how many data breaches have transpired on the news from various high-profile companies such as Facebook, Yahoo, and Equifax. That’s why corporate spending on cybersecurity went up 9% on average per company last year according to Juniper’s 2018 Cybercrime Report.

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Learning Management Systems Promote Knowledge Sharing

TOPYX LMS

Companies like Nokia, AOL, and Yahoo are known to encourage work-life balance. These significant statistics show us that eLearning is the learning style of the future and the present. Not surprisingly, these companies receive rave reviews from their employees. He also wrote that the learning management system market was worth about $2.5

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Test Your Knowledge: What Is SEO And Why Is It Important?

All Roads

Here’s one more statistic: organic search (in comparison with the paid ads next to search results) accounts for nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of all website traffic. Page two and three are left in the virtual dust with just 5.59 The first five results on page one garner over a third (67.60 percent) of clicks. Age Discrimination.

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What is the semantic web?

Take an e-Learning Break

Wikipedia arranges information in the form of articles, while Freebase lists facts and statistics. For instance, Flickr + Google Maps, Upcoming + Google Calendar, Yahoo! Freebase information is good not only for people who want to research facts, but also for people who want to use those facts to build other websites and applications.

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8 Things we MUST do in 2013 to seize the potential of mLearning

mLearning Revolution

Here’s another statistic that bodes well for mobile, Apple sold more iPads in Q4 2011 than any individual PC manufacturer sold PCs. One final statistic I would like to include here is the fact that as of September 2012, Android alone accounted for 1.3 million activations a day, that’s roughly 39 million activations a month.