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Statistics in the fight against wasted digital spend [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Sean O'Neil | August 8, 2013

A new survey of 200 senior marketing managers finds confusion of how to monitor brands across channels. Read More

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Sabre outage hits airline reservation systems globally

By Sean O'Neil | August 5, 2013

A two-hour systems crash affected as many as 400 airlines and 100 airports. Some boarding passes had to be handwritten. Read More

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The state of digital startups [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | July 31, 2013

Everyone (or at least it feels like it) wants to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey of Facebook and Twitter fame respectively. Read More

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Are advertisers finally giving Facebook the thumbs-up?

By PhocusWire | July 31, 2013

Facebook is looking like it's finally winning friends on Madison Avenue and other advertising hotspots around the world. Read More

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The problem with location and proximity-based social networks

By PhocusWire | July 29, 2013

Time to get a bit nostalgic about those OTHER social networks that were on the tips of the tongues of the digerati back in, ooh, the late-2000s. Read More

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GetGoing adds hotel booking, via Expedia, plus UX tweaks

By Sean O'Neil | July 24, 2013

CEO Alek Vernitsky talks about what's new at his startup, which seems -- anecdotally, at least -- to be taking off at a faster trajectory than its peers launched in the past year. Read More

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Oopsie - mistakes that hit your ability to engage on Facebook

By PhocusWire | July 18, 2013

The news feed is where people spend most of their time on Facebook — in fact, 40% of their time. Read More

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Tint gets in on the travel like a local theme via Facebook

By Linda Fox | July 18, 2013

Tint, according to its founders, emerged out of an 'epiphany' for a website based on Facebook that would provide travel experiences with a more local feel Read More

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When conversation still trumps the web, can websites REALLY inspire people to travel?

By Viewpoints | July 15, 2013

You never hear anyone say "No, I don't want to travel" if asked. Everyone wants to travel, yet most have excuses why they don't. Read More

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Check Facebook regularly? No wonder we feel bad about ourselves

By PhocusWire | July 14, 2013

Researchers from Humboldt University and Darmstadt Technical University have recently published a study on Facebook’s role in our own unhappiness. Read More

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Social discovery applications might just be too creepy for the masses

By PhocusWire | July 12, 2013

The premise of social discovery seems simple: Uncover the people and events around you, in real time, based on user interests and/or locations. Read More

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Google gets into recommendations on the go with its updated Maps app for Android

By Sean O'Neil | July 11, 2013

Google has updated its Maps app for Android devices. The app's new Explore feature suggests places to eat, shop, and sleep for travelers on the go. Offline maps have also been restored. Read More

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Social media and Asiana flight 214: whole story versus sum of its parts

By Gene Quinn | July 8, 2013

You couldn’t ask for a better case study of media fragmentation than the crash of Asiana Airlines flight 214 in San Francisco – ground zero for the invention of social media and leading example of its... Read More

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Facebook and hotels: Here comes Graph Search Optimization

By Sean O'Neil | July 8, 2013

SEO meets social sharing with Facebook's Graph Search. Hotels are the first sector in travel to be affected by the tool, which rolls out to all US users of Facebook today. Read More