May 17th, 2013
 San Francisco, CA and Austin-TX-based MicroVentures, the only combined equity crowdfunding platform and broker-dealer in the US, announced says that accredited investors on their platform have invested $16 million in startups. With investments in 34 companies, MicroVentures has now invested more with legal, accredited investors than any other equity based crowdfunding platform. MicroVentures employs a ...
May 17th, 2013
 Pebble, maker of an e-paper smart watch that connects to iPhone and Android smartphones, received $15 million in Series A funding from Charles River Ventures. The funding will be used to grow the software engineering team, expand Pebble’s open development platform and scale to meet customer demand. Pebble is a highly customizable device, enabling users ...
May 17th, 2013
 Nike is the U.S. brand to beat for Socially Devoted fans, dominating Socialbakers top ten U.S. list with four different Nike handles in Q1 2013. Socialbakers, the global leader in social media measurement and analytics, monitors the most responsive brands on social media each quarter. While @JetBlueAirways, representing airlines, and @NokiaCareUS, for telecom, take the #2 ...
May 17th, 2013
 With any luck, we won’t have to buy another car for a while, but when we do, we’ll definitely do online research before heading out to dealer lots. We have lots of company doing that. Online dealership reviews on social media networks are now playing the most important role in the dealership selection process, according ...
May 17th, 2013
 According to newly issued original research, Arnold Worldwidehas uncovered the emergence of what it calls “Sherpa Brands.” Brands that provide consumers with increased guidance while celebrating their successes and accomplishments, ultimately leading consumers to feel more empowered and satisfied. In the same report, ArnoldOn: Sherpa Brands-Guiding Consumers to New Heights, the agency also revealed that 81 percent ...
May 17th, 2013
 Despite being far more tech-savvy than previous generations, Generation Y, the 80-million strong cohort of Americans between the ages of 18 and 35, has not forsaken shopping in stores for online purchasing – as long as retailers keep their offerings “fresh” and interesting, says a new report from the Urban Land Institute (ULI). The report ...
May 17th, 2013
 Regulatory pressure is consistently one of the biggest threats facing companies across industries, and the number one challenge facing financial services and energy and natural resources companies, says a new KPMG survey. A full seventy percent of c-suite executives, across all industries, say that regulatory changes have caused either substantial or moderate changes in their ...
May 17th, 2013
 Mother’s Day online shopping grew 15 percent in the week leading up to Mother’s Day, compared to the same time period last year. Spurred by mobile commerce, mobile percentage of sales reached 17 percent, according to IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Digital Analytics Benchmark, a cloud-based analysis of the online retail market. Here at the TechJournal, we see this ...
May 16th, 2013
 BitPay Inc, the world’s leading payment processor for bitcoin, announces it has raised an additional $2 million in seed round financing led by Founders Fund, which includes three founders of PayPal. “ECommerce companies see the tremendous value that frictionless international payments bring to their businesses as they expand into emerging markets. BitPay’s ambitions have been ...
May 16th, 2013
 Over the next three years, global organizations will make understanding and interacting with the customer their top priority. So says a new study from The Economist Intelligence Unit Voice of the customer: Whose job is it, anyway? Yet only 56 percent of respondents to the survey, sponsored by SAS, believe their companies clearly understand the customer ...
May 16th, 2013
 Private sector workers are likely to see little or no improvement in the overall pace of annual wage increases in the coming months, according to the preliminary second quarter Wage Trend Indicator™ (WTI) released today byBloomberg BNA, a leading publisher of specialized news and information. The index declined to 98.68 (second quarter 1976 = 100) in the ...
May 16th, 2013
 Marketers need to adopt more sophisticate social advertising and marketing tactics if they want to improve their ability to hit objectives. So says, Kenshoo Social, a global social marketing platform, which has published a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, “The Key to Successful Social Advertising,” that evaluates how marketers are using social advertising. The goal: ...
May 16th, 2013
 A word of advice for workers considering wearing pajamas, a chicken suit or parachute pants to the office: Don’t. In a survey from OfficeTeam, eight in 10 (80 percent) executives interviewed said clothing choices affect an employee’s chances of earning a promotion, and respondents gave some pretty hilarious examples of outfits that missed the mark. The good news ...
May 16th, 2013
 Do you think your business lacks a sense of purpose? A new online survey by Deloitte finds that the majority of employees (68 percent) and executives (66 percent) believe that businesses are not doing enough to instill in their culture a sense of purpose aimed at making a positive impact on all stakeholders. The annual ...
May 16th, 2013
 A first-of-its-kind survey of the global workplace reveals that the cost of routine IT issues experienced by workers and businesses has reached crisis proportions, negatively impacting employee and company productivity – and by extension shareholder value and national economic performance – to an extent not previously understood. Enterprise technology leader BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) asked top analyst ...
May 15th, 2013
 A shortage of in-house expertise is among the the biggest reasons companies are outsourcing mobility projects, according to a staffing solutions firm TEKsystems. The study conducted on behalf of the TEKsystems Mobility Services practice represents the perspectives of 232 IT and business leaders and found that most have yet to develop the mature strategies necessary to implement ...
May 15th, 2013
 The creator of the legendary Dilbert comic strip, Scott Adams, has teamed up with Corona Labs on acompetition for mobile game developers and enthusiasts. Adams is calling on professional and aspiring developers to create a winning game with Corona SDK, using Dilbert artwork. The contest runs from May 14 through July 12, 2013, with winners to be announced ...
May 15th, 2013
 The conventional, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., five-day work week is a thing of the past for the overwhelming majority of workers at small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a new survey on work-related email habits. Due to the widespread availability and use of smartphones and tablets, email is more accessible than ever and, as ...
May 15th, 2013
 Gozaik, a provider of talent acquisition tools for Twitter, has retrieved a first step in analyzing job industry data occurring on Twitter. Joe Budzienski & Venkat Janapareddy , Co-Founders of Gozaik, started capturing this information when the company went live onMarch 28, 2013. Some of the information includes trending cities for jobs on Twitter as well as the hottest jobs ...
May 15th, 2013
 Videology—a digital advertising platform and solutions provider— recently released a report showcasing research on the link between digital video advertising and offline sales results for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brand advertisers. CPG is an extremely important category for digital video, comprising 22% of total video ad impressions—more than any other sector—according to a Videology Q1 ...
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