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Examiner.com packages Closely's new Twitter and Facebook live promotion product into their premium local advertiser package to expand leadership position in local social marketing

DENVER, March 23 -- At the Kelsey Group Marketplaces 2010 conference in San Diego, CA, Examiner.com and Closely, Inc. today announced a partnership whereby Examiner.com will package Closely's new Business Edition product into Examiner.com's premium social media marketing solutions.

Social Networking Penetration via Browser Reaches 30 Percent among Smartphone Owners

Reston, VA, March 3, 2010 - comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on social networking access via mobile browser. The study found that 30.8 percent of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile browser in January 2010, up 8.3 points from 22.5 percent one year ago.

Access to Facebook via mobile browser grew 112 percent in the past year, while Twitter experienced a 347-percent jump.

Makes it Easy to Register Users and Maximize On-site ROI from Facebook Connect, Twitter, LinkedIn for Customers like A&E, Intuit, and Answers.com; Features Integrated Social Analytics

PALO ALTO, CA, Feb 18, 2010 – Gigya announced today the general availability of Gigya 4, a new release of its social optimization platform, with new registration, sharing and reporting enhancements that empower customers to maximize referral traffic to their web sites from the leading social networks.

Creates Social Media Lab in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (March 2, 2010) - Global on-demand email marketing and one-to-one marketing provider ExactTarget announced today it has acquired San Francisco-based CoTweet, creating the industry's first complete solution for managing communications across all interactive marketing channels including social media, email and mobile.

Yesmail Enterprise Clients Can Now Manage E-mail Marketing and Social Marketing Campaigns within a Single View

OMAHA, Neb., Feb 18, 2010 -- Infogroup Interactive (an Infogroup division) (NASDAQ: IUSA), a provider of permission-based online marketing solutions, announced the release of Twitter campaign management inside of the Yesmail Enterprise technology platform.

Forces Cultural and Process Shifts from the Inside Out, IDC Research Finds

FRAMINGHAM, MA. - January 26, 2010 - Recent IDC research on the intersection of Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and collaboration shows that we are entering a time of significant cultural and process change for businesses, driven by the emergence of the social Web.

According to a new IDC survey, 57% of U.S. workers use social media for business purposes at least once per week.

Over 250 participants will actively tweet from the meeting http://twitter.com/davos

Davos, Switzerland, 25 January 2010 – The World Economic Forum is once again making full use of the major social media platforms at the upcoming Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland giving unprecedented access to the wider public.

The general public can actively participate in a number of sessions through video submissions, blog comments, tweets and quick polls.

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Facebook most-visited mobile social network; Twitter takes title of fastest-growing social network

January 26, 2010 -- Oslo, Norway -- Facebook is now the most-visited social network on the mobile Web, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report.

Unique users of Facebook grew more than 600% during 2009, helping the site surpass VKontakte, formerly the most popular social network among Opera Mini users. Twitter saw its usage increase more than any other social network, surging more than 2800% in just one year.

This Year's Predictions Span 56 Markets, Topics and Industry Areas

STAMFORD, Conn., January 13, 2010 -- Gartner, Inc. has highlighted the key predictions that herald long-term changes in approach for IT organizations and the people they serve for 2010 and beyond. Gartner's top predictions for 2010 showcase the trends and events that will change the nature of business today and beyond.

Deeper, broader use of insight predicted; BI SaaS seen as continuing moderate to rapid growth

NEW YORK, Jan. 11 -- A new survey of business intelligence (BI) practitioners worldwide reveals that a majority expects the use of BI at their organizations to continue growing at a steady pace in the new year. Survey respondents said, however, that they remain unsure about the value of analyzing data obtained from social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook.