Hoster GoDaddy buys domain auction Afternic

One of the world's largest commercial hosting providers GoDaddy acquired Afternic from NameMedia. Now GoDaddy will develop a line of offerings for small businesses. This absorption is to GoDaddy 's fourth in the past 14 months.

The company also reported that acquires from NameMedia service domain parking service and SmartName Domain Name Generator NameFind. FINANCING side agreements are not publicly disclosed.

Afternic auction physically based in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, it provides opportunities for domain owners to sell them . Listing Afternic now has more than 5,000,000 domains , domain search system of monthly processes more than 75 million requests.

LG Display shows quarterly results below expectations

Korean's company LG Display, the world's second largest manufacturer of LCD panels, today announced the receipt of net profit in the second quarter, which was worse than expected amid slowing spending users on mobile devices, PC monitors and TVs.

Net income, net of a number of articles in operating expenses amounted to 105.7 billion Korean won, or $ 94 million for the period April to June this year. A year earlier, the company had a loss of 111.2 billion won. Analysts expect from LG Display profit of 205.9 billion won.

James Jeng, chief financial officer, said that while LG Display nedotyagivaet to the desired speed on the background of falling sales in the most profitable areas - the industry's large-format televisions, high-end mobile devices, and a number of other areas. He also noted that the company does not expect significant breakthroughs in sales in the current year as the global economy does not yet have to do this.

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The number of Internet users in China reached 591 million people

As of the end of June this year, the number of Internet users in China reached 591 million, that 26,560,000 people more than at the end of last year. Including the number of Internet users who use the network to access the mobile phones amounted to 464 million, or 78.5% of the total number of Internet users.

In the latest "Statistical bulletin on the state of development of the Internet in China", is already in the 32 th time published by the China Network Information Center, said that as of the end of June, the number of IPv4 addresses in China reached 331 million, while the number of individuals with IPv6 addresses increased by 16.5% compared to the same period last year, according to the index, China came in second place in the world. The country enrollment ratio reached 44.1% of the Internet, which is 2 percentage points higher than the end of 2012.

Baidu to buy company 91 Wireless for $1.9 billion

Chinese Internet search engine Baidu today announced the purchase of a local distributor of mobile applications 91 Wireless for $ 1.9 billion. The acquisition of Baidu - it is the largest expansion of its presence in the fast growing mobile market of Asia.

Beijing Baidu announced today that pays $ 1.9 billion for 57% of 91 Wireless Websoft. Last belongs to a large holding company NetDragon Websoft, the Chinese developer of computer games. Bought by the company today operates two distribution platforms in China - 91 Assistant and HiMarket. In total, these two directories users have downloaded more than 10 billion mobile application that makes this company the largest independent vendor of mobile software.

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IT Business News Today July 3, 2013

YouTube has signed a licensing agreement with Vevo

Portal YouTube has extended an agreement with the service Vevo, delivering record video clips on the popular video hosting.

As part of the agreement signed Google and Vevo, the first investment will support the musical project. By estimates of the magazine Billboard, the size of the support will be 40-50 million dollars.

Recall that Vevo is a joint venture between the companies Universal Music, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media Group. The official size of the investment was not disclosed.

"We have made some investment in Vevo", - stated in YouTube. "We are delighted with the prospects that can provide Vevo and YouTube co-user audience."

United States blocked more than 1,600 illegal online pharmacies

The Office of the Food and Drug Administration said last week that they in conjunction with the FBI and the police conducted a raid on the internet following which was closed more than 1,600 online pharmacies, trading counterfeit medicines, non-certified supplements and anabolic steroids.

It is reported that all pharmacies have been linked to a number of very large networks that operated in nearly a hundred countries.

In a statement, the U.S. Drug and Food Minister said that prior to the surgery for a long time they were the operators of online pharmacies and recorded more than 8,000 cases of sale of drugs without a prescription. 

During the operation it was found that many online pharmacies operating under the infamous network of Canadian Pharmacy, against which previously has been repeatedly conducted similar operations.

BlackBerry shares fall 28% on weak sales

Canadian manufacturer of BlackBerry smartphones on Friday after the close of the U.S. trading session, posted quarterly results were significantly worse than market expectations, triggering a massive sell securities of the company and the BlackBerry shares drop of 27.76%.

Along with the disappointing results of the quarter, the company said on the complete cessation of production of its Internet Tablet Playbook, which has not found a buyer in the market.

According to the company, the new devices based on BlackBerry OS 10 is not sold as good as might be desired to investors and shareholders. In the reporting quarter, has sold 6.8 million BlackBerry smartphones, versus 7.8 million a year earlier. This number includes vehicles running on the basis of the old versions of operating systems. As for the new smart phones based on BB10, their number does not exceed 2.7 million units.

Analysts say the BlackBerry 10 system is critical to the company, the new devices based on this platform began to be sold at the beginning of this year. Two smartphone BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 received good reviews from critics, but the widespread popularity, they still have not received it. In addition, in some markets the company began selling new items with a delay, which also benefited from its revenues. The latest quarterly figures show that even after normalization of supply devices do not enjoy the support of a substantial market.

Accenture shows quarterly results below expectations

The company Accenture, the second largest IT consultant in the world, today showed weak quarterly report, which led to a 7% drop in its shares traded.

Alleged by figures were worse than analysts' forecast amid falling sales and revenues. In addition, Accenture forecast for the current quarter also looks promising.

In the current quarter, the Irish company expects revenue of $ 6.7-7.0 billion, lower than the 7.36 billion dollars expected by analysts. Now Accenture said that faced with a change in the behavior of large customers, who are now planning IT contracts for short-term periods, and refrain from large-scale long-term investment in technology. For the most Accenture and other players in the market of IT consulting it expects the lack of hope for a speedy profit growth.

Adobe to Buy Neolane for $600 Million

Manufacturer graphics software Adobe Systems buys for $ 600 million company Neolane, specializing in the digital marketing.

In a Adobe statement, said that Neolane tools for managing and monitoring marketing campaigns to help Adobe clients pursue more Targeted advertising campaigns using a variety of channels such as internet, email, social networks, etc.

Neolane company is based in Paris, and after the closing of the transaction will be part of a unit Adobe Marketing Cloud, complementing previously purchased Adobe cloud assets such as Omniture.

Vodafone to buy Kabel Deutschland for $ 10 billion

At the European telecom market is maturing, another major deal. As it became known today, Vodafone UK has reached an agreement with the board of directors of the German Kabel Deutschland on buying the latest in 7.7 billion euros, or $ 10 billion. Kabel Deutschland - Europe's largest manufacturer of cables including fiber optic, television and others.

Vodafone has offered for Kabel Deutschland to 87 euros per share in cash, whereas the company's board said it would recommend that shareholders accept the deal. At the same time, Vodafone is facing a potential bidding war, as earlier in the Kabel Deutschland also claimed fund Liberty Global. Earlier last offered at 85 euros per share.

Sharp received from Qualcomm $ 60 million investment

Japan's Sharp today announced the receipt of an investment of $ 60 million from the U.S. Qualcomm. The statement said that the two companies are working to bring the mass production of a new generation of fuel-efficient and high-performance displays for mobile devices.

Qualcomm through its subsidiary Pixtronix start interacting with Sharp for the release of the displays based on the technology of MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), in which the screen pixels are based on tiny mechanical zatvorkah, which open and close certain colors on the display. Potentially, this technology allows you to create faster displays, capable of quickly change the picture without moire and loss in quality. At the same time, the new technology promises to be a cost-effective, even though today the mass production of MEMS is not yet established.

"We are moving toward commercialization," - says Sharp spokeswoman Miyuki Nakayama. According to her, the two companies are still in the research phase and has not yet announced a release date versions of commercial displays.

Logitech Acquires TT Design Labs

The Swiss manufacturer of computer mice and joysticks Logitech acquired the company TT Design Labs.

The latter was established through public funding Kickstarter project about two years ago, the founders of TT Design are Derek Tarnou and Zahra Tashakoinia.

Initially bought a company specialized in the production of iPhone-accessories. Its first product was TidyTilt - protective case, stand, magnetic holder and elegant cover in one. Note that when the company raised money at the beginning of the production TidyTilt, she managed to collect 2,000% more funds than initially needed.

Today, no Logitech, nor TT Design does not officially informed about the purchase and did not provide information about the conditions of absorption. However, sources in the Logitech say the company in the near future will begin to sell all of TT Design products under its own brand.

Oracle and Dell signed a massive partnership agreement

Dell announced on the eve of the expansion of partnerships with its corporate partner of Oracle. The two companies said Tuesday evening on a multi-year agreement to integrate each other's products.

It should be noted that the strategy of Dell's partnership with both hardware manufacturers and software developers have previously brought us the dividends related to the positioning of Dell as a supplier of complete solutions for the business cycle.

Thus, the earlier Dell signed a major partnership agreement with EMC, the world's largest manufacturer of storage systems.

Samsung buys 10% Pantech stake

Samsung Buys 10% of Pantech for $48 Million

Samsung Electronics today buys about 10% of the shares of a competing manufacturer of mobile phones and smartphones Pantech.

South Korea's Pantech is the third largest after Samsung and LG. According to analysts, the transaction value is about 53 billion Korean won, or $ 48 million. In a joint statement, the parties said the deal will help strengthen bilateral cooperation in the field of smart phones and other lines of business.

With today's purchase securities Pantech, Samsung has become the third largest shareholder in the company after the American Qualcomm and Korean State Development Bank of Korea. The latter two own stakes in 11.96% and 11.81% stake in Pantech. As explained in the Samsung, their company has links with Pantech in semiconductor manufacturing and display industry.

Investor Warren Buffett launched a blog on Twitter

The legendary American investor Warren Buffett opened his microblog at Twitter.

Until now, Buffett has been known in the corporate environment as one of the most distant from the information technology investors and economists. Meanwhile, he discovered the blog Sage of Omaha could become one of the most widely read.

Now users to actively "Follows" Buffett. Only in the last three hours about 10 000 people have signed up for his blog. Now the total number of followers exceeds blog Buffett's 233,000 members, although only two blog posts, one of which - is "Warren is in the house".

The world's largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was sued by CoinLab

In February of this year, the world's largest virtual currency exchanger Mt.Gox, based in Japan, entered into an agreement with the American company CoinLab, under which CoinLab Bitsoin becomes the operator of all transactions conducted on Mt.Gox users from the United States and Canada.

Initially stated that CoinLab has partnered with a group of American banks, which could contribute to the output of the virtual currency Bitcoin offline.

But now the partnership seems to have collapsed. CoinLab sued Mt.Gox, accusing the latter of not fulfilling the contractual terms that were reached in November last year. Signed a legal agreement called for the transfer of Bitcoin-North American operations under the management of CoinLab in March. However CoinLab say that this has not happened.

Commercial using of Wi-Fi

Commercial access to services based on Wi-Fi available in places such as Internet cafes, airports and coffee shops around the world (usually these places are called Wi-Fi-cafe), but their coverage can be considered a point in comparison with cellular networks:

- Ozone and OzoneParis France. In September 2003, the beginning of Ozone network deployment OzoneParis through The City of Lights. The ultimate goal - the creation of a centralized network Wi-Fi, fully covering Paris. The basic principle of Ozone Pervasive Network is that it is a network of national scale.

- WiSE Technologies provides commercial access in airports, universities, and independent cafes in the United States;

- T-Mobile provides the network of hotspots for Starbucks in the U.S. and the UK, as well as more than 7,500 hotspots in Germany;

The largest DDoS-attack on the stock exchange Bitcoin - Mt.Gox

The representative of the victims feel that their actions are trying to bring down the rate of fraudsters Bitcoin.

April morning of the fourth exchange Bitcoin - Mt.Gox faced massive DDoS-attack. Note, that this exchange is about 70% -80% of all exchange transactions with e-currency. The attack caused the violation is of the transaction.

Representatives of Mt. Gox said they guess the motive for the attack. Since the last few days Bitcoin value rose to a record $ 142, then the instability in the market, in this case, the DDoS-attack that can significantly reduce the cost, as well as "cause panic among users."

Analysts estimated sales of Windows 8

According to research by Net Applications, at the end of the first quarter 2013 sales of Windows 8 have increased from 2.79% to 3.31%.

Moreover, despite the fact that Windows 7 previously suffered losses, it grows again with a share changed from 44.55% to 44.73%. Market share of Windows Vista dropped to 5%, according to the portal thenextweb.com.

Analysts have seen a rapid growth in sales of Windows 8, which they had hoped. The share of Windows 7 in March increased, while last month it grew by only 0.07%, and in January - has fallen by 0.63%, the first failure in the market after the operating system on the market. The experts also noted a drop in sales of Windows Vista 5.17% to 4.99%.

Visa and iBox launched a joint mobile payment terminal

Visa and company ibox, provides mobile acquiring, today launched a new solution for the payment by cards - mobile terminal ibox.

Mobile payment terminal ibox - ibox-reader - a reader that connects to your phone or tablet running iOS or Android.

Ibox for individual entrepreneurs and companies with a large network of agents - insurance companies, courier services, taxi services, meal delivery and network marketing.

Votlichie from traditional bank acquiring iboxne requires the purchase of expensive equipment and is available to all businesses regardless of their sales volume.

From a marketing point of view, this decision is competing with a number of previously featured mobile payment terminals, such as NFC-service company PayPal, a Swedish product iZettle Square or from the creators of Twitter.

Ericsson wants to buy Microsoft's IPTV software

According to the agency business to Bloomberg, the Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson is in talks with Microsoft regarding the purchase of its units for the production of solutions for Internet TV (IPTV).

Microsoft IPTV solutions are focused on large telecom operators offering customers mobile TV, TV on demand and classic webcasts.

Sources close to the companies say that while all aspects of the transaction likely Microsoft and Ericsson have not agreed, but on the achievement of a final agreement could be announced in the next couple of weeks. Officially, neither Microsoft nor Ericsson this information is not confirmed. Bloomberg says nothing about the possible price of the transaction.

PayPal migrate to Openstack

Internet companies eBay and PayPal have decided to refuse from systems virtualization and cloud VMware and transfer a certain amount of open system servers to OpenStack.

Just eBay and PayPal now has about 80,000 servers. This was in an interview with Business Insider said board member OpenStack Foundation Boris Rennes.

Rennes also works for Mirantis, co-founder of which he is, and says that they are working on practical implementation of OpenStack and now many Western companies are now actively discussing the transition to cloud solutions for open source. Earlier Mirantis also worked on OpenStack with Dell, Intel and several other IT companies worldwide.

Rennes says that now his company is working with PayPal and advises on the implementation of OpenStack, and gave their own PayPal solution Fuel production.

According to him, the first phase of transition, PayPal would lead to about 10 000 VMware servers. By summer, these machines must earn based OpenStack. Further, the company will evaluate the results of transition and may continue further introduction.

Hon Hai improved quarterly financial results

The company Hon Hai Precision Industry, the world's largest contract manufacturer of computers and smartphones, today published a report on a record quarterly profit amid increased volumes of previously received orders to release Apple iPhone and iPad.

In the fourth quarter, net sales increased by 5.6% to $ 37 billion New Taiwan dollars, or 1.2 billion U.S. dollars. Analysts on average expected the company this figure at 35.9 billion Taiwan dollars.

Earlier Hon Hai reported that faced with a number of production problems related to release of the iPhone 5, but by the end of the year was solved, so Hon Hai was able to increase revenue.

On the other hand, since the beginning of the year, analysts say the falling demand for the iPhone and iPad, which could adversely affect future earnings Hon Hai. In addition to the commercial production and assembly of electronic components Hon Hai is increasingly competing with Korean Samsung Electronics, which may also affect the income of the first.

Consolidated revenues in the reporting period increased by 6% to NT $ 1.14 trillion, against 1.13 trillion a year earlier. For the entire 2012 Hon Hai a profit of 81.6 billion Taiwan dollars, revenue was NT $ 3.9 trillion, up from last year's total by 13%.

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn: From Wikipedia

Yahoo acquired the mobile news start-up Summly

According to Market Watch, the Internet company Yahoo acquired the mobile start-Summly, allows users of smartphones and tablets to find, read and share online news, as well as various information.

Financial terms were not officially disclosed, but according to some reports the purchase price somewhat higher than $ 1 million.

The peculiarity of this purchase is that the company Summly is 17-year-old British teenager Nick Di'Aloisio, who started making the application as early as age 15.

According to the blog post Summly, after a deal by the application and a small team of developers that support it will work for Yahoo.

Recall that last month Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said that Yahoo will move toward Internet-based services with deep customization for end users and intends to expand the number of applications of this focus, as well as attract new staff of programmers who specialize in customization services.

NEC plans to sell mobile unit NEC Mobiling

According to today's publication of the Tokyo business publication Nikkei, NEC Corporation is considering selling its mobile unit NEC Mobiling 70-80 billion yen, or about 740-840 million dollars.

Edition, referring to anonymous sources in the NEC, said the company conducts sales in the reduction of costs and the sale of non-core assets.

According to preliminary data, the company Marubeni Corp and TD Mobile has offered to invest in the NEC Mobiling, but both the buyer until the offer to buy only 51% of the shares, not the entire business completely.

Sources at the NEC said that while NEC decides the fate of the division and the final choice can be made next week.

NEC officially this information does not comment and confirm.

In Japan, NECMobiling owns a chain of retail stores of cellular communication, most of which cater to the cellular company NTT Docomo.

Oracle today announced the acquisition of Tekeles

Oracle today announced the acquisition of Tekeles, manufacturing software and online services to support mobile broadband services.

The portfolio acquired company has solutions for the control of broadband data in wired or wireless networks.

In Oracle said that the new acquisition will allow the company to obtain the solution to get more control over the data in the network and to better manage the information flow between servers, storage systems and users.

It should be noted that the recent takeover was for Oracle is already the second in the last two weeks. March 15 was known to buy the company Nimbula.

Also, it is worth recalling that the Oracle purchase of telecom vendor Tekelec was the second year since the beginning of the acquisition-related telecommunications. In early February, for $ 1.7 billion had bought a company Acme Packet.

Cisco buys SolveDirect

Cisco Systems today announced the acquisition of Austrian SolveDirect, through which she hopes to Cisco to offer new means of connecting to cloud services, and to protect data in the public domain.

Cisco did not publicly disclose the purchase price.

In a statement on the occasion of buying Cisco said that the acquisition will enable Cisco to offer a more unified approach to the management of cloud services that can be created on the basis of products and technologies from different companies.

"Today's SaaS-service providers now spend too much time and effort to support cloud infrastructures. This increases the cost and complexity of the support services ... From SolveDirect products can solve many of the routine tasks associated with cloud products and technologies," - said in a Cisco .

SolverDirect company was founded 13 years ago as a developer of solutions for process management and project collaboration. According to, the conditions, bought the company will join the department Cisco Services Platforms Group.

Sales of video game consoles continue to fall

Analysts say that videootrasl continues to reduce turnover and sales as game consoles and software for them continue to fall. At the end of February in the U.S. has sold video game consoles and games for them at 810 million dollars, which is 25% less than the same period a year earlier. Such data are now leading research firm NPD Group.

Hardware sales for the year fell by 36% in February, the U.S. market accounted for 244.2 million dollars, hardware sales with the implementation of the accessories for them were 352 million dollars - 27% lower than a year earlier.

Game console Microsoft Xbox 360 again topped sales in the U.S. market, the Xbox leader in sales for more than two consecutive years. In February, Microsoft sold 302,000 new consoles, which gives it a 41% market share. The great news is, for the new gaming console Nintendo Wii U, which still continues to be a disappointment to his creator. In January, Nintendo has sold just 57,000 Wii U in the States. However, this number is almost 40% more than in January, making the Nintendo nominal leader in terms of growth. Estimated to NPD, sales from the beginning of the end of last year, Nintendo had sold in the U.S. from 64 to 80 thousand consoles Wii U.

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Visa starts promotion of EMV chip technology

Payment system Visa announced the dates of the program to promote the use of chip technology standard EMV. The program provides for the modernization of the acquiring bank ATMs in the Asia-Pacific region and the U.S. to provide the service smart card payment standard EMV (Europay MasterCard Visa).

The key provision of the program is the implementation of the principle of the transfer of responsibility for unauthorized transactions on that party, whether acquiring bank or the issuing bank, which did not provide chipset technologies. Thus, in the case of the chip (EMV) card in the ATM was not equipped with the appropriate technology, the responsibility for losses due to unauthorized transactions, is acquiring bank. To date, this responsibility of bank-card issuers.

Visa Company has established the following dates for the implementation of the principle of the transfer of responsibility for transactions effected at ATMs using Visa cards and / or Plus:

- On October 1, 2015 shall come into force on the transfer of responsibility for transactions in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding China, India, Japan and Thailand;
- On April 1, 2015 processing companies involved in the processing of ATM transactions on Visa cards in the United States must support EMV-chip technology;
- On October 1, 2017 shall come into force on the transfer of responsibility for transactions in China, India, Japan, Thailand and the United States.

PayPal has launched in Europe payments platform Here

PayPal payment operator in Europe presented a new solution for making payments among small businesses. The so called Chip & Pin is a type of card reader.

The company said that the new payment system is designed for the European and UK small businesses, which previously relied on for payments or cash, or a check, avoiding the banking and credit card because of the need to work with the banking systems and the high cost of acquiring the latter.

In PayPal said that the new device will cost PayPal Here small business about a hundred euros. It is designed for small shops, taxis, mobile commerce newspapers, drinks and snacks, etc etc.

Recall that for the first time to develop a PayPal Here operator reported almost a year ago. Until now, it was limited to work in the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong and Australia. Now earned in Europe.

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The London Stock Exchange creates a Nasdaq-like platform

The London Stock Exchange is planning to create its own platform for fast growing and technology companies that will compete with the U.S. Nasdaq, but will also be focused on European technology companies.

As described in the London Stock Exchange, New Market High-Growth Segment (HGS) is a spin off from the main market, which will have its own rules of trade, adjusted for companies that are just entering the market and the shares that may be significant variations. In addition, HGS will allow companies entering the IPO, as well as their creators to place on the market only 10% of the company, retaining 90% of the market for themselves.

The idea of this placement is to allow investors to more actively work with fast growing companies and companies of high-tech sector of the economy. Earlier in Europe in general and Britain in particular complained that European IT is increasingly lagging behind the U.S. and in order to close this gap requires some external support measures.

Cooperation with Microsoft is not justified

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaking at the Goldman Sachs technology conference on the eve recognized that cooperation with Microsoft in Internet search, when Yahoo began using the search engine Bing, is not justified either commercially or from a strategic point of view.

According to her, the integration of Microsoft technology was quite expensive for Yahoo and until the money had not been worked out, besides switching to Bing has not had a positive impact on the market share of Yahoo.

Meyer says that the company is earning now have to rely on their own online services, which are not related to Bing. The current CEO Yahoo says that for her the situation is not a surprise, Meyer admitted that while working in Google she watched the agreement Microsoft and Yahoo, and even then for myself, she knew that Yahoo would be at best a zero result, and in the worst - bear market losses.

Rackspace Hosting reduces the rate of financial growth

Hosting company Rackspace Hosting today reported 25% rise in quarterly earnings, which is below the expectations of investors.

Analysts say that the company announced today results suggest slower growth of one of the world's largest hosting providers.

At the end of trading on Tuesday Rackspace paper dropped in price by more than 10% to 67.80 dollars. In just the last six months, the company increased the value of its shares by 38%.

According to the report of the company, in the fourth quarter, sales Rackspace increased 5% from the level of the third quarter. Investors say that for the fifth consecutive quarter, Rackspace shows slowdown in sales growth of hosting.

Investors say some slowdown can be attributed to an increase in data center power equipment and significant consolidation, which allows a single physical server, to lease, to place more data, websites, and other information. At the same time, growth has and general economic trends. In most Rackspace said that during the quarter the company enough to actively promote its cloud hosting, which allowed a lower cost for customers to place data on the Internet.

Online shopping will receive up to 50% of customers from social networks

According to the forecast analyst firm Gartner, by 2015, half of new customers online stores will come to shop from social networks. In turn, online shopping will identify a significant proportion of users of social networks.

Currently, only about 5% of the customers of online stores from social networks are identified last, since the store is set up in a number of software solutions to identify the users of social networks. In Gartner predicts that in the next few years this number will increase significantly, and social networks will be enough to actively use their own audience for marketing purposes.

Gartner advises online shopping now focus on creating systems of cross-authorization of users to social networks to maximize it easier for users to create and place an order to purchase a product. For users with a single authentication system is also quite convenient, as they do not have to register for different resources and use only one username / password for authentication.

LinkedIn in 2013 will focus on the content in a social network

Among LinkedIn said that a significant part of 2012 they were busy modifying their network to workers and employers from around the world are able to comfortably find each other and engage in the development of your own career or business strategy. However, in 2013, LinkedIn is going to change strategy and as its main resource areas chosen the direction of content.

As described in LinkedIn, in 2013, the company is the task of turning LinkedIn is not only a platform for search professionals and an information hub where these professionals will be able to find the data they need for work. In addition, LinkedIn plans to open in 2013, producing its own content and launch a number of marketing programs related to marketing.

General Director of LinkedIn Jeff Weiner said that in the future LinkedIn can share their own income from work about equally between revenue from content and services directly from the HR activities. It is expected that the first content-area for social networks will become a resource LinkedIn Today, as well as development programs LinkedIn Influencers, in which the identification of the most popular and influential participants LinkedIn.

Quarterly data LinkedIn exceeded expectations

Professional social network LinkedIn yesterday showed the quarterly results was higher than market expectations amid growing customer base and increase sales.

In the fourth quarter of 2012, revenues increased by 81% to 303.6 million dollars, exceeding market expectations at 279.7 million dollars. Operating profit was 35 cents a share, well above the forecast of 19 cents a share.

In the fourth quarter of LinkedIn user base grew by 8% to 202 million. The company said that LinkedIn continues to position itself as a resource for HR professionals as well as those looking for work. The company's revenue from paid services network that are directly related to the search and selection of new staff, was 161 million, up 90% from a year earlier. Now the company's revenue from advertising and from paid services is divided equally.

In the wake of publication of positive quarterly data, the paper company in New York rose in price by 12% to 124.09 dollars. Since its IPO in May of 2011 paper LinkedIn surged nearly tripled. For comparison, the paper has been placed Facebook fell 25%, Groupon and Zynga - more than 70%.