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1. Darling of the social media scene Twitter just revealed some stats for its recent performance, and they're pretty eye-popping: Over the first quarter of 2011 Twitter's tweet-per-day count grew 41% globally, and 38% in the U.S. Meanwhile from December to March there was a 52% increase in monthly sign-ups, and 155 million tweets per day are going on, up from 55 million at the same time last year.

Read it and tweet : Social media takes a lot of time, but it pays off, says a report released today. Ninety percent of marketers surveyed say that social media is important for their business, with the self employed and small business owners with two or more employees "more likely to strongly agree," says the 2011 Social Media Marketing Report, which surveyed some 3,300 marketers. The No

Have you seen a QR Code floating around? Maybe you’ve seen them in magazines, posters or business cards

Everyone in New Orleans has a Katrina story, and those tales are typically tinged with loss, frustration, and grief. Five years after the storm, you still hear them, of course, and you still see evidence of the devastation that killed over 1,800 people and left more than one million homeless.

Reppler's service is the virtual morning after pill to purge any and all inappropriate content that you or your friends posted on Facebook.

Last week, Biz Stone appeared on the Howard Stern Show, where the satellite-radio host grilled the Twitter cofounder on virtually every aspect of the social network. One of the funnier parts of the interview came when Stern asked Stone about how much money he's made from Twitter, to which Stone replied that he makes a perfectly good salary, has a mortgage, and leases a Mini.

A bad merger, like a bad marriage, sometimes needs to end in divorce. When Engadget was acquired by AOL in 2005, it perhaps wasn't the best fit. Last month, editor Joshua Tupolsky announced he was leaving the site, part of an exodus that comprised "as many as eight of the more prominent editorial and technology staff members," in the words of The New York Times

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.

The common, renegade approach of sending imperfect tech products out into the world--and having user experience guide improvements--comes under fire. Silicon Valley is renowned for its culture of innovation. There a common, renegade approach is to send products out into the world while they’re still half-baked, in the belief that it’s better to improve them based on real-world use, rather than trying to perfect them behind closed doors

Prospecting, Sales, Marketing – oh my! It can all feel quite overwhelming and frustrating at times, can’t it? Recently, I spoke with an acquaintance who has been in the job market for over a year. I noticed a pattern in John’s marketing of himself that I’ve seen in many business owners as well.

The recently released Forbes list of America’s billionaires is chock-full of the usual suspects--oil-magnates, captains of the computer industry, and world-famous financiers. But one person seems incongruous among the bunch. Tied with the ever-present and ever self-promoting Donald Trump as the 153rd wealthiest person in the country is Ty Warner

Greg Tseng, CEO of the social networking website Tagged, had just landed in Manila, on Saturday, June 6, 2009, to kick off a long-awaited vacation. As soon as he dragged his jet-lagged body up to his hotel room, though, an onslaught of phone calls, e-mails, and text messages from his co-founder, Johann Schleier-Smith, and other Tagged employees began: Something was seriously wrong with the site. In the 24 hours since Tseng had left his office in San Francisco, thousands of complaints had been filed by users—who claimed that Tagged's new registration process had somehow tricked them into spamming all of the contacts in their e-mail address books

A leading search marketing firm says Google's best shot at becoming competitive in social is acquiring Twitter. Yesterday, Google searches became more social with +1, which allows you to flag URLs you like for others in your social circle. It seems the next logical step in Google's gradual encroachment on the social space

The "creative brain" behind Google Creative Lab, Ji Lee , announced today he will head to Facebook to become the social network's newest Creative Director. The unexpected announcement came this morning at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, N.Y., where Lee was a featured speaker for Creative Mornings, a "monthly breakfast lecture series of creative types" based in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Facebook's latest talent-grab from Google underscores a series of high-profile acquisitions from its biggest tech competitor.