Last December, Twitter launched a new interface with the familiar goal of “enhancing the user experience.” At the same time, it announced its very own brand pages, a feature marketers had been anxiously awaiting for quite a while. Bing and Coca-Cola were among the test group fortunate enough to first get their hands on these enhanced profiles, and from the looks of it, they could be available to the whole business community very soon.

Most business owners are usually on the go. More and more people work remotely and even the most basic business services (i.e. banking) are now being tailored to target a multi-tasking/telecommuting customer base. So what can you do to make doing online business even easier? Try these tips and share yours below!

When developer Trevor Eckhart recently demonstrated how the Carrier IQ software that is present on most smartphones not only cannot be turned off by the user, but also has the ability of tracking every button push as well as the content of all text messages, a flurry of class actions suits accused the company and the various manufacturers of violations under the US Federal Wiretap Act. Stating that consumers’ “phones relay all sorts of information about them, often without their knowledge or consent,” Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) who is also the co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, has released Mobile Device Privacy Act draft legislation that would...

When Bud Fox is confronting the greedy villain Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, he asks him the famous question: “How many yachts can you waterski behind?” This same question may also be applicable to the upcoming Facebook Initial Public Offering (IPO). Given that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is facing a $1.5 billion (with a b!) income tax bill, which represents a mere pittance compared to his mega-billion net worth, the question that has to be asked in this case is “why even bother going public?” It seems that accumulating another warehouse full of $100 bills is only a side benefit to Facebook’s basic goal, which is to change the face of advertising… forever!

Absolutely every business needs a YouTube channel with its own video hosted there. A video about your business, with your company face, is critical if you want to inspire interest and trust.