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Online Marketing Company, fishbat, Releases Statement in Response to Mark Cuban Moving his Mavericks and 70 More Companies Away from Facebook

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Bohemia, NY (PRWEB) November 30, 2012

On November 30, 2012, the online marketing company, fishbat, responds to the news that Mark Cuban was moving his Mavericks and 70 more companies away from Facebook. fishbat emphasizes the importance of creating a strategic online marketing plan utilizing a multitude of social media platforms to maximize effect and reach fans.

According to Dan Lyons, Editor-in-Chief of ReadWrite, “Cuban and other corporate Facebook members are howling because new rules on the social network make it harder for brands to reach people without spending big money on sponsored posts.” The article reports that this and Cuban’s belief that “it’s a reflection of [Facebook’s] overall design and strategy weakness,” has Cuban focusing the Mavericks and his other companies on other social media outlets, like Twitter, Tumblr, and the new MySpace.

Lyon also reports that “Facebook insists it isn’t choking off reach as a way to push brands to spend more on sponsored posts.” According to Facebook, they constantly work to improve its algorithm, called EdgeRank, to make it more effective and the most recent update’s “goal was simply to cut down on spam in people’s news feed.”

Nick Renna, fishbat’s Social Media Strategy Manager, weighs in by saying “The number of social media platforms are increasing and the value a brand gets from one outlet will be different from the value garnered from another. It is important to be strategic. Incorporate a mix of social media campaigns in your online marketing plan to achieve the desired effect of reaching your fans and maximize your online marketing success.”

“Brands need to be strategic,” Renna continues. “Abandoning social media is not the answer. It is essential to develop an online marketing strategy that reaches your fans through a mix of social media. Strategically creating unique and valuable content will also help you to maximize your brand’s success online. A good post that provides value to your fans will not go unnoticed.”

fishbat, Inc. is a full service social media agency. Through social media management, search engine optimization (SEO), web design, and public relations, fishbat strives as a marketing firm to raise awareness about your brand and build up your corporate image.







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Powerhouse Internet Marketing Releases New and Improved SEO Services

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New York, NY (PRWEB) December 09, 2012

Powerhouse Internet Marketing Inc., a trustworthy name in Online Marketing, has just released a set of new and enhanced SEO services. This SEO Company Canada has come up with techniques which make the most of the newest Internet technologies and boosts gains for their clients. These SEO services include Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising strategies and copywriting, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) writing, SEO and PPC analysis, paid search services, ethical online advertising tactics and much more.

Generating visitors to view sites is the main objective of Search engine optimization. The search engines are constantly modifying their algorithms to rank the different websites. It is vital to keep track of all these changes so as to stay ahead of the competition and to ensure top positions for their clients in the Search Engines Results Pages (SERPs). Majority of people appear to visit the websites that are listed on the first 2 pages of the major search engines like Google and Yahoo. With this SEO Company Canada’s new service their clients will be listed in top five results, if not the first. That’s what they assure their clients.

Powerhouse believes that is not good enough to create a list of keywords and write them in different articles, no matter if they are related or not. They see it as unethical and are certain that writing such content will cause the rankings to fall instead of rise. This SEO Company Canada performs analysis on who exactly is visiting their client’s site and what link or keyword brought them there. After gathering the information, they put the keywords into creating quality content to put on the site and generate targeted traffic. With the increased traffic, the clients will most probably enjoy a number of conversions and thereby higher sales and profits generated.

Powerhouse Internet Marketing Inc. is an organization that continues to be in the industry of Internet marketing from 2005. Since then they have been serving clients from different parts all over the world and have piled up a customer base of about 600 clients. This SEO Company Canada also offers services such as Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), E-Commerce shopping cart application, Website Designing, Social Media Marketing (SMM), etc. Their practical knowledge and persistence, when it comes to managing each and every client requirement is what makes them one of the popular choices for search engine optimization services.

A satisfied and content client said, “At this moment, social media marketing is becoming extremely important but I did not have the knowledge to add social media into my overall business strategy. I have a Facebook account, but truthfully didn’t know what to do with it. After speaking with Powerhouse, I now have a social media marketing plan that is working quite remarkably! I’m connecting with my old clients, and appealing to new customers. They told me where to focus my initiatives, and it has done wonderful things for my business.”







Mindjet Releases MindManager Meeting Jetpack and Makes Meetings More …

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Templates: Eight new MindManager map templates help jumpstart any type of meeting, allowing teams to capture and organize ideas, develop action plans, encourage problem solving, discover meaningful connections, and prioritize needs. … Syndicated …
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Blue Agility Expands Development Offering
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Fleksy Releases Android Update, Introduces Emojis and Personalization Service

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 13, 2014

Fleksy, the award-winning touchscreen keyboard company, today released its anticipated Android update 1.2.3 to bring a more personal user experience to touchscreen typing. The latest version of the app adds 500 emojis to the keyboard and also includes My Fleksy, a personalization service that integrates a user’s personal writing style with Fleksy’s language algorithm. The update comes after a full round of successful beta testing from the Fleksy Google+ community.

Fleksy’s keyboard now includes over 500 of the most popular emojis, letting users communicate with others using expressive and fun images. My Fleksy lets users import their personal writing styles from Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, SMS messages and personal dictionary, enabling Fleksy’s language algorithm to learn from a user’s unique writing style to improve overall typing accuracy.

“With the incorporation of emojis into our keyboard, which was the most requested feature by our users, we’ve combined the most advanced touchscreen typing technology with the most creative way that users like to express themselves while typing,” said Ioannis Verdelis, COO of Fleksy.

Fleksy’s personalization service, My Fleksy, allows users to import their personal writing styles from Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, SMS messages and personal dictionary. The personalization service enables Fleksy’s language algorithm to learn from a user’s unique writing style to improve overall typing accuracy. “We all have an individual style of writing, and Fleksy’s language algorithm now incorporates this to bring a much faster and accurate experience to touchscreen typing,” said Kosta Eleftheriou, CEO of Fleksy.

Fleksy’s award-winning keyboard has received over a quarter million downloads since its release just three months ago. The app can be downloaded from Google Play here.

About Fleksy

Fleksy is a revolutionary keyboard powered by patent-pending technology that makes typing on any device fast, accurate and so easy you can type without looking. Its unique language algorithm founded on Geometric Intelligence moves beyond text prediction and autocorrect to give a much more accurate and easier typing experience than other keyboards. Winner of the 2013 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award, Fleksy is the first keyboard app to be demonstrated on a 3D gesture system (Leap Motion); the first to be demonstrated on a smartwatch (Omate) and the first to arrive on iOS. Fleksy’s award-winning design and technology is backed by venture capital firms including Highland Capital Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. To learn more about Fleksy, visit http://www.fleksy.com.

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Hector Salcedo

Email: hector(at)fleksy(dot)com

Phone: 415.742.2646

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Unbound Concepts Releases BookLeveler App v3.0

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Columbia, MD (PRWEB) March 18, 2013

In support of National Reading Awareness Month, Unbound Concepts today announced the release of its BookLeveler™ App v3.0, a free, in-hand tool for educators to find accurately leveled educational content for students in their classrooms. The update includes key functionality requested by users since the release of version 2.0 and provides teachers with a solution to address many of the pain points of Common Core State Standards implementation.

“BookLeveler v3.0 is a comprehensive update to our previous prototype versions, and our focus has been to ensure that the app is usable and relevant in classrooms,” commented Benjamin Bengfort, CTO & Cofounder of Unbound Concepts. “We have expanded the functionality and feature set available to educators, as well as grown the library that powers the app – a key demand from our growing base of loyal users. Another significant update is that we now include the results of our text analysis engine – Meridian™ – to provide greater insight into why books are at particular reading levels. This allows teachers to better use the app to craft standards-aligned curricula.”

Significant Additions to Bibliographic Data Result in Improved User Experience

Unbound Concepts recently added nearly 350,000 records to its bibliographic database, transforming its searchable database by 14-fold, a direct result of Unbound Concepts efforts to provide users with a more robust experience. Version 3.0 also links associated titles; as such, unknown ISBNs now prompt a search for similar titles with leveled feedback, allowing users quick access to the levels they seek. These changes provide more comprehensive coverage of K-12 books throughout the app and allow for a more user-friendly experience.

Meridian Badge Eases Implementation of Common Core State Standards

BookLeveler v3.0 introduces the Meridian Badge – an interactive manifestation of Meridian levels. Powered by collaborating educators using BookLeveler, Unbound Concepts’ language processing engine, Meridian, combines crowd-sourced levels with advanced Natural Language Processing to automatically determine the reading level of a book. Meridian also produces Indicants of a reading level – common elements found (or not found) in a book that are strong suggesters of reading level. Several Indicants, such as repetition, knowledge building, and strong relationship of images to text, align directly with Common Core State Standards.

Number of Users: Over 3000

Number of Books: Over 374,000

About Unbound Concepts

Unbound Concepts was created on the strongly held belief that a collaborative approach to knowledge sharing is, quite simply, a better way to live. Blending computer science with trusted teacher recommendations from BookLeveler, Unbound Concepts is powering a proprietary text analysis algorithm, Meridian, that can understand authored content in a deep semantic fashion, bringing value to publishers, educators and fellow scientists in pursuit of collaboration that creates good. The company is co-located in the Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship incubator in Columbia, MD and in the inaugural cohort at Socratic Labs incubator in New York, NY.







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VictorOps Releases Platform to Address Needs of Modern DevOps Teams; Applies Social Media Principle of Continuous Partial Attention to DevOps

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Boulder, CO (PRWEB) February 12, 2014

Coming into 2014 with momentum from a successful fourth quarter of 2013 and Series A funding, VictorOps is tackling the problems facing DevOps teams by taking a cue from social media. Today the company announced the general availability of its alerting and collaboration platform with nearly 200 companies coming out of beta.

This age of continuous software deployment means that larger and larger numbers of development and IT professionals have to be engaged around-the-clock to solve outages and performance issues. For example, a developer responsible for the most recent code change might need to collaborate with the on-call Operations person to resolve a middle-of-the-night problem.

VictorOps platform addresses this challenge by applying the social media principle of Continuous Partial Attention – the process of paying simultaneous attention to a number of information sources but without being 100% committed. Using VictorOps platform, an extended team of developers and operations can stay engaged as needed, boosting collaboration and speeding time to resolution.

“It isn’t just about alert monitoring anymore. Around 70% of an average outage is spent on finding the person with the right knowledge and working together to solve the problem,” said Todd Vernon, CEO and co-founder of VictorOps. “VictorOps leverages the power of Continuous Partial Attention for good in DevOps – enabling Dev and Ops teams to stay connected and make being on-call suck less for everybody.”

General availability features of VictorOps platform include:

On-call schedule management – Users are alerted when and how they want by customizing personal notification policies. Manage teams, on-call rotations and notifications.

Alerting and escalation – When an alert becomes critical, VictorOps makes sure the right person knows about, and that the entire team is up-to-speed on the status.

Incident management – Users get alerted their way. Additional team members can be added through Twitter-like @ mentions to automatically have situational awareness of the incident and everything leading up to it. Swap on-call on the fly and everyone can see the change.

DevOps timeline – VictorOps digests all of the data from existing monitoring systems into a timeline feed so users know the health of their infrastructure at a glance. See what’s up with the team and what they’re talking about.

Team collaboration – By pulling in team members who know how to solve the problem faster, users reduce time-to-resolution and get back to their life.

Fault tolerance – VictorOps is engineered from the ground up for availability, from its redundant network switches to clustered application code. The company’s service is hosted in a state-of-the-art, Tier III Design Certified data center with industry-leading colocation service level agreements. Coming in Q1, VictorOps will run in multiple data centers for even greater reliability.

About VictorOps

VictorOps is the world’s first collaborative platform designed for DevOps teams that combines the power of people and data to solve IT problems in real-time. The VictorOps platform seamlessly orchestrates team situational awareness, incident creation, escalation, notification, and remediation with team members regardless of physical location or time of day. Privately held, VictorOps is backed by Costanoa Venture Capital and Foundry Group. For more information, visit http://www.victorops.com and follow the company on Twitter @GoVictorOps.







PersonalWeb Releases Social Learning Platform Update Enabling College Students to 'Study Together From Wherever'

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Tyler, TX (PRWEB) March 19, 2013

Internet technology company PersonalWeb® announced today the launch of its latest version of StudyPods®, a collaborative social-learning platform for university and college students to connect and share academic knowledge with each other at their own university or at colleges worldwide. The site, created with the help of students in The University of Texas System, enables students to connect, collaborate and share academic knowledge with each other at their own university or at colleges worldwide.

“We’ve adopted a new slogan ‘Study together from wherever’ because it better describes one of the key benefits for using StudyPods so students can easily form virtual study groups,” PersonalWeb President Michael Weiss said.

StudyPods new version 2.3 provides a simplified user interface so students can navigate the study-help site more effectively. Free storage space is now increased to 5GBs for each user to ensure there is ample space to store files. Also included are intuitive prompts explaining key functions and tools featured on the site enabling students to quickly become familiar with all the features of StudyPods.

Through StudyPods, students can create individual Pods based on their college coursework. They can fill pods with anything and everything related to their classes, from presentation slides, past tests to homework assignments, notes, and images. This information can then be shared with other students with similar class subjects who can also contribute content to the Pod. Students can easily find the research they need to help complete assignments, locate similar documents and find Pods that they wish to join.

StudyPods users can also connect with each other instantly through chat and notifications; making group projects more efficient and easier to coordinate.

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About PersonalWeb: PersonalWeb was established in Tyler, Texas by a team who has been responsible for creating some of the Internet’s most popular software and applications used by tens of millions of people worldwide. The company develops groundbreaking products based on its patented technology that is fundamental for many important elements of cloud computing technology, distributed search engine file systems, social media and content addressable storage. For more information, please visit http://www.personalweb.com







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New March Releases from God of War and Tomb Raider Series Unable to Knock BioShock from the #1 Spot on List of Most Compelling Video Game Storylines

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 21, 2013

Bioshock currently sits atop Ranker’s “Most Compelling Video Game Storylines” list with a comfortable lead over closest competitor, Half-Life. What’s interesting is that both games have been out for over 5 years. (Half-Life will be celebrating it’s 15th anniversary this year.) As of March 2013, the crowd-sourced list has been voted on by over 1000 people at consumer opinions website Ranker.com, and includes other popular video game franchises like Mass Effect, Fallout, and Final Fantasy.

The rest of the Top 10 Video Game Storylines are as follows:

1) Bioshock

2) Half-Life

3) Mass Effect 2

4) Mass Effect

5) Half-Life 2

6) Fallout 3

7) Portal

8) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

9) Heavy Rain

10) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

When asked why Bioshock would be number one on the list after all this time Dan Casey, Associate Editor at Nerdist.com, had this to say: “What sets Bioshock’s narrative apart from the pack isn’t just its memorable setting or those terrifying moments when the lights go out and all you can hear is the skittering of Splicers [the villains in the game]; it’s the burden of morality which it forces the player to shoulder, and for that alone, it is a game worth experiencing.”

See the full list of Compelling Video Game Storylines, as well as 1000s of other Video Games lists at Ranker.com.

Ranker.com is the premier crowd-sourced platform for consumer rankings. Consumers visit Ranker.com more than seven million times a month to view, rank and vote on broad, opinion-based questions across a wide range of topics including food, sports, travel, entertainment, cars and many others. The Ranker.com results are pure, unbiased and based on semantic algorithms that assign values based on mean numbers and ranker behavior. For more information, visit Ranker.com.







Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP Releases Infographic Illustrating 2013 Manufacturing Venture Capital Deals

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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 04, 2014

Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP(HA&W), the largest Georgia-headquartered tax, accounting and business consulting firm, released today an infographic illustrating the number of venture capital deals that occurred in 2013 for select manufacturing sub-niches.

HA&W’s 2013 Manufacturing Venture Capital Wrap Up infographic illustrates the number of venture capital deals at all stages that occurred in food manufacturing, automotive manufacturing, chemicals & gases manufacturing, metals manufacturing, plastic containers and packaging manufacturing and distribution. The infographic shows all manufacturing venture capital deals within the U.S. and is broken down further into deals that occurred within the Southeastern region.

Readers can quickly gauge the areas of manufacturing that most commonly receive venture capital funding and the average value of those deals. This is important information as manufacturers look for funding to continue to grow their business, add new products and processes or increase employee count.

“Understanding which manufacturing companies received venture capital funding in 2013 is crucial to those manufacturers seeking funding in 2014,” said Adam Beckerman, partner-in-charge of the manufacturing & distribution group at HA&W. “As they look back at the last year, it’s easy to see which areas were strategic from an investor standpoint. This can help companies make better informed decisions about their future.”

Interested in where the money went in 2013? Check out the full infographic at http://www.hawcpa.com/industries/manufacturing-distribution.

Looking to make more money and keep more of it in 2014? Contact Adam Beckerman, partner-in-charge of the manufacturing & distribution group, at adam.beckerman(at)hawcpa(dot)com or 404-898-8542.

Thank you to Pitchbook (http://pitchbook.com/) for providing the data.

About Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP:

Today, the pace at which work gets done is faster than ever before, and when companies manage that pace by surrounding themselves with the right people, sustainable success happens. That’s why recognizable industry leaders within the manufacturing sector continue to select Habif, Arogeti &Wynne, LLP as their accounting, audit, tax, and consulting firm of choice. Companies looking to increase profitability, streamline processes that improve financial reporting and reduce the time associated with audits, tax planning and compliance choose HA&W. Quicker answers, avoiding unforeseen pitfalls, becoming a better business for the long-run; these are just a few of the benefits clients routinely experience when working with HA&W. Starting up, growing or getting ready to transition? Operating locally, nationally or globally? HA&W gets you where you want to be. Be Successful.

Reach out to HA&W at http://www.hawcpa.com.







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