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Google Gets $660,000 Fine, Because Google Maps Is Free

Google faces a $660,000 fine after a French court ruling that the company is abusing its dominant position in mapping by making Google Maps free. According to The Economic Times, the French commercial court “upheld an unfair competition complaint lodged by Bottin Cartographes against Google France and its parent company Google Inc. for providing free [...]

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How Google has grown

Google is one of the largest companies in the world, not just online but offline as well. The internet titan has come a long way since it started as a research project way back in 1996. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin met, I wonder if they could have dreamed that their little college project [...]

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Whitehatters Launches in Cape Town

Web SEO was at the launc of Whitehatters in Cape Town on 1 December 2011. Whitehatters is the launch of South Africa’s first gathering of SEO like-minded people, digital agencies and businesses. Co-founders Synergize , R.O.I. Media & Cape Peninsula University of Technology are proud to present this event. We will be supporting this initiative in any [...]

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Web SEO Teambuilding

Web SEO had a great team building breakfast at Zand Bar – we dont work all the time – JUST MOST OF THE TIME  

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Broadband-Packages

South African broadband deals are costly compared to the rest of the world

Ookla’s Net Index shows that South Africans are not getting a particularly good deal when it comes to broadband value for money. The latest Net Index ranks South Africa at number 58 out of 64 countries in its global consumer broadband value report. The Net Index ‘household value index’ uses recent surveys from Speedtest.net to [...]

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Search-Engines

Google versus Bing & Yahoo

We all know that Google owns the vast majority of search traffic. But can the current David-sized combo of Bing and Yahoo sling a head shot at the Giant of Search… in say the next 18 months? Experian’s Hitwise reports that Bing continues month over month to scratch at Google’s heels. Search agency Rosetta shows [...]

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How to Deal with a Hacked Site

You’ve put a lot of time and effort into your site. Then, one day, you load up your site in your browser, and find that it’s not there, or it redirects to a porn site, or your site is full of adverts for performance-enhancing drugs. What do you do? Here are some steps to take: [...]

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Will You Put Your Whole Life on Facebook With the Timeline Feature?

The Timeline feature Facebook announced at f8 conference, is blowing a lot of people’s minds. “Tell the whole story of your life on a single page,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said as he announced the feature. That, in a nutshell, is what the timeline is all about. Sure, it will feature your recent Facebook activity, classic [...]

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FaceBook connects more than 800 million users

“The land of Facebook” had just overtaken the US as the third biggest country in the world, with 800 million people, compared to America’s 308 million. More than 50% of its active users log on to Facebook on any given day More than 2 billion posts are liked and commented on per day Facebook serves [...]

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Who’s on top of the social media pile?

With social media well woven into our social lifes now, wheres does the owner’s, founder’s and ceo’s of these companies rank compared to their competitors and peers. Below is a list of the 30 wealthiest social media tycoons in the world. table { border-collapse:collapse; } table, td, th { font-size:10px; border:1px solid grey; } td [...]

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