The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was enacted in 1986 to protect user data from government oversight and significant portions haven't been updated since. That's a problem, advocates s...

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) relocated its data centers to North Carolina. Instead of relocating 250 servers, they leveraged the opportunity to create a virtual infra...

Despite supplier rumors that seemed to indicate a Verizon iPhone coming early next year, recent comments by Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg suggest otherwise. Seidenberg said that Apple's device won't app...

I was discussing the changing landscape of the public relations market over coffee the other day with a couple of PR professionals and we got to chatting about how social media is changing their indus...

Ranking for a competitive keyword is never easy, so before making the link building investment its important to not only target the right keywords, but target the right pages for those keywords. I’d...

Cross-posted on The Engaged ConumerIf you haven't met our VP of strategy here at Powered, Greg Verdino, you should try and remedy that soon. He's a smart guy who brings a healthy dose of wit and snide...

My friend Vinnie Mirchandani is advising a new CIO colleague who is looking for a short and hard-hitting list of IT metrics to start tracking.  I’m a big believer in the less is more philosophy in...

It’s possible that Google borrowed a few principles from behavioral psychologists when building Google Instant in order to get people to search more. They have 5 ‘suggested results’ as a maximum...

Can social media be used to make the world a better place? We believe it can, so we’ve declared today Social Good Day.Mashable and (RED) invite you to join the social media for social good movement...

LinkedIn announced that it  has agreed to acquire ChoiceVendor, which is a company that provides ratings and reviews of B2B service providers in more than 70 categories across the United States. Ch...

While reading my RSS feeds in Google Reader I came across this interesting infographic made by by infographiclabs for blogharlad about the state of the blogsphere in 2010. Here are a few highlights fr...

Facebook Ads, I Think I Love You My major focus the last three months has been Facebook advertising. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get awesome results with Facebook ads. It’s been a person...

  You can’t escape it. Everyone’s talking about HTML5. it’s perhaps the most hyped technology since people started putting rounded corners on everything and using unnecessary gradients. In f...

Location check-in game SCVNGR is launching a widget to help local businesses use their Facebook Place Pages to drive foot traffic to their stores. The SCVNGR widget allows businesses to offer rewards...

According to Business Insider, 2010 has been Google's most successful year in regards to the volume of acquisitions they have completed. The nearly doubled their next best year with 23 acquisitions in...

Visa has just rolled out a new pilot program that allows New Yorkers to pay subway, bus and train fares with a wave of their iPhones.New York City Transit, NJ TRANSIT and the Port Authority of New Yor...

Traditional B2B public relations is no longer the highest-demand avenue to develop an effective voice for your brand. According to a recent Digital Readiness Report, 18% of marketing decision makers...

It's with no surprise that your ability to build a strong brand is greatly influenced by the decision makers around you. The answers to a few obvious questions are very revealing. Is your CEO the pr...

This is the first of 2 posts on the results from our 3rd brandgym research paper, this one on Being a Brilliant Brand Leader. Thanks to everyone who everyone who took part. We had feedback from people...

Twitter plans to launch a free analytics dashboard that will help its users – especially businesses – understand how others are interacting with their tweets.Member of Twitter’s business develop...