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Apple profit doubles from holiday sales

Apple made some serious bank over the holidays. Apple announced on Tuesday that it brought in revenues of $46.33 billion (

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Google merges privacy settings

Google has announced changes to its privacy policies that from 1 March will move users to one single, consolidated policy. “Despite trimming our policies in 2010, we still have more than 70 privacy documents covering all of our different products,” Director of Privacy, Product and Engineering Alma Whitten wrote on the Google blog . “This approach is somewhat complicated. It’s also at odds with our efforts to integrate our different products more closely so that we can create a beautifully simple, intuitive user experience across Google .” Most of Google’s products and services will be included in the new privacy policy – Google Books, Google Wallet and Google Chrome will all retain their own policies. As a result, the new policy grants Google explicit rights to combine users’ personal information across the majority of Google’s products and services. “Our new privacy policy makes it clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services. In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all products,” Whitten wrote. For users, the new privacy policy means that when signed in, user data will be shared between services – for example, between Gmail, YouTube, Google+ and Google Maps – resulting in more refined search results and relevant ads. “We can provide reminders that you’re going to be late for a meeting based on your location, your calendar and an understanding of what the traffic is like that day,” Whitten said.

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Social networks Focus on the User

Fed up with being ignored by Google , engineers from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have joined forces to create a new tool that gleans search results from social networks other than Google+. ‘Focus on the User’ uses Google’s algorithms to “determine what social content should appear in the areas where Google+ results are currently hardcoded.” By using the tool, users can see search results from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, along with LinkedIn, Tumblr, Flickr, Foursquare, Crunchbase, FriendFeed and several other social networking sites across the web. Instead of automatically being met with Google+ results, users can see the most relevant social media results on any given search. “When you search for ‘cooking’ today, Google decides that renowned chef Jamie Oliver is a relevant social result,” the website said . “That makes sense. But rather than linking to Jamie’s Twitter profile, which is updated daily, Google links to his Google+ profile, which was updated nearly two months ago.” The bookmarklet – dubbed ‘Don’t be Evil’, after Google’s own motto – runs in Chrome, Firefox or Safari and automatically checks for any social profiles associated with a given search term, replacing Google+ profiles.

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How to Produce a Winning Webinar

Today’s technology allows us to connect with and form relationships with people all over the world right from our home or office. A webinar is a great way to do this because of all the tools and technology available to us. A webinar is just like a seminar only it is done online via your computer. Webinar is short for web-based seminar and they can be very instrumental in building your business. Webinars can help your business by allowing you to train your recruits and/or sales team. They can also be useful in building relationships and generating sales leads. Producing a successful webinar does take some work and you need to know what you are getting into.

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Google Releases iPhone Integration

New improvements have been integrated by Google for the iPhone, for the recently launched suite of web applications including Search, Gmail, Calendar, and Reader, among other applications, into one interface.

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HotPads.com Premieres Housing Comparison Portal

HotPads.com has launched what it characterizes, is the first Buy vs. Rent search portal, including home comparisons for sale and apartments for rent simultaneously.

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Yahoo! Auto Discounts, in AMEX OPEN

Automatic discounts of 5% on Yahoo! Search Marketing and Yahoo! Small Business services, have been included in the American Express OPEN solution, to assist small businesses in expanding.

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hakia Investment Reaches $21 Million

engine, hakia, has attained a total of $21 million in financing from all shareholder investment capital.

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Infosurv Reaches Industry Growth

Infosurv has reported record milestones in business performance noting continued strong demand for its online survey research services.

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