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Social Media Adoption Yields New Customers For Small Businesses

By Target Latino

The third wave of the Small Business Success Index, by Network Solutions and the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, reports social media adoption by small businesses has doubled from 12% to 24% in the last year. Small businesses are increasingly investing in applications including blogs, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles. Small Business Social... »

Digital Convergence

By Target Latino

Have you thought of your strategies for 2010-2013? Have you considered this? »

Blogging loses appeal for US teenagers

By Target Latino

A U.S. study has indicated that younger internet users are losing interest in blogging and switching to shorter and more mobile forms of communication. The number of 12 to 17-year-olds in the US who blog has halved to 14% since 2006, according to a survey for the Pew Internet and American Life Project. It suggests... »

Social sites eclipse e-mail use

By Target Latino

Social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace are now more popular than personal e-mail, finds a report. The Nielsen survey of users’ habits found that 67% of all those going online were spending time at social network and blogging sites. Interest in the category is growing four times faster than the other top four sectors,... »

25 social interaction metrics or how to measure your social media marketing campaign

By Target Latino

by Claudia “Havi” Goffan Social media has evolved into an every day way of interaction and communication for a large part of the population. And this evolution started in the last century when social media commenced amidst the original chats in chatrooms and blogs. The first blog was created in the late 1980’s: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/ and it... »

Mega News ‘Edicion Nocturna’ is the ‘First and Only Interactive News in Hispanic Television’

By Target Latino

What: Mega TV is proud to be the first and only Hispanic broadcaster to have a news show that gives the community and audience a voice in its content and reporting. “Edicion Nocturna,” airs on Mega News and uses the Internet and new media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Skype to give audiences the... »

‘Frente a la Crisis – Facing the Crisis’

By Target Latino

Economy crisis impact on Latinos examined in new Radio Bilingue series Families across the nation are feeling the dire effects of the current economic crisis but probably none more so than Latinos, who may be the hardest hit by job loss, home foreclosures, loss of health insurance and deeper poverty – topics that are the focus... »

Quepasa Launches Developer Interface and Open Social Sandbox

By Target Latino

Quepasa Corporation (Pink Sheets: QPSA), one of the world’s fastest-growing Latino social networks, today announced the launch of its Developer Interface and Open Social Sandbox. The launch of the Developer Interface is part of Quepasa’s overall strategy to open the site to third party Open Social developers who would like to develop applications for... »

Materialism in the Non-Material World

By Target Latino

MATERIALISM IN THE NONMATERIAL WORLD =================================== How many customers have you served at your café on Facebook, and how many friends have gifted you fertilizer or plants on FarmVille? The growing movement of social activity in the virtual world includes a great deal of very real economic activity, report researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. While many futurists believe... »

Hispanic Viewers Consume More Content Via Interactive Outlets

By Target Latino

Rentrak Signs Cinelatino – The Leading Spanish Language Movie Channel – As Hispanic Viewers Consume More Content Via Interactive Outlets, Networks are Turning to Rentrak to Understand the Video-On-Demand Market – Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), a multi-screen media measurement and research company serving the advertising and entertainment industry, today announced a multi-year deal with Cinelatino, the leading... »