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Apple posts record quarterly revenue

Super strong results from Apple today for their third-quarter (to the end of June) period.The Company posted record revenue of $15.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share.These results compare to revenue of $9.73 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.83 billion, or $2.01 per diluted share, in the [...]

chart: tech company R&D spend

Silicon Alley Insider have published an interesting chart showing relative R&D expenditure for a number of the major tech companies.  As you can see, Microsoft continues what’s been a long standing trend for them of spending big on R&D – both as an absolute number and also as a percentage of revenue.  That said, both [...]

top 50 'social' companies in the US

Infographics .. love ‘em or hate ‘em, the following is an interesting one courtesy of Flowtown showing the top 50 companies in the US as ranked by their use of social media networks.

Based on data from a NetProspex survey encompassing 100,000 employees from across the ’states, the rankings are based on the average number of [...]

Dow Jones' venture financing report: US good, Europe not so much..

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Dow Jones have released their first quarter venture financing report showing an overall increase of 13% in deals YOY – raising US$7billion.

Good news for the US where (perhaps not surprisingly) the majority of investment was made, although the average deal size in the US fell.

China’s still performing well though, with an 35% increase [...]

owning a Blackberry adds 10 days to your working year

Perhaps they were simply searching for a compelling headline, but an article over at the Telegraph Online suggests that users of Blackberrys (and presumably other smartphones) end up adding up to ten extra days of work per year, by virtue of being constantly online and available.

My experience is actually different to that – and in [...]

the state of the Internet, in video

Jesse Thomas, self-titled ‘genius’ of social media, has put together some nice animations showing the ’state of the Internet’ for a presentation he gave at AIGA, Baltimore in February.  Some biiggg numbers on show!

the full video is embedded below:

data visualisation and analysis tools for Twitter

Whilst these have been around for a year or so now, I thought I’d make mention of some incredibly useful (and cool) visualisation tools from the very clever Jeff Clark over at Neoformix.  If you’re looking to do some market, customer and campaign research, competitive analysis or simply draw some pretty diagrams, Jeff’s probably got [...]

better clean up those Facebook photos before your next interview

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Unless you plan on staying completely off of the grid, it’s somewhat hard nowadays to avoid leaving quite an extensive digital trail.  Whilst a lot of that might actually prove rather useful at some point (white papers, insightful blog posts, stunning LinkedIn profiles), you might like to consider removing – or at least [...]

real-time stats show social media growth (and help explain why we're drowning in data!)

The very cool Gary Hayes from Personalized Media has created a head-spinning Flash app (embedded below) that gives a great visual impression as to the speed of growth in social networks and associated data.  Of course, the numbers aren’t absolute but nevertheless are an amazing indication of what’s happening around the globe right now and [...]

the evolution of social media and business

We promise not to make every article here about ‘Social Media’, but this post by @briansolis caught the eye.

Reflecting some findings by the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, the following figures show how the use of social media concepts has changed over the past three years in various categories.

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