Horacio Garay

A friend’s birthday comes but once a year, so the least you can do is pick up the phone.

Since the button launched and was integrated on millions of sites, many publishers are reporting large increases in traffic specifically due to this kind of social plugin.

New research shows what many have long suspected: women entrepreneurs are poised to lead the next wave of growth in global technology ventures. 

Like everything these days, great care must be taken to ensure that as few people as possible are offended by anything. Google Instant is no exception. Somewhere within Google there exists a master list of “bad words” and evil concepts that Google Instant is programmed to not act upon, lest someone see something offensive in the instant results… even if that’s exactly what they typed into the search bar. We call it Google Blacklist.

AreYouInterested.com, a dating app on Facebook, recently conducted a study of more than 100 of its Facebook Page members on how bed bug infestation is affecting their love lives.

A yearlong look at technology news coverage by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found that 15.1 percent of tech articles were primarily about Apple; 11.4 percent were about Google; and a meager 3 percent were about Microsoft.

A study conducted at Northwestern University determined that celebrities like Ashton Kutcher with millions of Twitter followers are mostly ignored on the social media site, resulting in very little if any influence.

We’ve taken a look at some simple tips, tricks, tweaks and shortcuts you can use without going down the plugin or experimental route.