We present a snapshot of developments around the world that may be of interest to competitive intelligence professionals, wherever you may be based.
The role of research has been absorbed into so many different jobs and functions that employees are becoming “paralysed by information overload”, suggests a new report. According to Dow Jones Factiva, the trend is compounded by a shift in how data is located, searched and processed as the number of consumer devices used in the workplace escalates.
Source: Information World Review
Next year, search advertising will be a $15 billion market in the U.S. alone, growing by 14 percent, according to eMarketer. And, if Facebook can capture half the share of that market that Google has today, it could easily add an extra $25 billion or even far more to its value.
Source: Techcrunch
Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, an application for organizing the display of tweets, for more than $40 million in a mix of cash and stock, according to sources close to the deal.
Source: CNN Money
LinkedIn Corp's shares more than doubled in their public trading debut on Thursday, evoking memories of the investor love affair with Internet stocks during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s.
Source: Reuters
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