by JAM | Mar 22, 2013 | LISTA
Annual digital marketing budgets, on average, amounted to 2.5% of a company’s revenue in 2012 and will grow 9% this year. The majority of companies spend between 10% and 50% of their marketing budget on digital efforts, with an average of 25%. That spending covers...
by JAM | Mar 22, 2013 | LISTA
A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday finds that one in three drivers in the United States use their cellphone while behind the wheel. The director of the CDC calls it a fatal distraction and said it’s much more common in the U.S....
by JAM | Mar 22, 2013 | LISTA
Microsoft’s Outlook.com email service suffered a massive 16-hour outage yesterday, which saw users unable to access parts of SkyDrive, Hotmail, and Outlook, too. Microsoft has revealed that it was a result of a mischievous firmware upgrade—which caused “a...
by JAM | Mar 22, 2013 | LISTA
Ford Motor Co. is not America’s biggest company. That’s ExxonMobil, according to CNNMoney’s annual “Fortune 500” rankings. Ford is not America’s top seller of cars and trucks. That’s General Motors, according to Automotive...
by JAM | Mar 22, 2013 | LISTA
Fueled by mobile and multichannel offerings, America’s enthusiasm for online shopping shows little sign of slowing down, according to Forrester’s just-released forecast for the year ahead. E-commerce sales in the U.S. are likely to climb 13% to total $262 billion in...
by JAM | Mar 14, 2013 | LISTA
Despite a near constant barrage of news stories about cyber-espionage and cyber-attacks, business and government remain woefully behind the curve in instituting adequate safeguards. Meanwhile, threats grow and the risks multiply. According to the World Economic Forum,...