San Francisco-based blogging and sharing platform Posterous announced yesterday on its blog that has been acquired by Twitter adding that Twitter is interested mostly in the people, not the product. Posterous engineers, product managers will join the Twitter team and the Posterous space will remain up and running “without disruption” and users given ample notice if any changes are made to the service. Read more
Russian search giant Yandex announced today it has expanded its European operations, opening a new sales office in Lucerne, Switzerland headed by Bernard Lukey, formerly CEO of one of the Russia’s largest online stores OZON.ru.
Great news for the right-to left-languages: Twitter is now available in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. In terms of business, Facebook is trying to help businesses to measure and improve ad campaigns by launching a “marketing classroom”. Don’t miss 11 Google Analytics tricks to use for your website and also the 5 best practices for Global SEO
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