The last time Silverback Marketing reported about any possible FTC investigations into Google was Tuesday, December 20, 2012. Google has encountered numerous collisions of that nature with the Federal Trade Commission over the years, so a news report regarding a new instance is never a complete surprise. The latest investigation and possible fine are very [...]
The rise of social media means that the number of people that have information about themselves for the public to view is on the rise as well. Luckily most social networking websites allow an individual to create privacy settings that prevent the entire online world from viewing the profile. Google+ has different Circles a user [...]
Big week in the Google world folks! Silverback Marketing talked about the latest Panda update this past Monday and February updates to Google on Tuesday this week. Therefore, it only makes sense to wrap up this week focusing on what Google has been delivering to the online world recently. Let’s take a look at some [...]
Back on January 25, 2012 Google started to let its users know that big changes were coming to the service’s privacy policies. Google explains the changes in terms of simplifying the Google search experience by combining all profiles of a user into one neat package. According to Google “the main change is for users with [...]
It is not that people do not want to take steps to safeguard themselves online. Identity theft is horrible and the long-term consequences can be quite traumatic to deal with and resolve. The problem is that most people are not “techies”, so it can be very difficult trying to understand all the steps they have [...]
Now that Google+ is available to the general public it makes sense that Google would continue to launch features that make the social medium unique compared to other brands of social media. The Google+ population may be growing as it recently passed the 50 million mark, but considering that Facebook has over 750 million users [...]
The Silverback Marketing Round-up for September 3-September 7, 2012
Last week the Silverback Marketing Round-up focused on social media and the Republican National Convention. This week the political arena moved to Charlotte, North Carolina ...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hanging on to his stock
May 18, 2012 was supposed to be a big day for Facebook. Unfortunately that date is going to be remembered as the day that Facebook ...
Social media sharing – find a balance between sharing too much and not enough and make it interesting!
Social media can be a lot of fun when used properly. When Silverback Marketing talks about using social media in a proper manner we are ...
