“Never In Business History Have We Seen A Single Company With So Wide Of A Scope In Its Operations,

Online reviews are a big part of consumers’ purchasing decisions. Some 20.1% of US internet users said they always check online reviews before making a purchase. And more than a quarter (29.5%) of respondents said they check online reviews most of the time.

Consumers Like Reading Online Reviews, Not Writing Them - eMarketer

Survey after survey keep showing the importance of online consumer reviews but there is an imbalance between the likelihood of reading them and writing them and hence a challenge for etailers.

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Why the Internet fell apart today

If you were on the internet on Friday morning, congrats! You were one of a lucky few who maintained their connectivity in the face of a massive, nationwide DDoS attack against part of the Domain Name System (DNS), a crucial piece of digital infrastru… http://dlvr.it/MVfRt0

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Bob Dylan (via quotemadness)

The River Arno in Florence, Italy

The disparity in online access is also apparent in what has been called the “homework gap,” or the gap between school-age children who have access to high-speed internet at home and those who don’t. Some 5 million school-age children do not have a broadband internet connection at home, with low-income households accounting for a disproportionate share.

Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption, Monica Anderson, Pew Research Center

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It breaks my heart that there are children struggling to keep up at school because they don’t have the same access to the Internet as their peers. If you also want to help, please consider donating or volunteering: http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/

“Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” — Steve Jobs (born February 24, 1955) http://stuf.ly/2lT6ovV

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill