Apple India sales jump 400% in the last 3 months, thanks to new strategy
www.thinkdigit.comIt looks like Apple has finally struck gold with the way they are selling their products in India as the last three months show a gargantuan jump in sales numbers for the fruity company.
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Google+ is the social network created and powered by Google?the most?influential?and important search engine around. When Google updates its search algorithms, marketers, bloggers?
Google+ allows businesses to create pages and develop relationships with prospects and clients on multiple levels. Individuals can add a brand to a specific Google+ Circle, share a Google+ page with their social network and interact with the content posted by the brand. For example, users can +1?similar to liking something on Facebook?the updates a brand publishes, leave comments, upload photos and tag the brand in them. The Hangouts feature enables companies to engage with fans, prospects and clients through video conference calls. Streamlined video chat certainly distinguishes Google+ from other existing social media platforms. Video conferences are a great way to build rapport with prospects, highlight the expertise and thought leadership of your organization and give your brand a much-needed?human?touch.
Google AuthorRank is shaking up?inbound marketing?and?SEO?in a major way. The concept of AuthorRank is that the reputation and influence of content creators seriously impacts the ranking of search results. AuthorRank does not negate the importance of PageRank. Instead, AuthorRank utilizes social signals to make search engine results smarter?taking into account the social influence of content and weeding out spam and unoriginal content from top search rankings. AuthorRank is Google?s solution for effectively indexing and judging constant streams of content. To fare well under Google AuthorRank, you and your company must be active on Google+. Each time someone gives your content a +1, it gets a stamp of approval?increasing its reach and magnifying your opportunities for higher rates of traffic and lead generation. Capitalize on these opportunities by having all your original content neatly indexed and more easily found with Google Authorship.
Create robust Google+ pages for yourself and your business?featuring your main content topics in the introductions. Work to increase your influence and credibility on Google+. Be genuinely engaged and participate on the social network on a frequent and consistent basis. Share a lot of great, original content. Build online relationships with industry influencers and thought leaders. Invest time in setting up Google Authorship?properly linking all your relevant content from across the internet to your Google+ page. Set up author verification on your company blog and wherever else you publish original content. You could have your face showing up next to your content in search results; get credit where credit is due. Before you enable Google Authorship, ensure that you have a robust Google+ page with a professional looking photo of yourself?or your company logo for a business page?and bylines on all the original content that matches the name of your Google+ page.
Edit your Google+ pages?both personal and business. Inform Google that you are an author for the sites that feature your content by adding their URLs to the ?Contributor to? section. Then, create a link from your content to your Google+ page.? This step is easy, if you have email addresses on the same domains as the sites you added to the ?Contributor to? section. Next, visit the?Google Plus Authorship?page to enter your email addresses.? If this is not an option for you, you must add the following HTML code to the text of all your original content:?<a href="[your profile URL]?rel=author">Google</a>. Test your content to verify that your Authorship set-up was successful by entering one of your article?s URLs into Google?s?Structured Data Testing Tool. Your Google+ profile picture, byline and ?More by [your profile name]? should show up in the sample search results.
AuthorRank is becoming increasing extremely important for?marketers?and SEO professionals. Strike, while the iron is hot, and act now to avoid getting left behind. You want your content to shine brightly under the AuthorRank system. Do what you need to optimize your Google+ page and enable Google Authorship before your search rankings are negatively impacted. Although Google+ has many great features, including Hangouts and cool photo editing tools,?AuthorRank?is reason enough to take the social network very?seriously. Adapt to AuthorRank, or suffer the consequences.
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A single moment of separated the teams on the scoreboard, but the gap in quality was greater. After the match?s initial settling in period, we knew Nigeria were better. Their superior quality on the ball gave them more promise in attack. As the first half unfolded, the favorites started enjoying large advantages in possession.
Those advantages eventually allowed midfielder Sunday Mba?? a 24-year-old midfielder who?s never played outside of native country ? to break through, scoring the 40th minute goal that downed Burkina Faso and gave the Super Eagles their third African title, 1-0.
Three Mba touches won the Cup for Nigeria. Trying to settle after poor first touch, Mba?(right) poked the ball into over an onrushing Mohamed Koffi?and into the penalty area with his right foot before getting a shot off with his left. The ball didn?t hit the ground. Volleying a shot toward the right post before Bakary Kon??closed him down, the Nigeria-based midfielder gave the Super Eagles the only goal they?d need. Mba put his name?in the history books as the man who reclaimed the title.
That title had been in others? hands for 19 years. For all the acclaim the Super Eagles have received as a result of being a near-perpetual World Cup qualifier, Nigeria had failed to live up to their reputation at home. With this win, the team turns back the clock, winning their first major title since Jay Jay Okocha and Sunday Oliseh were patrolling the midfield.
Another name on that 1994 team was defender Stephen Keshi, the man who coached Nigeria on Sunday. While Mba may have been the man of the moment in Johannesburg, Keshi was the story of the tournament. Much maligned at home for declining to call in veteran stars Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Peter Odemwingie, Obafemi Martins, and Taye Taiwo, Keshi?put his coaching livelihood on the line by wagering a house cleaning would restore some of the Nigerians? spirit ? a pride that had lacking during a 2010 World Cup disappointment and failure to qualify for the 2012 Cup of Nations.
Electing to play a younger, more balanced, and more cohesive team, Keshi saw his gamble vindicated when the Super Eagles ousted tournament favorites Cote d?Ivoire last Sunday. With their 4-1 win over Mali on Wednesday, Keshi?s team got their chance to make history. From the moment Mba?s shot crossed Burkina Faso?s goal line, there was little doubt the Nigerians would have their breakthrough.
From the tournament?s outset it was clear: It was time for Pitroipa to step up. To this point in his international career, the Rennes star had failed to replicate his club form for country. As one of the Stallions? few elite talents,?Burkina Faso was only going to go as far as Pitroipa took them.
With a breakthrough performance, the 26-year-old put that criticism behind him. Seeing his red card suspension overturned before the final, Pitroipa nearly completed the first-time finalists? Cinderella story. With a little more help from his teammates, he might have done it.
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Not all sacred cows shouldn?t be worshipped ? Nigeria?s diminishing results gave?Keshi reason to show his icons the door, but the Super Eagles had to hit rock bottom before somebody (and really, only a few people) saw the light. Other countries with iconic burdens should look to the 2011 Not-So-Super Eagles as a lesson. You should act before you?re forced to do so.
Here in the States, we?re having a debate about Carlos Bocanegra. Fairly or not, people are also starting to whisper about Tim Howard. Italy had to fall flat in 2010, while England?s just recently started moving on from their almost golden generation. These debates happen all over the world.
The lesson to draw from Nigeria: Sometimes moving on doesn?t necessarily mean moving down. Teams get scared that moving the Bocanegras, Cannavaros, and Gerrards of the world aside represents a one-step back, two-step forward scenario, but that?s not always the case. Sometimes the difference in talent doesn?t match the gap in reputation. And reputations are only earned by playing.
Sometimes, you have to take a chance.
Oh these cagey, cagey finals -?Burkina Faso wasn?t bad, but Nigeria was a much better team, just as Spain was a much better team than the Netherlands in South Africa. Both games ended 1-0 mostly because of the styles the teams employed. When the difference in reward between winning and losing is at its greatest, it?s no surprise teams become risk averse.
Mexico came out cagey and almost got burned in the last Gold Cup final. Japan beat Australia 1-0 in extra time of the last Asian confederation final. Only Uruguay (2011 Copa America) and Spain (Euro 2012) took recent finals by the horns, though Spain?s 2008 European title was also a 1-0.
There?ve only been three goals in the last five Cup of Nations finals, but that?s not all Africa. Games with these stakes usually produce cagey soccer.
Sunday?s final dispelled that notion. The Man of the Match is still playing in the Nigerian league. Godfrey Oboabona (right), one of Nigeria?s central defenders, also plays in his domestic league, while Burkina Faso?s impact substitute, Willy Sanou, is playing in the second division of Japanese soccer.
Those stories might not get people watching Morocco 2015, but it is a reminder that good soccer exists beyond our usual haunts. Tournaments like Copa America, Asian Cup, Cup of Nations and even our own Gold Cup are great showcases for it.
And if you?re lucky, some of that soccer will involve something distinct to that corner of the world. Like?vuvuzelas. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Christian Siriano is going to the opera.
The "Project Runway" alum used the Russian opera as the inspiration for his fall runway show Saturday at New York Fashion Week, though he has never seen the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg in person.
He instead used a book of Russian opera houses as reference, and filled in the rest with his imagination.
"I didn't go there, so that's why it's all about the dream ? my interpretation," Siriano said after the show. The girl wearing this collection, he said, was on her way to see the Russian opera.
"I wanted it to be a story of what she wears during the day, what she'll wear for a cocktail dress, what she'll wear to the opera," he said.
His vintage-inspired day looks only hinted at the baroque architecture and romantic drama that Siriano is known for because, he said, he wanted them to represent the beginning of a deepening dream.
They evoke many eras, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and were mostly separates of turtlenecks paired with loose leather trousers and faux fur vests in muted colors such as white, black and camel.
One ensemble included a pointed-toe flat in a penny loafer style, a surprise inclusion given fashion's love for the high heel. Siriano explained it as a way to ensure its wearability, and also because he "wanted it to be a bit more demure, a bit simple."
It was a smart commercial move, given that the collection's shoes will be sold at the budget footwear Payless Shoes and a variety of heel heights will likely sell better.
Other shoes in the collection ran toward the more baroque architecture that Siriano likes, with some looking a bit like "jewelry," he said. They were bootie heels and heeled penny loafers with gold trim, echoing the filigree that anchored many of the evening dresses that closed the show.
The metallic trim was a nod to the interiors of the Mariinsky Theater, Siriano said.
"I like mixing stuff that's gold or opulent or from the 1800s with something that's maybe '20s or '40s," he said, a reference to the slim skirt shapes and knee-length skirts from his day looks.
"It's about how you bring them together," he said. "That's what we tried to do here today."
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Dec. 14, 2012 ? All a question of timing: When bushcrickets mate, the male attaches a sticky package, the so-called spermatophore, to the female's abdomen. Alongside the sperm themselves, this 'bridal present' consists of a protein-rich mass that the female eats after mating. It then takes several hours for the sperm to find their way into the female's reproductive tract. But, who decides when that will happen? A study by the Bielefeld biologists Professor Dr. Klaus Reinhold and Dr. Steven Ramm suggests that it is the male who determines the dynamics of this process even when he has long 'hopped off' somewhere else.
They published their results at the beginning of December in the online first version of the journal Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology.
In contrast to direct sperm transfer, the use of a spermatophore could grant the female more influence over the fertilization or non-fertilization of her eggs. However, the results of the Bielefeld study cast doubt on this assumption. They suggest a high degree of male control over this decisive stage in reproduction. For their study, Professor Dr. Klaus Reinhold and Dr. Steven Ramm from Bielefeld University paired males and females from two subspecies of the bushcricket Poecilimon veluchianus in whom the time between pairing and sperm transfer differ. Whereas in the subspecies Poecilimon veluchianus minor, sperm are transferred within the first three hours, the transfer in Poecilimon veluchianus veluchianus starts only after four hours. If the two subspecies are interbred -- the researchers thought -- then the number of transferred sperm after three hours would indicate whether it is the male or the female who determines how long this transfer takes.
The researchers mated nine to twelve pairs in each of the four possible combinations of Poecilimon veluchianus minor and Poecilimon veluchianus veluchianus. Three hours after mating, they examined how many sperm they could find in the female's reproductive tract. The result: the sperm from the males of the 'faster' subspecies Poecilimon veluchianus minor could be found in the females of both subspecies. In contrast, the males in the 'slower' sub-species Poecilimon veluchianus veluchianus had transferred almost no sperm at all to either type of female.
The researchers conclude from this experiment that the males control the speed of transfer over the sperm package. However, this does not automatically lead to the conclusion that the female is powerless. Females can also influence whether sperms are transferred by how quickly they eat the spermatophore. In addition, the larger the male, the larger the size of the sperm package, and this influences how long the females need to consume the protein. As a result, the sperm have more time to transfer to the female -- and the female's eggs have a greater chance of being fertilized by a 'high-quality' male. Professor Reinhold stresses, 'Our findings show that the females do not determine the transfer -- not that they could not do so.'
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? Although the Econoline van that?s been in production for a staggering 51 years will stick around for a few more, Ford unveiled its replacement today: the full size global Transit.
The new vans are a far different animal than the outgoing models, and take their cues from the European Ford Transit that?s served overseas for decades. The Transit moves away from body-on-frame construction to a unitized body made of boron steel for durability and lighter weight. It will be available in a wide range of configurations. You can mix and match between two wheelbases, three roof heights, an extra-long tail option, and chassis cab.
The smallest model mimics the current Econoline in size, but these Ford get seriously big from there. In the Transit Jumbo (a name so great we had to mention it), interior volume is roughly double the standard Transit's 248.3 cubic feet at a staggering 496 cubic feet. Passenger seating goes from just two up front to a whopping fifteen-passenger version.?
Powertrain options are significantly different. Gone are the two V-8 and V-10. Instead the three engines will include the base 3.7-liter V-6 and 3.5-liter twin turbo V-6 Ecoboost, both fitted to the F150 already, and an inline five-cylinder turbo diesel. Although Ford has not released the specs, in other markets that diesel makes 175 hp and a whopping 397 lb-ft of torque. There?s also a CNG prep package. All engines are backed by the same six-speed automatic found in the F-series pickups and drive the rear axle in single or dual rear-wheel setups.?
? The interior appointments are a sea change compared to the Econoline. The styling, materials, and seating choices are reminiscent of the Fusion or Fiesta?car-like and comfortable, and much different than the gruff, hard cabin of old. Since these vehicles are mostly used as work vans, work options are available including Ford Work Solutions, Crew Chief and other productivity software. The van also gets dragged into the modern era with a full compliment of airbags all around, trailer sway control, and a curve control braking system. ?
?If you need a huge van or a small apartment in Manhattan, look for the Transit to start hitting dealerships toward the end of next year. Expect more specific details about powertrain and fuel economy in the spring.
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