Several changes in Baidu's executive lineup occurred today, and fans can take heart in the fact that two of them came about as the result of promotions. The third is a little more troubling, insofar as Baidu's chief operating officer resigned "for personal reasons." The term "personal reasons" has represented any number of realities, of course. A person may be experiencing health or family issues, which is always unfortunate.

The most powerful marketing campaigns are often the ones that we as consumers can identify with or connect to in some way. One way that businesses invoke such a feeling from potential customers is by telling a story with their marketing. This is called (appropriately) storyteller marketing. Dana Todd of Newsforce recently sat down with WebProNews to discuss Storyteller marketing's revival.

Can text-to-voice translation - and vice-versa, voice-to-text - be the godsend that short-message service (SMS) and mobile e-mail marketers have been waiting for? iSpeech would like to think so, as the company on Friday announced its soon-to-be-released upgraded smartphone app that's designed to let on-the-go users listen to text messages and e-mails and then respond by voice. Specifically aimed at automobile operators, the first version of the app, which is dubbed "DriveSafe.

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Baidu's chief operating officer Dr. Peng Ye is resigning his post, effective immediately. The departure is related to personal reasons and no replacement has yet been named. "We thank Peng for his contributions to the company over the last two years and wish him all the best in his future endeavors," said Baidu chairman and CEO Robin Li. That's not the only change occurring in Baidu's executive ranks.

Are you all getting a bit sad that the end of football season is drawing closer and closer? What will you do on Sunday? Well fear not, the NBA season is fully underway and Bing has some ways for you to keep up on all the latest scores and stats. You can always go to Bing.com and type in your favorite NBA team to get the latest stats and schedule. And dont forget the detailed player instant answer. Looks like Lamar Odom brings down some serious rebounds.

Over the past year or more, you have probably heard your fair share of people telling you that you need to use Twitter if you hope to have business success. It's true that there are a great many opportunities and potential benefits to using the service, but do you have to use it? Well, that depends. Is Twitter Necessary? Tell us what you think . In a recent interview with WebPronews, SiteLogic 's Matt Bailey said what a lot of people are probably thinking.

Ford F 150, the biggest Twiter client yet. Image by selfhatingotaku . Twitter Friday is alive and kicking! Welcome back in 2010! The column paused for two weeks in a row simply due to the holidays taking place both on a Friday. Many people didn't tweet during the Holiday season anyways so it wasn't that bad, was it? Of course plenty of things happened anyways but I want to skip them and write about something that struck me as a very important novelty. Ford goes Twitter .

Facebook said today it is launching the Facebook Fellowship Program aimed at Ph.D. students in the 2010-2011 school year. The goal of the Facebook Fellowship Program is to find candidates who can help solve problems surrounding the social web and Internet technology. The Facebook Blog provides more details. "We are interested in a wide range of academic topics, including Internet economics, cloud computing, social computing, data mining, machine learning,

I've been complaining about the embarrassing state of cpc network ads selling belly berry diets and teeth whiteners for some time now. But I may just have to bite my tongue from now on, at least when it comes to these ads appearing on US sites. While browsing Russian current events coverage (a personal interest of mine) I stumbled onto Moscow News, where an article page featured the ad unit below. It appears to be served up by a site called MarketGid ,