This morning, Google gave another sign that it's not kidding about cutting its ties with China. The launch of two Android phones in the country - which had been scheduled to take place tomorrow - has been postponed indefinitely. In some respects, this development could be bigger than any decision to take down the Google China site. Google's share of the traditional search market is far smaller than Baidu's, after all,

Skype announced that its share of international calling minutes has jumped by 50% year-over-year. This data comes from a new report released by research firm TeleGeography . According to this report, Skype's share of international calling minutes jumped to 12% from last year's figure of 8%. Telegeography says that the volume of traffic routed via Skype is growing at an "astonishing" pace.

Not every in-house SEO job looks like one at first glance. It may not come prepackaged as an in-house SEO job. Sometimes, you may have to create the job. I am in-house SEO, but that is not all I do and I didn't start there. Phase 1 I started working in the field at my current job. I did not even touch a computer. But, I had just moved cross country, to a house I bought with money I made by promoting affiliate programs on web sites I had previously built myself.

VEVO is a new online entertainment network started by Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media Company and powered by YouTube. The site launched December 8th. And what a first month VEVO had. In December alone, VEVO saw 35,395,000 unique visitors according to comScore. "We are thrilled that the VEVO Network, which is still in its infancy,

Yelp, the local business review community which made it to the cover of Inc Magazine this month AND turned down a Google acquisition in December, is now receiving a rather large amount of financing from Elevated Partners which is around the $50 million range according to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington . TechCrunch also adds that the valuation is lower than the $550 million that Yelp turned down from Google . Given the investment in Yelp and its employees,

One of the most popular articles on SEJ is about using social media profiles for Online Reputation Management (ORM) , which is a great starting point for ORM, however, there are some problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of this method.  Most people will never have to deal with the kind of ORM problem that requires more advanced techniques, but it's important to be ready, just in case you come up against an ORM nightmare.

Two weeks ago, Baidu announced that its Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Peng Ye, was leaving the company. Now, Baidu is announcing another major resignation. Chief Technology Officer Mr. Yinan Li. Officially, both Ye and Li left for personal reasons. "We appreciate all that Yinan has contributed to Baidu and we wish him every success in his future endeavors," said Robin Li, Baidu's chairman and chief executive officer. No replacement for Li has been named.

Microsoft is making some updates to Bing privacy. The company sent a letter to the Article 29 Working Party , notifying them of its intention to make a change to Bing's data retention policy. The company is reducing the amount of time it stores IP addresses from searchers to 6 months from 18. "Generally, when Bing receives search data we do a few things: first,

With SEJ tools you can unite all your personal projects and client work under one dashboard which saves time and effort. What's more, you can even create multiple logins with different permissions to give access to your co-workers or freelancers. Let's see how this works. 1. Create Multiple Profiles The first step in aggregating and organizing all your projects is creating separate profiles for each of them. To add a Profile,

This is a guest post by Samir Balwani , the founder of Training Social , a resource for those interested in social media training . Techipedia readers can use code Tamar for a 15% limited time discount when registering. One of the most common questions in social media is - "is it worth it?". Because of the nature of the marketing tool, each industry differs to the point that people just aren't sure. Many would use a blanket statement that it's useful.