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The following infographic shows some social media statistics of Fortune 500 companies. Some of the findings include:

• 23% (144) of Fortune 500 companies have a public-facing corporate blog
• 62% of Fortune 500 companies have an active corporate Twitter account (with a tweet in the past 30 days)
• 58% of Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook Page.
• The Insurance, Speciality Retail (Apparels, Home Appliances, Furniture), and Food Production, Services and Drug Stores industries have the most number of Facebook Pages.

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“As the Internet spreads throughout the developing world, it’s arriving on phones before traditional computers. Some 70% of Internet users in Egypt, 59% in India, 57% in South Africa, 50% in Ghana and 44% in Indonesia get online via mobile phones alone.”

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According to a white paper from Covario, Coca-Cola is ranked the world’s No. 1 brand among 100 advertisers on Facebook. The beverage brand has a following of 34 million fans on Facebook, with a monthly growth rate of almost 3%. Continued…

A list of some of the digital news, articles & trends as collected over the past week:

• Google’s new Search by Image
• Tumblr Now Has More Blogs Than WordPress.com
• Young European Women Spent Most Time on Social Networks
• Facebook Loses 6 Million US Users in May
• A Field Guide to Brand Advocates (PDF Study)
• Up Close With Twitter’s New Photo Sharing Feature
• Foursquare community has over 10,000,000 members!

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A list of some of the digital news, articles & trends as collected over the past week:

• Virgin America’s New Terminal Checks Into Foursquare, Facebook
• Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users’ Problem Solving
• In China, Burberry Stores Get Digital Makeover
• The New Information Age
• Facebook Places, Foursquare: Tiny 2% Impact on Business?
• The Current State of Social Networks: Winners & Losers
• The Linguistics of ReTweets
• LinkedIn Launches Textin
• How Social Media is Changing the Education Industry
• Facebook May Strike China Deal With Baidu
• Facebook Won’t Become E-Commerce Force, Analyst Says
• Microsoft Unveils First Internet Explorer 10

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Please find below a list of top news, articles & trends across the digital marketing, social media and mobile marketing industries:

• The Unlit Social Graph
• 6 Questions With Virgin America’s Porter Gale: Getting Social Media Right
• The Rise of the ‘Second Internet‘
• Will Facebook Ever Become An E-commerce Powerhouse?
• Why the Mobile Web is Not the Traditional Web
• The 10 Most Innovative Web Companies
• 5 New Technologies that Will Change the World of Mobile Advertising
• How HTML5 Will Kill the Native App
• Twitter to Offer Brand Pages (Like Facebook’s)
• Marketers Shift More Dollars Toward Social Media
• Larry Page Just Tied ALL Employees’ Bonuses To The Success Of Google’s Social Strategy
• Twitter Arms Marketers with More Tools to Target Users
• Facebook for iPhone Gets Events Check-Ins, Maps & Unfriending
• How to Create Effective Facebook Wall Posts
• Don’t Think of Foursquare As a Game
• Angry Birds Rio: 10MM Downloads in 10 Days

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Apple’s iPad is more than a trendsetting gadget on the hotlist of brand conscious consumers worldwide. It’s a reminder – and proof – that never before has innovation and “thinking outside of the box” been more important. You see, if you’re open to exploring new ideas and mindsets, the iPad is only a small demonstration of what digital possibilities hold true for brands thanks to technology. Continued…

The Mobile Art Lab in Japan have come up with a concept that combine interactive devices with creative literature. This is demonstrated below in a video that combines the iPhone and a book, in turn resulting in an interactive storytelling experience between parent and child.

Just shows you how reality is preceded by imagination. We like it.

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