The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “How Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Became one of the Most Powerful Women in the World”. Alicia Eler says, “Mark Zuckerberg is on his way to becoming one of the richest people in the world, but when it comes to influence in the worlds of politics and business, he sits in the shadow of his chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg. Sandberg, 43, is credited for the success of Facebook’s advertising strategy”. How Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Became one of the Most Powerful Women in the World ReadWriteWeb  [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Facebook’s Biggest Risks Explained”. Dan Rowinski says, “Facebook is about to jump into unfriendly waters. If founder Mark Zuckerberg thought the company faced fierce competitors in Silicon Valley, he is about to find that the denizens of Wall Street are not nearly so forgiving. There are risks to going public. How does the world perceive your company? Can the platform grow and maintain its edge? The trick for Facebook will be to balance the concerns of its shareholders with the need to push the boundaries of innovation.... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “GOP Tries To Top White House’s #40dollars Twitter Campaign”. Dave Copeland says, “Last month the White House struck upon a particularly effective idea: using the #40dollars hash tag on Twitter, they asked voters what $40 meant to them. That, the Obama administration said, was the amount of money that would have disappeared from an average middle class paycheck if Republicans allowed a tax cut to expire”. GOP Tries To Top White House’s #40dollars Twitter Campaign ReadWriteWeb  [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “The Other 99% of Entrepreneurs”. Sramana Mitra says, “In my recent piece Reengineering Capitalism I highlighted a phenomenon that the global entrepreneurship ecosystem is paying very little attention to: Over 99% of entrepreneurs who seek funding get rejected. Yet, the entire world is focused on the 1% that is “fundable.” The media, when pitched a startup story, is interested in who funded the venture. They seldom ask how much revenue the company has or if it is profitable”. The Other 99% of Entrepreneurs ReadWriteWeb  [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Surprise, Surprise: Amazon Doesn’t Say How Many Kindle Fires It Sold”. Dan Frommer says, “Amazon is notorious for sharing very little information about how its products and business units perform. Its new Kindle Fire tablet is no different. Amazon just reported its fourth quarter financial results, and, shocking no one, it doesn’t disclose how many Kindle Fire tablets it sold. Or even how many total Kindles it sold”. Surprise, Surprise: Amazon Doesn’t Say How Many Kindle Fires It Sold ReadWriteWeb  [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Hate the Facebook News Ticker? Some Can Now Hide It”. Alicia Eler says, “Users made a big stink about the Facebook news ticker, that annoying, constantly updating feed in the upper right-hand corner of the homepage. Facebook responded. Now some users have the option to hide the ticker. This is good news for people who prefer to use the news feed and would like to avoid noisier information about which links their friends “like,” what friends are listening to on Spotify and who is now friends with whom. Teenagers... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Why Goodreads Gave Up on Amazon”. Jon Mitchell says, “Goodreads, the social network for reading and reviewing books, had tomake a change this month. It moved away from its main source of book data, the Amazon Product Advertising API, citing its “many restrictions.” It completed the transition to Ingram Book Company‘s data today, and it also draws from other open data sources such as libraries. The transition went smoothly, but Goodreads did lose some data. “Fewer than 2% of our 7 million users... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “[Infographic] Google Apps Has Some Big Paying Clients”. David Strom says, “SaaS backup provider Backupify has recently examined its own customer sample to do some demographic profiling of Google Apps users. The results are somewhat intriguing, as you can see in the infographic below. If you remove .edu domains, Google Apps still has nearly 40% of all of its seats used by businesses with more than 10,000 employees. The company surveyed their customers who have at least 30 users”. [Infographic] Google Apps Has Some... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Trying to Keep Up With Chrome, Mozilla Preps Firefox 10”. John Paul Titlow says, “The latest stable release of the Firefox Web browser is on its way. Firefox 10 will emerge from beta with a few new features, most of which are geared toward developers. As is often the case, the new version pushes forward with a few of the latest features in emerging Web standards like CSS3, HTML5 and related technologies. In Firefox 10, it’s more about the under-the-hood stuff than the on-the-surface user experience”. Trying... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Think Before You Tweet, And Other Good Advice From The Experts”. Dave Copeland says, “Officially, Sree Sreenivasan is the dean of student affairs and a professor at Columbia University’s Journalism School, but for many he is the curator of Sree’s Tips, a Tumblr blog crammed with how-to social media information, as well as a leading figure in the social media movement. This past weekend he was also the point person for Columbia’s Social Media Weekend in New York”. Think Before You Tweet, And Other... [...]