Every March, millions of people fill out an NCAA tournament bracket (or two, or three...), join the office pool, watch the games and track who’s in and who’s out. Workplace productivity takes a big hit during the three weeks of March Madness, with companies losing at least $1.2 billion for every unproductive work hour during the first week of the tournament.

In March, Google made a number of changes to its search results layout. Jon Wiley, Lead Designer for Google Search, summarized the modifications in his Google+ post:

When you develop and post unique content on your website and someone links to it, that’s great! That’s exactly what you want to happen. You want your content to be remarkable so others will link to it, however not all webmasters like to play by the rules.

WhatsApp is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows users to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an agreement to buy WhatsApp for $16 billion—$4 billion in cash and $12 billion in Facebook shares. Much like Instagram (another startup acquired by Facebook), WhatsApp will operate independently within Facebook.

If you haven’t lived under a rock for the last 4 years then you have probably heard of the term ObamaCare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. We have all heard about this website that didn’t seem to be working at first, but now everything seems to be running smoothly. We have also heard that almost nobody was visiting the website and nobody was signing up, but now there are hundreds of thousands of visitors a day and 6 million have signed up in advance of the March 31^st deadline.

The laptop freed us from the desktop computer. The smartphone and tablet took us mobile. If recent Google news (Google is Finally Getting Serious About Wearable Technology) and popularity of SXSW conference sessions on the topic of wearable devices are any indicator, we’ll all soon be suited up with smartglasses, smartwatches and other tech devices.

If you have ever used Facebook or Google as a platform to run advertisements then you probably know there is a huge difference when it comes to the way ads are set up and run on the different platforms. But, all of that is about to change with the new update that Facebook is rolling out. Facebook says this new rollout “will make it easier for advertisers of every size to organize, optimize and measure their ads.”

Did you know that Pay-Per-Click Advertising can be targeted exclusively to people who have visited your website? These are people who have already demonstrated an interest in your products and services.

Who could have predicted that an online social network would change the world? In February 2004, Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg launched “The Facebook” as an exclusive social network for Harvard students. Gradually, Facebook was opened to more users and by 2006, anyone over 13 could join. By December 2013, Facebook had grown to 1.23 billion monthly active users. (Source: Facebook Newsroom).

In January, Google paid 3.2 billion cash for Nest, a company that designs and manufactures sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled, self-learning, programmable thermostats and smoke detectors.