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.

It’s back, but most likely you probably never knew it was gone. Google has some fun features sometimes that really don’t seem to serve much of a purpose. Maybe Google just decided that they were bored and wanted to add a new feature. These are the type of things that make us smile and enjoy Google. Of course we are talking about the amazing timer feature that can be accessed right from the search tool.

With over 70 million active users in 2013 Pinterest growth rate surpassed Facebook and LinkedIn. Pinterest became the 3rd most popular place to share things on the Internet, cruising past email. This growth was driven by women who make up 65% of the social network. With all of this growth we knew that changes would soon be coming to the popular platform.

In 2014, Content Marketing is still the key to a powerful SEO campaign and an active, engaging social media presence. The opportunities for content placement are growing because online publishers need to make money!

A study by J.D. Power found that in 2012, 47 percent of vehicle owners indicated they used a downloaded app on their smartphone for navigation in their vehicle, compared with 37 percent in 2011. Notably, 46 percent of owners indicate they “definitely would not” or “probably would not” repurchase a factory-installed navigation system if their smartphone navigation could be displayed on a central screen in their vehicle.