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	LINKEDIN TODAY powered by + You are getting daily emails | Change to Weekly Hi Abdi, check out the top 5 news articles for you today See all headlines Twitter Just Fired A Cannonball At Facebook And Google+ Twitter is revamping the service with personal Twitter profile pages, a new timeline that includes rich media and other related information embedded into tweets, and easier search for information based on @ symbols (usernames)...   businessinsider.com Trending in Nonprofit Organization Management and Graphic Design   Shared by 956 professionals on LinkedIn, including: 15 LinkedIn employees 15 Twitter employees 8 IBM employees SEO Single Most Important Marketing Channel For SMBs SEO: one channel to rule them all? A new “merchant confidence survey” from lead-gen company MerchantCircle/Reply.com, among 2,500 US small businesses, finds that search engine optimization is the marketing channel they would...   searchengineland.com Trending in Information Technology and Services and Marketing and Advertising   Shared by 593 professionals on LinkedIn, including: 5 Spark Energy employees 5 Quantum Mass Media employees 4 Yellow Pages Group / Groupe Pages Jaunes – Canada employees IBM Buys Retail Forecasting And Merchandising Software Company DemandTec For $440M IBM has made a major purchase today in the commerce and retail world—DemandTec, a retail marketing and merchandising software company. IBM is acquiring DemandTec (which listed on the Nasdaq) in an all cash transaction at a...   techcrunch.com Trending in Information Technology and Services   Shared by 189 professionals on LinkedIn, including: 13 IBM employees 7 Emerald Resource Group employees 3 Forrester Research employees The Technologies in IBM’s Watson Used for Drug Research The ingredients that went into I.B.M.'s Jeopardy-winning computer Watson arsenal are steadily finding their way into I.B.M. products. The latest entry is being announced on Thursday, a so-called Insight Platform, which scours...   bits.blogs.nytimes.com Trending in Information Technology and Services   Shared by 74 professionals on LinkedIn, including: 44 IBM employees Rural broadband stalled, says Countryside Alliance 8 December 2011 Last updated at 23:01 ET By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter It is proving to be a long road to getting rural broadband The Countryside Alliance says plans to bring fast broadband to rural areas have stalled....   bbc.co.uk Trending in Information Technology and Services   Shared by 57 professionals on LinkedIn, including: 3 CareerMission.com employees You may also be interested in...   Telecommunications »   Big Banks Look to Occupy the Cloud Computer Software »   Java apps have most flaws, Cobol apps the least, study finds Internet »   Twitter Launches Brand Pages Better. Faster. The New LinkedIn Mobile App for iPhone and Android. Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation