Marc Baumann

Real-time search engines have proliferated over the last month, with a series of launches from start-ups like Topsy, almost.at and Scoopler. The companies are hoping to edge in on a space that Google co-founder Larry Page has admitted is a weakness for the search giant. And they’re using microblogging and social bookmarking sites as tools to figure out what content is relevant up to the second. - Marc Baumann from Bookmarklet

"Sales of BlackBerrys, iPhones and other smartphone models are rising smartly and are projected to increase 25 percent this year, according to Gartner, a research business." - Marc Baumann from Bookmarklet

Michael Segalla, a professor and researcher at HEC School of Management in Paris, studied how Europeans conduct layoffs to test for trends in national values. The research found that, overall, European managers tend to make layoffs based on a "first-in, first-out" principle in which older, more expensive workers are the first to go. - Marc Baumann from Bookmarklet

Very interesting: Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found. - Marc Baumann from Bookmarklet