Microsoft integrates Clarity, its free to use web analytics tool with Bing Webmaster Tools
Sign up for Clarity directly in Bing Webmaster Tools or through https://clarity.microsoft.com
Clarity JavaScript tag can be installed on platforms such as WordPress, Shopify, Google Tag Manager, and others.
Good move by microsoft by integrating this through bing webmaster tool. Would give a lot of information through Analytics & SEO to marketers & developers.
Microsoft’s Clarity – Free Website Analytics tool
Tool shows exactly what users are doing on your site while respecting their privacy.
Clarity shows you which parts of your website get the most and least engagement and it provides an invaluable interface for debugging.
Following are some of the ways in which tool can be used
Session playbacks
Heatmaps
Insights dashboard
(https://clarity.microsoft.com/)
Bing Officially Rebrands As ‘Microsoft Bing’
Microsoft is officially rebranding its Bing search engine as ‘Microsoft Bing,’ with a new logo and new colors.
Updated Bing.com homepage, which features the Microsoft logo
Bing Ads’ was changed to ‘Microsoft Ads’ last year.
Virtual Teleportation from Microsoft’s Hololens. They call it Holoportation and it’s a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time.
It’s vision is that communicating and interacting with remote users will become as natural as face-to-face communication one day.
Microsoft HoloLens seamlessly blends high-definition holograms with your real world. Holograms will improve the way you do things every day, and enable you to do things you’ve never done before.
Global software revenue has totalled $407.3 billion in 2013 as per the report from Gartner. This is a 4.8% increase from 2012. Microsoft is at the top of the chart with revenue of $65.7 Billion with a growth rate of 6%. Oracle is at 2nd spot with $29.6 billion & captures 7.3% of the market. SMAC (social media, mobile, analytics & cloud) is rapidly changing the way business operate & software companies addressing the new technologies. Salesforce.com has the highest growth among the top 10 vendors at 33.3%. Some of the other companies in the list are IBM, SAP, Symantac, EMC, HP & others. HP & CA tachnologies have a negative growth rate of 2.7% & 2.6% respectively.
You will find more statistics at Statista
Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) comics app on Windows app store is the app from Amar Chitra Katha, India’s largest comics publisher. The app has hundreds of Amar Chitra Katha titles in digital format. With this app you can purchase, download & read hundreds of ACK digital comics. With a single user account, you can view the comics across many devices. Some of the salient features are 200+ Amar Chitra Katha Comics, 3 free titles & others. This is available for computers & tablets running Windows 8.
Link: Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) on Microsoft Windows App Store
Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) comic app
Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) comics app on Windows app store is the app from Amar Chitra Katha, India’s largest comics publisher. The app has hundreds of Amar Chitra Katha titles in digital format. With this app you can purchase, download & read hundreds of ACK digital comics. With a single user account, you can view the comics across many devices. Some of the salient features are 200+ Amar Chitra Katha Comics, 3 free titles & others. This is available for computers & tablets running Windows 8.
Link: Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) on Microsoft Windows App Store
Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) comic app
Social Sign ins help users to sign in to a 3rd party website using their existing social media or email logins. With the growth of internet & social media/networking, registration required for all the sites is a tedious process. It takes a lot of time & also to have different user name/logins. In such a case, social sign ins come into picture. Facebook is the top such log in used at 45% followed by Google at 33%. Other companies, like Microsoft, yahoo, linkedin, twitter account for just above 20 percent of social sign ins. Both Google & Facebook account for around 78% of such social logins.
You will find more statistics at Statista
Apple has gained the top spot in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands report. Coco-Cola, which has been in top spot for the last 13 years, has taken the 3rd spot. Google is in 2nd position. This is for the first time in the report that Coco-Cola is not in the top spot. Apple has seen a phenomenal growth in the last few years thanks to iPhone & ipad sales. Many tech companies like IBM, Microsoft, Intel are in the top 10 list.
This report is published annually identifying top 100 best global brands. This year, the total value of all 100 Best Global Brands is USD $1.5 trillion. Apple, which was in #36 position in 2000 with a brand value of $6.6 Billion is now at #1 position with $98.3 Billion. Interbrand’s Best Global Brands methodology is ISO certified & has become a benchmark for the best global brands. Discovery, Duracell, Chevrolet are the new entrants for this year. Facebook, Google, Prada, Apple, Amazon are the fastest rising brands for 2013. Full report can be accessed at bestglobalbrands.com
Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2013
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