Yahoo! en Español pone a las personas al mando de su experiencia en la Web. La nueva página de inicio conecta a los consumidores hispanos de los EE.UU. con lo más importante en la Internet

1 de septiembre, 2010 – Yahoo! en Español presentó una nueva página principal personalizable que reúne lo mejor de Internet y lo mejor de Yahoo! en Español en un solo lugar. Gracias a la nueva página de inicio, las personas podrán agregar fácilmente aplicaciones –ya sea de Yahoo! en Español o de cualquier sitio web– y acceder a ellas desde su computadora o dispositivo móvil para que sus contenidos, servicios y experiencias favoritos, estén siempre al alcance de sus dedos en el idioma de su elección.

Los hispanos de los Estados Unidos valoran los servicios en línea de calidad y los emplean para expresarse y  tener acceso a la cultura pop. La nueva página personalizable de Yahoo! en Español permite a las personas conocer las últimas noticias de su artista de Reggaetón favorito, estar al tanto de lo que sucede en su novela favorita o enterarse de los últimos marcadores de fútbol, todo en un solo lugar. Yahoo! en Español facilita el obtener la información necesaria durante las 24 horas, a través de un solo sitio que sirve como una valiosa referencia, ya sea para conocer más acerca de un pasatiempo favorito o para comprar un auto nuevo.

Yahoo! en Español Puts People at the Center of Their Web Experiences

September 2010 – Yahoo! en Español is launching a new customizable homepage that brings together the best of the Web with the best of Yahoo! en Español in a single destination. With the new homepage, people can easily add apps from Yahoo! en Español or any site on the Web and access them from their computer or mobile device so that their favorite content, services, and experiences are in their language of choice and always at their fingertips.

Abogados - Una nueva ley aprobada en Illinois prohíbe a los empleadores usar el reporte de crédito para no contratar, despedir o darle un ascenso a una persona salvo algunas excepciones.

Cuando la ley "Employee Credit Privacy Act", entre en efecto el 1 de enero del 2011, los patrones no podrán preguntar sobre el historial de crédito u obtener un reporte de crédito de quienes estén aplicando para un empleo.

Como se mencionó, existen algunas excepciones; por ejemplo, cuando la ley estatal o federal se los exija, cuando un empleado vaya a tener acceso a más de $2,500 en bienes activos, o cuando vaya a tener acceso a información personal o confidencial, entre otras.

Se consultó cómo puede una persona identificar si ha sido discriminada al aplicar para un trabajo porque la empresa se basó en su reporte crediticio.

Men and Women Flirting 101 - Ten fascinating flirting facts

By Laura Schaefer - So you’ve mastered the art of eye contact and can beckon a romantic prospect with just a few coy glances… but do you really  know all there is to know about the fine art of flirting? Just to make sure you’re up to speed, we culled some very surprising information that you can use to your advantage. Read on for some juicy tidbits that may up your meet-cute quotient in no time.

Flirting is good for you. Studies show that people who flirt have higher white blood-cell counts, which boost both immunity and health.

Think batting your eyelashes is enough? Wrong! All told, scientists say there are 52 “flirting signals” used by humans. Of these, the hair-flip technique is the most common.

In some places, flirting is illegal. In Little Rock, AR, an antiquated law is still on the books warning that engaging in playful banter may result in a 30-day jail term. In New York City, another outdated law mandates that men may be fined $25 for gazing lasciviously at a female; a second conviction stipulates the offender wear a pair of blinders whenever he goes out for a walk.

Foreclosure Loan Services Alternative

Hipotecas - Fannie Mae says it will begin fining loan servicers who take too long to complete foreclosures once it's been determined that delinquent borrowers don't qualify for a loan modification or other alternatives like short sales. The fines or "compensatory fees" will be assessed when loan servicers can't provide a reasonable explanation for failing to meet timelines for completing routine foreclosures that vary from state to state, Fannie Mae said in a bulletin to servicers.

The time allotted to complete a foreclosure, starting from the referral of a loan file to an attorney or trustee until the date of a foreclosure sale, varies from as little as 60 days in Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia, to 300 days or more in Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Vermont and Wisconsin.

Portable Hot Spot Programs in the United States - Someday, they’ll build wireless Internet into every building, just the way they build in running water, heat and electricity today. Someday, we won’t have to drive around town looking for a coffee shop when we need to check our e-mail. If you want ubiquitous Internet today, though, you have several choices.

Digital Ad Spend grows 47% in First Half of 2010.       

The Rubicon Project, the advertising technology company, reveals exclusive insight into emerging industry trends and market shifts that occurred in the second quarter of 2010, along with insights into what’s next for the digital ad landscape, in the tenth installment of its Online Advertising Market Report series. The report also includes excerpts from the well-attended panel, “Is All Inventory Created Equal?” hosted in June by the Rubicon Project during New York’s Internet Week.

“Ad spend and revenue have both been strong and growing in 2010. Given the proliferation of solution providers and industry players to the market, all working to increase the overall flow of revenue from offline to online, this increase is no surprise”

Mobile phones have become a staple of daily life, so much so that most consumers can hardly imagine going through the day without one by their side. The reliance on mobile devices for just about everything makes mobile a platform that content publishers and marketers cannot afford to ignore.

eMarketer predicts mobile content revenues will rise from less than $1.15 billion in 2009 to more than $3.53 billion in 2014, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 20% over the period.

“The continuing advance of smart devices including tablet-style computers, led by Apple’s iPad—and the growing ubiquity of mobile broadband networks mean that consumers have to make fewer compromises when it comes to the consumption of games, music and video,” said Noah Elkin, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, “Mobile Content: Games, Music and Video Take to the Cloud.” “An improved user experience, and the ability to access an ever-expanding variety of content from the cloud, will attract many new mobile content consumers in the next five years.”

A recent Forrester Research study said that the number of consumers using geolocation apps  such as foursquare, which rewards shoppers with points or offers when they check in at a location, is only a few million monthly and it recommended marketers wait to advertise on such apps until more consumers use them.

Many more consumers may soon be using the technology. Social network behemoth Facebook is hoping to crack the location market with its new offering called Places, a geolocation feature that enables Facebook’s 150 million mobile users to broadcast their location through their Facebook status windows via a smartphone’s integrated GPS technology to friends as well as other Places users nearby. Not only is 150 million a big number, Facebook mobile users are twice more active on the social network than non-mobile users, Facebook says.

The key to designing a successful mobile commerce site that draws traffic and generates sales is summed up by MoreVisibility executive vice president Danielle Leitch with a simple phrase: “Give the customers what they want.”

Leitch, critiques of mobile site designs and apps”, says visitors and shoppers will react positively to a mobile commerce design that is visually appealing, built to accommodate a wide variety of smartphones and web-enabled handheld devices, and makes the visitor feel like she is having a unique experience.

“At the end of the day, no matter how a visitor is accessing the mobile site, the design and functionality need to make that shopper feel like the whole thing is personalized,” says Leitch. “You begin the design process by digging deep into your web analytics to see how and with what mobile device customers are accessing the e-commerce site and what pages they find most important.”

The global online population will grow to 2.32 billion by 2014, up 42% from 1.63 billion in 2009, according to projections from Forrester Research Inc.

The Middle East and Africa will grow the fastest during that time, an increase of 78%, but still account for the fewest total number of Internet users, 241 million. For e-commerce purposes, the report says areas that are set to have the most growth include Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, and such countries as Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey. In the Asia Pacific, online spending by Chinese consumers  will outpace India. Brazil will continue to lead e-commerce spending in Latin America.

Forrester Research projects the online population in the U.S. and Canada will grow 3% each year through 2014, but will comprise just 13% of the overall online population by 2014, down from 16% in 2009. The European online population will grow approximately 20% between 2010 and 2014 and account for 22% of the online population.