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CloudMagic has gone Metro. The excellent search service, which I’ve been a fan of since it made its debut in 2010, is now available as a native application for Windows 8’s Metro interface. CloudMagic’s Windows 8 edition still delivers super-speedy, accurate search results across a host of services, but it is a bit hamstrung by some of Windows 8’s own problems.
You can download the CloudMagic app from Microsoft’s Windows Store, and it installs quickly. If you already have a CloudMagic account, the app remembers all of your settings, and doesn’t need much in the way of set up: You log in and you’re good to go.
If you don’t have a CloudMagic account already, the signup process is simple, and it’s easy to link the services you’d like it to search. CloudMagic currently searches the following services: AOL, Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Gmail, Google Apps, Google Drive, Google Talk, GMX, Hotmail, iCloud, Mail.com, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Microsoft Office 365, MSN, Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Twitter, Windows Live, and Yahoo Mail. You simply grant CloudMagic access to the accounts you’d like it to search, and it goes to work indexing them.
While the basics are the same, the actual experience of using CloudMagic as a Windows 8 Metro app is very different from using it in your browser, as an extension. Where the browser extension displays results right on the Web page you’re viewing, the Metro app is its own standalone app. You search from within the app itself and see all of the results in there, too.
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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
CORRECTING and REPLACING Autoblog Canada Launches Québec Edition
Driving original automotive content in Québec
MONTREAL–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Headline of release should read: Autoblog Canada Launches Québec Edition (sted Autoblog Canada Launches Québec Regional Edition).
The corrected release reads:
AUTOBLOG CANADA LAUNCHES QUÉBEC EDITION
Driving original automotive content in Québec
AOL Canada announced today the launch of Autoblog Québec (quebec.autoblog.com) the French language edition of its popular automotive site Autoblog Canada (ca.autoblog.com).
Autoblog Québec, led by editor Jean-François Savoie will combine award-winning content from the international editions of the site with featured content from key contributors, including Philippe Laguë, of L’annuel de l’auto and Le Devoir, and local journalists from across the province. With 50 per cent of Quebecers (3 million UVs) currently visiting automotive sites, Autoblog Québec will provide a new destination for original automotive news and industry content, new car reviews, international auto show coverage and captivating best-in-class photo and video galleries to a highly engaged audience*.
“We saw great demand from both users and advertisers to bring the Autoblog Canada blend of original edgy content and comprehensive reviews to our French speaking audience in Quebec and across the country,” said Paul Cramp, general manager, Autoblog Canada.
The launch will extend the distinctive and authoritative voice and original content offered by Autoblog Canada to french speaking visitors. The expansion only further supports AOL Canada’s commitment to growth for both French language sites and original local content, as Autoblog Québec joins Le Huffington Post Québec in AOL Canada’s growing French language portfolio.
AOL Autos, which includes Autoblog Canada currently attracts 712,000 unique monthly visitors across Canada*. AOL visitors in Québec have a strong purchase intent and are 28% more likely than the average online adult in Québec to buy or lease a vehicle in the next 12 months**.
*Source: comScore, Inc., Total Canada, Home and Work, January 2013
**PMB/comScore, 2012 Fall Fusion
About AOL
AOL Inc. (NYS: AOL) is a brand company, committed to continuously …read more
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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Autoblog Canada Launches Québec Regional Edition
Driving original automotive content in Québec
MONTREAL–(BUSINESS WIRE)– AOL Canada announced today the launch of Autoblog Québec (quebec.autoblog.com) the French language edition of its popular automotive site Autoblog Canada (ca.autoblog.com).
Autoblog Québec, led by editor Jean-François Savoie will combine award-winning content from the international editions of the site with featured content from key contributors, including Philippe Laguë, of L’annuel de l’auto and Le Devoir, and local journalists from across the province. With 50 per cent of Quebecers (3 million UVs) currently visiting automotive sites, Autoblog Québec will provide a new destination for original automotive news and industry content, new car reviews, international auto show coverage and captivating best-in-class photo and video galleries to a highly engaged audience*.
“We saw great demand from both users and advertisers to bring the Autoblog Canada blend of original edgy content and comprehensive reviews to our French speaking audience in Quebec and across the country,” said Paul Cramp, general manager, Autoblog Canada.
The launch will extend the distinctive and authoritative voice and original content offered by Autoblog Canada to french speaking visitors. The expansion only further supports AOL Canada’s commitment to growth for both French language sites and original local content, as Autoblog Québec joins Le Huffington Post Québec in AOL Canada’s growing French language portfolio.
AOL Autos, which includes Autoblog Canada currently attracts 712,000 unique monthly visitors across Canada*. AOL visitors in Québec have a strong purchase intent and are 28% more likely than the average online adult in Québec to buy or lease a vehicle in the next 12 months**.
*Source: comScore, Inc., Total Canada, Home and Work, January 2013
**PMB/comScore, 2012 Fall Fusion
About AOL
AOL Inc. (NYS: AOL) is a brand company, committed to continuously innovating, growing, and investing in brands and experiences that inform, entertain, and connect the world. The home of a world-class collection of premium brands, AOL creates original content that engages audiences on a local and global scale. We help marketers connect with these audiences through effective and engaging digital advertising solutions.
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By Lewis DVorkin, Forbes Staff
I spent eight years at AOL and I’ll say this: I saw none of the great, all of the bad and some of the good. Throughout, the media took dead aim at our strategic zig-zags and revolving-door CEOs. We were definitely fair game. AOL created community, then lost it. It won the dial-up era, then limped into broadband. It tried to replicate MySpace and YouTube and missed badly at each. In the mid-naughts, we did hit upon a low-cost, quality content play, buying an innovative startup, Weblogs, and its publishing platform. The media wasn’t impressed, scoffing at a bunch of no-name bloggers. I urged our news staff to avoid “the noise,” reminded them the world was changing fast and to stay focused on what we were building. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
By Jacqueline Vanacek, AdVoice Small businesses account for nearly two-thirds of net new job creation. And they innovate more than large businesses do, generating 13 times more patents per employee. That’s according to AOL founder Steve Case in a recent interview about “Restarting the US small-business growth engine.” …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
By Jon Wallis, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
LONDON — One of Warren Buffett‘s famous investing sayings is “be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful” — or, in other words, sell when others are buying and buy when they’re selling.
But we might expect Foolish investors to know that, and looking at what Fools have been selling recently might well provide us with some ideas for investments that are past their prime
So, in this series of articles, we’re going to look at what customers of The Motley Fool ShareDealing Service have been selling in the past week or so, and what might have made them decide to do so.
Six-month high
Less than a month ago, Vodafone was at the No. 1 spot in the “Top Ten Buys” list* — so what’s happened to put it at the top of the “Sells” list?
Well, for one thing, its share price hit a six-month high last week, reaching almost 188 pence during March 11, a level not seen since August last year. After the company’s somewhat roller-coaster progress since then — it dipped as low as 154 pence at the end of 2012 — people may have felt inclined to take some profits.
They may also have started having some concerns about Vodafone’s future. The surge in Vodafone’s price last week came on the back of strong rumors that U.S. telecom leader Verizon Communications was considering the future of its relationship with the UK..-based telecom giant. Perhaps Verizon will buy Vodafone out of its 45% share of Verizon Wireless — currently estimated to be worth around $115 billion (77 billion pounds) — or else there might be a merger which, if it happened, would be the biggest in corporate history. (In reality, Verizon would effectively buy Vodafone, but it’d be called a “merger” to keep everyone happy.)
While selling its stake in Verizon Wireless would give Vodafone a considerable lump sum to play with, it would also mean the loss of a generous cash-cow — Verizon Wireless generated a dividend of over $3.8 billion (2.5 billion pounds) for Vodafone at the end of 2012, and $4.5 billion (3 billion pounds) the year before.
And any potential merger would not be without considerable attendant risks. Large corporate mergers and acquisitions have a habit of being deeply disappointing, if not deadly — think AOL/Time Warner, HP/Compaq or (and also in the telecoms industry) Sprint/Nextel — with more failing to achieve their financial goals than succeeding. Any short-term gain in Vodafone’s value generated by the excitement of impending nuptials could easily be more than wiped out in the long-term by a failed marriage.
So perhaps some people decided to take some profit now from Vodafone’s improved share price, on the back of the initial rumors, and then wait and see what happens.
A high-quality income share
Many people will have bought Vodafone for its dividend, currently 5.2%. Here at the Fool, our analysts have been focused on finding The Motley Fool’s Top …read more
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By Michael Lewis, Lewis, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Typically, spinoffs are great opportunities for investors to snag up underfollowed, and sometimes undervalued, companies while the rest of the market turns a blind eye. For two upcoming publishing spinoffs, though, it’s going to be a hard sell even for special-situations lovers. The publishing business is in upheaval, and these two companies are a large part of what is being upheaved — and it’s probably why their parents are using this bull market as an excuse to unload these revenue drains.
Of course, since analysts and investors have been quick to squawk about these seemingly terrible investments, I’m compelled to take another look. There are few elements to stocks more attractive than being universally disliked by the Street and its minions. Let’s see if these two upcoming publishing spinoffs are as bad as they say.
Introducing the losers
Companies spin off their components in efforts to unlock hidden value in the parent, the subsidiary, or sometimes both. When a thriving business is burdened under a slower-moving conglomerate, sometimes the only way is for it to take on a life of its own as another public entity. In this case, though, it’s really the parents that are thriving and need to be allowed to fly free.
News Corp. is a parental case in point. It’s a diversified media company with properties ranging from Fox News to The Wall Street Journal. It’s been a strong company that’s weathered disruptive technology and industry change well, phone hacking aside. The stock has responded accordingly, rising more than 50% in the past 12 months. The company is currently a top favorite among hedge fund managers, as its upcoming schism will yield one company that operates the difficult publishing business, and one that operates the media and entertainment operations — including the highly valuable regional sports networks.
The other company to announce excommunication of its publishing side is Time Warner . This is third major spinoff for Time Warner, which already separated its cable company, Time Warner Cable , and its Internet property, AOL . Though volatile at times, Time Warner Cable performed well in 2012, rising a bit more than 50% throughout the year, only to retract a bit in the early months of 2013. After a decade-long rough patch following the tech bust of the early 2000s, AOL seemed to have finally turned the corner midway through 2011 and has since been on a nearly vertical trend.
For both companies, though, these latest spinoffs haven’t been met with enthusiasm. Just this week, Yahoo!‘s Jeff Macke ripped into both prospective companies, citing Time Inc.’s troubled titles such as People magazine. The magazine industry, with the exception of those that have taken to the Web successfully, is getting crushed. A weekly newsrag, regardless of its content, cannot compete with the instant gratification of the Huffington Post or Gawker.
News Corp.’s spinoff may be more attractive than Time Warner‘s, as the aforementioned Wall Street Journal remains the end-all publication …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
Filed under: Company News, Media
By RYAN NAKASHIMA
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Time Warner Inc. (TWX) said Wednesday that it will spin off the magazine unit behind Time, Sports Illustrated and People into a separate, publicly traded company by the end of the year.
CEO Jeff Bewkes said in a statement Wednesday that the decision to split off the Time Inc. magazine company will give Time Warner “strategic clarity” and enable it to focus on its TV networks including TNT, HBO and CNN, and its Warner Bros. studio, which produces movies and TV shows.
He said the move would create value for shareholders, similar to the company’s previous spin-offs of Time Warner Cable (TWC) and AOL (AOL).
In recent weeks, Time Warner had been in talks to combine all of Meredith’s magazines with Time Inc.’s lifestyle titles such as People, InStyle and Real Simple. But talks broke down over a value for the combined company and over which magazines from Time Inc. would be included in the mix, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Meredith said Wednesday that it respected Time Warner‘s decision and hoped to work with it on future opportunities. Meredith publishes magazines aimed at women such as Better Homes and Gardens, Fitness and Family Circle.
Time Warner shares rose 79 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $56.25 in after-hours trading following the announcement, after closing up 41 cents at $55.46. Shares of Des Moines, Iowa-based Meredith fell 80 cents, or 2 percent, to $39.50 in after-hours trading after closing down 86 cents at $40.30.
Analysts have estimated that the Time Inc. division is worth around $2.5 billion.
Time Warner said the spin-off would be tax-free to its shareholders.
The move completes the years-long unwinding of a media and telecoms giant formed in 2001 when America Online, an Internet access company, used $147 billion worth of inflated stock to buy Time Warner, in what has been regarded as the worst corporate merger of all time.
Expected company synergies never materialized. Over the years, Time Warner moved to spin off the cable TV hookup business as well as AOL in order to focus on its profitable and growing TV and movie businesses.
Matthew Harrigan, an analyst with Wunderlich Securities, said shareholders have wanted the spin-off of the challenged magazine business for some time, mainly because the rise of Internet advertising has steadily eroded ad revenue from print publications.
Investors had come to see the magazine business as a drag on revenues and profits. According to the Publishers Information Bureau, U.S. magazine advertising revenue fell 3 percent in 2012 to $21 billion.
“Investors like pure plays and some instances where there are genuine synergies,” he said. “I think they concluded it was a bit of an odd duck.”
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As we first reported last October, it appears that the Speed channel – currently offered in more than 80 million homes in North America – will likely be rebranded as Fox Sports 1 late this summer. The renaming will allow Fox to broaden the channel’s focus and air content from its Major League Baseball and National Football League contracts. A more general sports format will also position Fox more aggressively against ESPN and its various sports channels.
There is no word as to what the network plans to do with Speed’s 75,000 square-foot facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, but its current renovation may be part of the plan to turn it into an anchor desk for Fox Sports 1.
Pending an official announcement from Fox, there has been no mention as the to fate of Speed’s automotive content – both The List and Translogic, AOL‘s programming, currently appear on the Speed.
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Though the Internet is made up of tens of millions of websites, people spend the vast majority of time on just a handful of sites. According to comScore, an Internet analytics company, Americans spend most of their time online on Facebook — 10.8% in December 2012. That month, Americans spent another 10% of their Internet time on Google properties, including Google search and YouTube. Based on comScore’s report, “U.S. Digital Future in Focus 2013,” 24/7 Wall St. identified the 10 Web properties where people spend the most time.
Many of the top online sites have managed to significantly increase the time spent on their sites in the past year due to the rise in mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. The top 25 digital media properties in December 2012 increased their reach through mobile channels by 29% compared to December 2011. Some increased significantly more than that. ESPN expanded its digital reach by 56% compared to 2011, more than any of the 25 largest online properties except for Pandora.
The growth in mobile engagement has not necessarily been good news for Internet companies. “There is a concern that there is trading dollars for dimes,” Andrew Lipsman, vice president of marketing and industry analysis for comScore, said in an interview with 24/7 Wall St. Advertising rates on mobile devices are just a fraction of what they are on desktop computers.
Carmela Aquino, a senior marketing manager at comScore, added that while there certainly has been a shift to mobile devices, their usage has often complemented personal computer (PC) usage rather than replaced it altogether.
Still, some of the move to mobile has cannibalized surfing the Internet on a PC. To compensate for some of the loss, along with generally trying to boost engagement on all platforms, there has been an increased emphasis on video content at many of these properties, which commands much higher advertising rates.
Sites such as Yahoo! and AOL have made significant investments in video content through Yahoo! Finance’s live programming and The Huffington Post’s HuffPost Live. Lipsman also points out that the Google’s Youtube, which has been streaming videos since 2005, has seen the quality of its user generated content increase significantly. Higher quality and longer form content should improve advertising revenue.
“What the Internet went through in the past decade, mobile will have to go through the next decade,” Lipsman said. “But over time, advertising dollars follow eyeballs.”
There have been other reasons that engagement has risen on many of these properties. Portals such as Yahoo! are offering customized content to individual users based on their search history and what their friends have shared on social media. Both Aquino and Lipsman argue such customization makes the sites more attractive to users.
Furthermore, engagement also has risen and likely will continue to do so on sites such as Amazon and eBay due to the growth in online retail. For instance, during the final three months of 2012, eBay sales rose 18% compared to the prior year. At Amazon, those sales rose …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
By Jean Chatzky
Filed under: Banks, Credit Unions, Savings Accounts, Saving
Everyone has things they want to improve about their financial lives — even those of us who are paid to write and think about money on a daily basis. To that end, some of the editors at AOL and Daily Finance have shared their financial goals for 2013. In return, I reached out to some experts for tips that can help these folks – and everyone who has a similar resolution – step-by-step their way toward making these goals reality.
“I want to finally pull the trigger and move my accounts to a credit union,” says Bruce. “Also, I’m going to formally put away 10 percent of every paycheck, rather than just saving all my leftover money at the end of every month.”
Here’s what Jean advises:
Step 1: Have you already landed on a credit union to use? If not, you’ll have to do a little bit of research. Bankrate.coms Greg McBride suggests checking to see if your employer is affiliated with one; if not, he says alumni associations, your community and your family might be a great way to get a good suggestion. If word-of-mouth isn’t your thing, the National Credit Union Administration has a look-up tool that you can access here.
Step 2: Once you’ve decided on a credit union and have opened the new accounts, make sure you change the direct deposit information for all your bills. Just to be safe — and to make sure you haven’t forgotten about a gym membership with a quarterly charge — leave your old account open for at least three months before you completely close it.
Step 3: As for your savings goal, if you’ve heard it before, you’ll hear it again, and again: If you want to hit that 10 percent mark every month, automate the savings process. Better yet, head to HR with the account number, routing number and bank info of the account you want to receive this 10 percent. They’ll deduct it right from your paycheck, so you’ll never even see the money (and be tempted to use it).
Read the previous article in the series: Her Financial Goal: Cut Out All Those Small Money Wasters
By Eric Savitz, Forbes Staff AOL shares are trading lower Thursday after the online content and services company announced two key management changes. COO Artie Minson is stepping down. The WSJ reports that he had differences with CEO Tim Armstrong on the right strategy for AOL‘s Patch and Huffington Post units. The company has named Susan Lyne, an AOL board member who is also Vice Chairman of Gilt and a former CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, to run AOL‘s Brand Group. AOL said Lyne’s appointment is part of “continued efforts to streamline its operations and give its business unit leaders more autonomy and accountability.” …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
Filed under: People
She paved a way for herself in male-dominated Silicon Valley, and now she’s encouraging other women to join her. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s (FB) chief operating officer since 2008, aims to launch a new women’s movement with her soon-to-be-published manifesto, “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.”
Sandberg tells her story in “Makers: Women Who Make America,” a new documentary airing Tuesday. An initiative by PBS and AOL, the film chronicles the past 50 years of the women’s movement…
The Makers: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Empowering Women originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2013-02-26T15:30:00Z.
By Jean Chatzky
Filed under: Mortgages, Refinancing, Home Loans
Everyone has things they want to improve about their financial lives, even those of us who are paid to write and think about money on a daily basis. To that end, the editors at DailyFinance and other AOL sites shared their 2013 goals with personal finance expert Jean Chatzky. Today she offers some tips to help DailyFinance editor Laura Goldstein lower her monthly mortgage payments.
Step 1: Before you do anything, HSH.com mortgage expert Keith Gumbinger suggests asking yourself two questions….
Her Financial Goal: Win at the Refinancing Game originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2013-02-26T10:00:00Z.
High-tech leaders including the former heads of AOL and Mozilla are organizing a “virtual march for immigration reform” aimed at pressuring lawmakers to enact sweeping changes to the nation’s immigration laws. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
Filed under: Technology, CEOs, People
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When Ursula Burns started as an intern at Xerox more than 30 years ago, she had no idea that she would someday end up running the company. “I just chose to work,” she says simply.
But it’s safe to say that she probably wasn’t entirely suprised. Burns — who became the first African-American female CEO of a Fortune 500 company when she took the reins of Xerox (XRX) in 2009 — has never lacked for confidence. “I learned from my mother that if you have a chance to speak, you should speak. If you have an opinion, you should make it be known.”
Burns tells her personal story in “Makers: Women Who Made America,” a new documentary film airing on Tuesday, Feb. 26. An initiative of PBS and AOL, the film chronicles the past 50 years of the women’s movement, through the experiences of trailblazers like Burns and other pioneers in business, media and the workplace. (Check your local listings for air times.)
A summer internship turned into a full-time job in 1981, when Xerox hired Burns as soon as she completed her master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Columbia University. It wasn’t necessarily the predictable path for someone who grew up “very, very poor” in a Manhattan housing project, raised by a single mother “who was struggling to feed us properly and make sure that we got a good education,” Burns recounts in the film.
A few years later, her mother’s admonition to speak up brought Burns to the attention of Xerox senior executive Wayland Hicks when she challenged him over the role of women and minorities at the company. By 1990, she was Hicks’s top assistant, starting her ascent up the corporate ladder. At the age of 51, almost three decades after joining the company as an intern, she was named CEO.
Both Forbes and Fortune magazine have consistently named Burns one of the most powerful women in business. But she remains down-to-earth. The day she got the top job, she says, she called home and her daughter answered. “I was made CEO today,” she said. “Yeah,” her daughter replied. “Wanna talk to Dad?”
Burns points out that her appointment wasn’t the only history made that day. She took over the job from then-Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, making it the first female-to-female CEO transition in Fortune 500 history.
To see interviews with more than 150 Makers in business, politics, sports, arts and more, go to Makers.com.
By Jean Chatzky
Filed under: Debt, Credit Cards, Savings Accounts, Saving
Everyone has things they want to improve about their financial lives, even those of us who are paid to write and think about money on a daily basis. To that end, the editors at DailyFinance and other AOL sites shared their 2013 goals with personal finance expert Jean Chatzky. Today she offers some tips to help AOL Real Estate editor-in-chief Graham Wood, who wants to be more disciplined about saving so he can wipe out his credit-card debt.
Here’s what Jean suggested:
Step 1: Here’s a…
His Financial Goals: Saving More and Paying Down Credit Card Debt originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2013-02-25T05:00:00Z.
CloudMagic is growing up. This super-speedy search service debuted a few years ago and over time has evolved to offer some very useful features, including Facebook and Twitter search. Now, though, CloudMagic is making some of its biggest changes yet, including the ability to integrate your personal search results with Google’s global Web results. And the company is no longer offering unlimited searches for free, a move that may alienate some users. However, 50 free searches a month will suffice for many; the unlimited searches of the Pro subscription costs $5 a month.
CloudMagic’s core search tools work the same as always: you sign up for an account, and link the services you’d like it to search. It supports a huge range of services, including AOL, Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Gmail, Google Apps, Google Talk, GMX, Hotmail, iCloud, Mail.com, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Microsoft Office 365, MSN, Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Twitter, Windows Live, and Yahoo.
Once access has been granted, CloudMagic then begins indexing your accounts, which can take some time if your accounts are sizable. It took several hours to index a Gmail account containing thousands of messages, but only a few minutes to index a newer Twitter account. You can begin searching right away, but waiting until the indexing process is complete will deliver more accurate results.
The service is still available as it has been in the past, as a browser extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, an add-on for Internet Explorer, and a mobile app for the iPad, iPhone, and Android devices. The browser extensions and add-ons appear as simple search box on any relevant Web pages; if you surf to a page that doesn’t support CloudMagic, you don’t see the box. You can move the search box around the page if it’s in your way, and you can minimize it to a corner, too.
You enter your keywords in the search box, and CloudMagic goes to work, instantly (and I do mean instantly) displaying results as you type. The results appear in a column that appears below the CloudMagic search box as soon as you begin typing. Results are organized by source; if you enter a search string while on your Gmail page, you’ll see results from there, but you also can scroll down to see results from your other accounts, like Facebook and Twitter. In CloudMagic’s latest iteration, the results are as accurate as speedy as they have always been.
What’s new about CloudMagic is how you can access its search results. It is no longer limited to displaying results in its own search box. CloudMagic now lets you see your personal CloudMagic results when conducting Google searches. This feature, which is available using Chrome, Firefox, and Safari with the browser extension installed (except Internet Explorer) works whenever you enter a search query in Google. CloudMagic displays …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld
By Jean Chatzky
Filed under: Retirement Plans, 401K, Planning
Everyone has things they want to improve about their financial lives — even those of us who are paid to write and think about money on a daily basis. To that end, the editors at DailyFinance and a few other AOL sites shared their 2013 goals with personal finance expert Jean Chatzky. Today she offers some tips to help Sarah Chazan, editor-in-chief of AOL Music, take control of her retirement plan.
“For years, I’ve blindly been putting money into a 401(k) but have neglected to learn about what…
Her Financial Goal: Get a Handle on Retirement Planning originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2013-02-22T09:30:00Z.
