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Facebook usage in Australia going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... platform actually jumped 2.75% in May to reach 12.2 million. LinkedIn was ranked a distant second with 3.7 million users and Twitter was third with 2.1 million users, according to figures released in the Adcorp June 2013 social media statistics report. ...

Count goes "social" in hunt for accountancy business

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL). Count chief executive David Lane told Financial Standard that it is using Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram to build trust with accounting practices who may be interested in transitioning to becoming financial ...

Clients want a "social" relationship with advisers

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... in Melbourne. According to Ambrose, 73% of clients prefer the LinkedIn platform, with 29% choosing Facebook, Google and Twitter combined. "Nine in 10 high net worth individuals use social media and 52% would like to engage with an adviser through social ...

AdviserEdge Melbourne kicks off on 14 July

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... conjunction with the speaker program, The Social Adviser has set up a comprehensive "social" experience for delegates. Twitter and Instagram will be an integral part of the experience and attendees can tweet questions to Gardner and other presenters ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... the taper was drawing near - in contrast to the more dovish Hilsenrath last week. Stocks drop nearly a percent. Then via Twitter Harding casts doubt on his own predictions and more than half of those losses are reversed. The price action just reinforces ...

Advisers' Twitter usage doubles in 18 months

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... extraordinary growth in advisers using social media; especially the more business and news related platforms, such as Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube," he said. There has been a 123% increase in advisers' usage of Twitter over the last 18 months. That ...

Volatile safe-haven bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
Times like these, I really wish I had a twitter account and most importantly...know how to use it. Then I could just hashtag "what I said yesterday" and I'm done. Finito. Wall Street closed down overnight from up the night before. Like I said, markets ...

Warren Buffett praises Fed stimulus measures

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... me," he said. Often described as an investment rockstar, Buffett is also a self-confessed technophobe, notably joined Twitter last week. "Warren is in the house," his first Tweet read.

It's the headlines, you twit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP." Were it not for this Twitter post - later discovered to be caused by Associated Press' twitter feed being hacked - financial headlines would have you believe ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... (1.11 per cent) to 3,269.33. The market spent most of the day in positive territory, save for a brief plunge after a bogus Twitter message from a hacked Associated Press account said there were two explosions at the White House and President Barack Obama ...