The Newstex Team

The world was obsessed with celebrities and sports in 2015 based on Google's top search trends of 2014. According to Google, the top search of the year was Robin Williams followed by World Cup. Even the top Google Doodles of 2014 were related to sports.

In the academic world, professors' jobs are often dependent on the publication of peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals. Many professors around the world write blogs every day and those blogs are fascinating, but until recently, blogging wasn't taken very seriously in the academic community.

On Sunday, Sucuri reported a huge malware campaign referred to as "SoakSoak" that had compromised over 100,000 self-hosted WordPress sites.

As an Authoritative Content publisher, you publish content that is useful, meaningful, and trustworthy. Your audience reads your content because they perceive you as a reliable and credible source for information that matters to them.

Journalism partnerships have been gaining popularity quickly since 2008, and according to a new research report from Pew Research Center, Journalism Partnerships: A New Era of Interest, this trend will play a significant role in the future of news reporting, publishing, and distribution.

Personalization matters according to 66% of marketers who participated in the "Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing: Why Marketing Should be Personal" research study with Econsultancy and Adobe.

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo! will begin selling prints of 50 million Creative Commons-licensed images uploaded by Flickr users as well as an unspecified number of other photos uploaded by users that will be handpicked from Flickr.

In her speech at the Reuters Memorial Lecture 2014 for the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford this month, Emily Bell, director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism Law School, discussed the dangers to free press caused by the inordinate power of Silicon Valley's social platforms and search engines

What will be hot and what won't be in social media marketing for 2015? It's that time of year and everyone is publishing their thoughts online, but let's go beyond opinions and conjecture to look at some facts based on user behavior.

Believe it or not, more than a month of the third quarter of 2014 has already passed, and it's time to start end-of-year reviews and clean-ups in preparation for 2015.