What Facebook RTB means for marketers

Almost every week since its IPO, Facebook has announced a new development within its advertising strategy. The most important news to come out so far is that Facebook will enter the real-time bidding (RTB) world. While details of the Facebook RTB exchange are still scarce, the bottom line is that advertisers will now be able to buy ads on Facebook in real time, targeting users based on information collected outside of Facebook and stored in cookies...[read more]

Recent AWS Outage Shows Cloud Services Still Maturing

Amazon Web Services is a leader in providing cloud infrastructure as a service, so when its system went down in Northern Virginia during a major electrical storm on June 29 and took high profile clients like Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest with it as it did, people sat up and took notice...[read more]

As the Economy Rebounds, What Professionals Are Most Likely to Switch Jobs?

Over the past five months, the U.S. economy has generated 1 million jobs; accordingly, more workers than ever may be preparing to look for more lucrative work. This infographic by Bizo explores the job types most likely to see major turnover as the economy continues to rebound and the job sectors in which workers will probably stay put...[read more]

In Good Company: Congrats to the AlwaysOn Global 250 Winners

Those of us who work in the technology space are a fortunate bunch. There is an indescribable energy when it comes to the startup world, which I suspect is a combination of fun, ambition, talent, and possibly the kegs and in-office espresso machines. I can still remember when, just a few years ago, Bizo was comprised of just a few guys in a tiny office in downtown San Francisco...[read more]

Amazon Web Services Outages: 4 Steps for Survival

Another Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud outage over the past weekend took down some pretty major services such as Netflix, Heroku, Pinterest and Instagram. At Bizo, a company that provides business marketing services for hundreds of F1000 clients, we serve billions of requests a day across tens of thousands of websites, and have our entire infrastructure on the AWS cloud, but didn’t have any downtime. The simple reason is...[read more]