A Cautionary Tale About 'People Discovery' Apps
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This was the weekend everyone signed up and joined Highlight or Glancee. TechCrunch has written about it and Robert Scoble has been going on… Read more »
Facebook Pushes Advertisers To Get Creative And Social With Ads
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Facebook showed off a new suite of premium ads Wednesday that it thinks will allow advertisers to interact more directly with their customer… Read more »
Industry Moves: Callaway Digital Arts; Twitter; Shazam
Here is a roundup of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of mobile and digital media business…
– Callaway… Read more »
Industry Moves: NPR; C3 Metrics; MSLO; Callaway Digital Arts; Twitter
Here is a roundup of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…
– NPR: The radio news… Read more »
The Pinfluence Of Pinterest: Magazines And More Delight In Découpage
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If Pinterest is attracting heat for copying publishers’ content, perhaps it’s only fair that publishers give the same treatment to the buddi… Read more »
Apps Are ‘Huge’ For Barnes & Noble
Seeking to advance the narrative that the Nook Tablet is a true multimedia tablet and not just a big expensive e-reader, Barnes & Noble (NYS… Read more »
Google On Defensive Yet Again In Snafu Over Ad-Tracking In Safari Browsers
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to find itself in compromising positions in 2012: the latest comes after an investigation by The Wall Street J… Read more »
What, No Fist Bump?
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Call me a sucker for cool networking tools, but I love Bump and wrote about the Mountain View, Calif.-based back in August 2010. The company’s audacious goal – to bridge the physical and digital world – made a lot of sense to me. Investors, too, liked the company and have pumped in over $20 million into the company. Read more »
Let The Social TV Consolidation Begin! Loyalize Swallowed Up By Viggle
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Social TV startup Loyalize has been acquired by Function(x), the company behind recently launched mobile app Viggle. According to former Loyalize CEO Todd Greene, the Loyalize product will remain a white-label platform for networks and content providers to build their own apps to increase engagement with TV programming as it’s being watched. Read more »
Google: Android Won’t Share Personal Info With Apps Unless You Let It
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In response to the uproar over how mobile iOS applications have had access to address-book data without having to inform the user, Google (N… Read more »
Updated: Time For Apple To Fix How iOS Handles Contact Data
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A week after mobile social network Path found itself in the tech industry spotlight for uploading iOS contacts without explicit permission,… Read more »
MTV’s Music Meter App Out Of Beta For Both iOS And Android
Believe it or not, MTV actually does still care about music: its Music Meter mobile application has shed the beta tag with its 2.0 release,… Read more »
Apple Said To Cut iAd Pricing Once Again
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has once again cut prices on its iAd system for rich in-app advertising on iOS applications, according to a report, as ad… Read more »
Apple CEO Cook: The iPhone Now Casts The Halo Over The iPad
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It’s kind of amazing to consider how passé the iPod, the gadget that defined a decade of music, has become at Apple: the iPhone is the now… Read more »
Microsoft: Only We Get To Use Desktop Mode In Apps For Windows 8 On ARM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has cleared up some of the confusion regarding its plans for Windows 8 computers that will use ARM processors, the fi… Read more »
What’s On Your Strategic Roadmap For Mobile In 2012?
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Is 2012 “the year of mobile?” No sir. Mobile is simply too disruptive to have just one year. After all, who remembers the year of the TV or… Read more »
Google-Motorola Deal Could Be Approved Early Next Week
Google’s bid for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) is likely to get a thumbs up from the U.S. Department of Justice, but still could face opposition from… Read more »
Report: Apple’s iPad 3 Set To Arrive In Early March
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It’s been almost a year since former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2, and according to a new report, the company pla… Read more »
Path Apologizes For Address-Book Data Snafu, Promises To Delete Data
Path, a company hoping to build a kinder, gentler social network based on sharing within a limited number of people, has apologized for a co… Read more »
Facebook’s Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal?
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services — enabling people to buy Facebook Credits an… Read more »
Social TV’s Big Week: Flingo’s $7M Funding Follows Super Bowl
Two days after social TV made a splash at the Super Bowl, yet another new entry in that field, Flingo, announced that it has secured $7 mill… Read more »
Chrome, Meet Android: Google Releases Beta Version Of Chrome For Mobile OS
For years, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) watchers have wondered why the company has used a unique browser on its Android software while maintaining a… Read more »
Apple Promises A Crack Down On Those Who Manipulate App Store Rankings
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It took one allegation of download bots on a message board, very little in the way of actual confessions, and a whole lot of murmurs, but Ap… Read more »
RIM: App World Is Now At 60,000 Apps; 13 Percent Of Publishers Earn $100k+
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Research In Motion is undeniably on the ropes at the moment, with the mobile handset maker weathering a decline in global market share, dela… Read more »
Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’
It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is… Read more »
Was Google’s Disastrous January A Passing Storm Or Sign Of Things To Come?
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It’s a little stunning to contemplate how wrong things have gone for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in just the first month of 2012, as the company hop… Read more »
U.S. Government Developing Android Phones, Promises Quick Software Updates
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The U.S. government likes to do things its own way. Along those lines, it has decided to embrace Android as a smartphone platform for soldie… Read more »
Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising
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Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing mass… Read more »
Google Scanning Apps In Android Market For Malware To Improve Security
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has a dilemma when it comes to the Android Market: its permissive no-review-necessary policy means that anyone can write… Read more »
Leak: Microsoft Planning NFC Support, Skype Integration In Windows Phone 8
Microsoft’s plan for Windows Phone 8–which appears to be moving in step with its overall Windows 8 launch strategy–has been leaked, and th… Read more »
Survey: Kindle Fire Owners Happy With Their Purchase But Not iPad-Happy
Do Kindle Fire owners still like their devices now that they’ve had a few months to kick the tires? A new survey indicates that for the most… Read more »
Facebook May Not Be Into Mobile Ads Yet, But Plenty Of Others Are
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Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the grow… Read more »
Why Tech Innovation Is Taking A Breather
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OK, I’ve been talking with hundreds of geeks from around the world this year at three conferences, CES, DLD, and World Economic Forum. I’m s… Read more »
Zite Brings Intel Inside Its Technology Section In Sponsorship Deal
Zite has cut a deal with Intel (NSDQ: INTC) to have the chip giant sponsor the technology section of its mobile news reading app, only the s… Read more »
Obama Campaign Nominates Square To Gather Mobile Contributions
It’s an election year, which means politicians are frantically trying to raise money for their campaigns. President Obama’s re-election camp… Read more »
Farewell, Yahoo Apps, We Hardly Knew Ye: Deals, News Plus Eight Others Gone
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Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo’s house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO’s tenure,… Read more »
Former Palm CEO Rubinstein Leaving HP After Demise Of WebOS
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Jon Rubinstein, the former Palm CEO who revived the company under WebOS but was never able to produce a breakthrough product after HP paid $… Read more »
Can A Streaming Audiobooks Service Work?
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Audiobooks.com, a cloud-based streaming audio service for iOS and Android, launches this week as a would-be competitor to the Amazon (NSDQ:… Read more »
Samsung: Smartphones Up 30 Percent But You Have To Guess How Many We Sold
Samsung may be king of the Android smartphone world, but it’s playing hard to get. The company declined to release smartphone sales figures… Read more »
Distimo: When It’s Time For A Mobile App Sale, Choose Your Price Wisely
In an insanely crowded mobile apps marketplace, pricing is one of the ways to stand out from the competition: for better or worse. Distimo s… Read more »
