Pinterest is now the number three most-popular social network in the U.S., behind Facebook and Twitter, according to Experian Hitwise. A new report from the researcher shows Pinterest got 21.5 million visits during the week ending Jan. 28, a nearly 30-fold increase over a comparable week in July. ... Read more...
Here's a big shift happening right before our eyes: Smartphones now account for 50% of all mobile phones in the United States, Nielsen reports. Don't expect smartphone growth to slow any time soon. In the last three months, 66% of all mobile phones sold were smartphones Read more...
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09/04/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Technology,
The Facebook Killer,
twitter,
World News
This Zuckerberg guy uh... he's uh... pretty smart Facebook just bought Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram is a mobile-only photo-sharing app. It grew from 1 million users in January 2011 to 15 million in December 2011. It has 30 million users now. What's great about ... Read more...
Companies like Google are developing head-up displays for the consumer market (Credit Sellingpix | Dreamstime.com)Mobile World Congress 2012 wrapped up today in Barcelona, Spain and from the looks of it, the latest crop of mobile devices failed to impress with their homogeneous displays, process... Read more...
Live Nation's Russell Wallach has done his fair share of research into branding. Just this year, his company has paired Weezer with State Farm and 30 Seconds to Mars with HP to try and help each with cross-promotion. After appearing at the Billboard Touring Conference's "Sponsorship Buyers And S... Read more...
Your Facebook phone may be the equivalent of having a KGB agent tailing you. Mark Zuckerberg will be in your pocket. You might as well wear one of those ankle bracelets for tracking. The Facebook phone is in play—again—and it appears we have another 12 to 18 months to go before mobile a... Read more...
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09/01/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
Technology,
The Facebook Killer,
World News
Facebook accounts for 95% of social networking time on the web in the U.S. according to an analysis of comScore data provided to us by web publisher Ben Elowitz of Wetpaint. (We would think this holds for mobile, but it's possible Twitter has more of a hold there than on the desktop.) Elowit... Read more...
Apple and Google activated a record breaking number of mobile devices this Christmas, according to Flurry analytics, which delivers mobile analytics to developers. Flurry has 140,000 apps running its software, and believes it can track every new Android or iOS device activated. Between December 1... Read more...
Smartphones are entering every level of society on a global level, and the ability they give to the people to control the message at world events is unparalleled in world history. This year has seen one event after another unfold throughout the world, culminating recently with the Occupy mov... Read more...