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We're Doomed…
What an abundance of ugly statistics we’ve seen this past week. An increase in tech sector layoffs and people talking about them. A decrease in chip sales. A decrease in online spending. And now a...
View ArticleUnigo.com Gives Everyone a Say About College Picks
Research on choosing colleges takes many forms, including visiting campuses and studying the schools’ Web sites. But for a lot of high-school students and their parents, finding a centralized resource...
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Good News, T. Rowe Price! Twitter Users Really, Really Love Ads.
So now that Twitter has its $1 billion valuation (and another $100 million in cash, not the $50 million that I’d previously heard), how is the revenue-free company going to start making money? The...
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AOL's Google Reunion Grows Yet Again: Former YouTube Ad Guy Shashi Seth Joins Up
Of course, Time Warner’s (TWX) AOL has hired yet another Google (GOOG) veteran. That’s what the company does under the Tim Armstrong regime. Today’s example: Shashi Seth, the one-time “monetization”...
View ArticleHearst Launches Aggregator Site LMK
Hearst today launched LMK.com, a low-cost Web roundup on topics from college football to reality television. (For the youth-challenged, “LMK” is the texting shorthand for “let me know.”) LMK joins a...
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The Secret Behind the Kindle's Best-Selling E-Books: They're Not for Sale
One big reason readers choose e-books over ink and paper versions: The digital ones are cheaper. This wasn’t the case when e-books first appeared a decade ago. But Amazon (AMZN) has made a point of...
View ArticleOne-Third of the World's Population Online by the End of 2010
This whole Internet thing is really catching on. The number of people online has doubled in the last five years to two billion, and will reach one-third of the world’s population by the end of 2010,...
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Nintendo More Scared of Apple Than of Microsoft
Which company is the greater threat to Nintendo’s gaming business–Apple or Microsoft? According to Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, it’s Apple–at least in the short term. “Do I think...
View ArticleFacebook Looking for Japanese Friends
Sharing is caring, and by linking up with one of Japan’s biggest social networking sites, Japanese users are likely to be finally drawn to Facebook. In contrast to its success elsewhere, Facebook has...
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You May Be Reading This in the Bathroom, on Your Phone
Give Microsoft credit for this one: It’s ginned up a press release I have no choice but to pass along to you. It’s designed to get me to mention today’s Windows Phone 7 launch (Katy Perry! Maroon 5!),...
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The Mobile OS World: Symbian, iOS Are Superpowers; Android a Developing Nation
Some sobering data points for the Droid army and a reminder that the Android onslaught is still largely a domestic phenomenon (for Koreans). Mobile Web usage statistics for the month of October...
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U.S. Smartphone Race Still a Three-Way Contest, but RIM Is Fading as Android...
The latest Nielsen figures on consumer smartphone market share will give all of the leaders something to crow about. Apple can tout that it remains in the lead in the U.S. market with more than 28...
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Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Raises $27.5 Million to Fight Apple and...
Millennial Media, which is often considered the largest independent mobile ad network in the U.S., has raised $27.5 million. The funding comes from Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, Charles...
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Viral Video: James Bond As a Lady
This is perhaps the oddest video in honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, in which James Bond–played by actor Daniel Craig–puts on a dress. No, really. It’s worthwhile to note...
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The Four Tiers of Twitter Users: Tweeters, Voyeurs, Readers and the Uncounted...
Twitter for the first time today offered measurements of how many people actively use its product and how those numbers are growing. What emerged is a view of Twitter usage that is more nuanced than a...
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More Data Beats Better Algorithms -- Or Does It?
Binary code illustration by Matej PavlaAnand Rajaraman from Walmart Labs had a great post four years ago on why more data usually beats better algorithms. He cited a competition modeled after the...
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We're Holiday Shopping Online With iPads for iPads
With all the hyped hullabaloo around just how mobile-icious we are this holiday season — yes, it’s up, but it is also a retailer-cooked trend that reporters grab onto amid the news drought of the...
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Twitter Takes Big Data to School
It’s that time of year again. The tinsel is hung, annoying music is playing nonstop and university classes are winding down while students prep for exams before the holidays. That includes the students...
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Nate Silver Picks the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl (Awaiting Karl...
Nate Silver, the famous poll expert for the New York Times who correctly called the U.S. presidential election for Barack Obama, has really gone out on a limb today, prognosticating that the San...
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Video Shopping Startup Joyus Raises $11.5M in Second Round, Focuses on ROI of...
Joyus, the video shopping platform startup led by former top Google exec Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, said it had raised $11.5 million in a second round of funding, led by InterWest Partners and Time...
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