Smartphone usage in the US at an all-time high
It wasn’t long ago that smartphones—cellphones built on mobile operating systems with more advanced computing capabilities—were an innovation that only the truly tech savvy or wealthy owned. But all...
View ArticleTwitter, how you have grown
As Twitter celebrated its seventh birthday Thursday, we are reminded of the changes that it has gone through in those seven years. There have been quite a few. When the first tweet was sent out seven...
View ArticleWith bad news about the news industry comes insights about digital ads
As the Pew Project for Excellence released its recent report, “The State of the News Media 2012,” we could see that the news industry is in trouble. But the report also lends some insight about...
View ArticleGoogle begins testing same-day delivery shopping service
Joining a field of e-commerce players such as Amazon and eBay, Google is rolling out its public test of delivering goods to people’s homes and offices on the same day they order them online.In a blog...
View ArticleFacebook expected to announce Android phone
Facebook will make its biggest yet in an overall strategy to dominate the field of mobile devices and to turn itself into a mobile company. In a similar vein to Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft,...
View ArticleHow new Facebook Home may be an advertiser's dream
So, Facebook didn’t actually manufacture its own phone. But it did announce Thursday that it’s infiltrating the Android platform with software called “Facebook Home” that integrates the social network...
View ArticleFacebook's new partner categories will boost ad targeting
In an attempt to allow advertising partners to target more people, Facebook launched its “partner companies” program Thursday, an expansion of the social network’s advertising platform to allow for...
View ArticleTwitter expands trends in 160 more locations
While the Chicago Bulls’ win last night may have been trending on Twitter users’ feeds in Chicago, it’s doubtful that people in Italy care all that much. For this reason, Twitter announced today that...
View ArticleTwitter expected to launch music service, possibly this week
In its seven years of existence, Twitter has been evolving into a media hub, becoming a source for news, photos, videos and now, quite possibly, music. As music streaming — where companies such as...
View ArticleFacebook users now love ads
It turns out that Facebook users love ads. It might be because Facebook has stepped up its targeted advertisements. It now has a variety of tools to keep track of what kind of ads its users might...
View ArticleAllvoices goes traveling: In San Francisco? Head to the beach
Beaches in the San Francisco Bay Area are unlike most other beaches in, say, Southern California, or Florida. Northern California beaches are often smaller, colder and more hidden, but the atmosphere...
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