WSJs: “All Things Digital”- Tred Brings Home Test Drives to Car Shopping, With Backing From Investors Like Chris Sacca June 19, 2013Isn't everything about the process of buying a car just... fantastic? Yeah, not so much. […]Liz Gannes
- Apple Wins $30 Million iPad Contract From L.A. Unified School District June 19, 2013A huge EDU win for Apple. […]John Paczkowski
- Remembering Michael Hastings June 19, 2013I think there’s unprecedented space now in journalism to really say things that you wouldn’t have been able to get in print, or at least a large audience for, even ten years ago. – Michael Hastings, contributing editor for Rolling Stone and reporter for BuzzFeed, in a 2012 AMA on Reddit. Hastings died in a […]Voices
- Tred Brings Home Test Drives to Car Shopping, With Backing From Investors Like Chris Sacca June 19, 2013
Category Archives: Mobile
Hidden ‘radio’ buttons discovered in Apple’s iOS 6.1
Discovered last night within a freshly jailbroken iPad: a set of buttons and code references for “radio,” a feature found in iTunes on Macs and PCs, but not on the iPad or iPhone. Making things more interesting is another button suggesting you can make purchases via the radio feature, presumably from iTunes. Continue reading
Nielsen: TV Still King In Media Consumption
Traditional TV consumption still dominates U.S. households, 6 days per month. Continue reading
Facebook Messenger Adds Voice
The company will launch an update to its Messenger app for iOS and Android on Thursday afternoon, allowing users to send short voice messages to one another inside of the application, up to a minute in length. Continue reading
Apple Unveils iPad Mini, Starting at $329
s previously reported in this Blog, the rumors are true regarding the Apple’s new ipad Mini. It is a smaller version of the company’s popular iPad tablet, with a screen that measures 7.9 inches diagonally. Continue reading
Facebook Fought SEC to Keep Mobile Risks Hidden Before IPO
Barbara Jacobs, an assistant director for corporation finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, was skepti, as she and her staff vetted the filing to ensure Facebook had disclosed all material information to investors. The claim appeared to be drawn from marketing materials, not a Nielsen study, she wrote to Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman, 42. Continue reading
Apple’s new Mini-iPad to Release Soon
Anticipated to be a pure consumption device that will rival Kindle’s Fire HD, Barnes & Noble Nook HD and Google Nexus 7; the new mini-iPad sets the stage for Apple to grab those book reading and high-speed streaming consumers Continue reading
ThinkNear’s Mobile Ads Solves HyperLocal
ThinkNear helps advertisers target mobile ads based on location and real-world context – solving hyper-local. Continue reading
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Square Processing $5 billion a year
Even with the threat of PayPal looming, Square continues to grow. The company told Bloomberg Wednesday that its annualized rate of processed transactions is now up to $5 billion, up from $4 billion a month ago. It’s unclear how much Square is actually making on all this action and if it’s even profitable, but the growth is showing that Square is executing on its bid to become a payment tool for small businesses. Continue reading
AdMob to Introduce AdWords Style Auction
Google has announced that effective today, all available AdMob cost-per-click (CPC) inventory will be entered into Google’s AdWords-style auction. Continue reading
Groupon Files for $750 Million IPO
In a followup to an earlier blog, Groupon had passed on funding from Google and Living Social had then secured $400 million from private investors. Continue reading