Raffaele Cirullo
Apple Plans Major Expansion of Its In-House Design Team
Apple is looking for a few good creatives.
Longtime observers say after years of capping the size and type of internal creative talent, the tech...
EU-5 Smartphone Users Watch More Video on Their Handsets
More than one-third of smartphone users in the EU-5 watch video on their devices, according to research, with users in Spain most likely to...
Instagram Reaches 150 Million Monthly Active Users
Instagram now has 150 million monthly active users with more than 60% of them residing outside of the United States. At last tally in...
Facebook Adds Professional Skills Category for Job Seekers
In what could prove to be a stealth move to compete with the likes of LinkedIn, Facebook has added a fully discoverable “professional skills”...
“I Killed a Man”: A YouTube Confession for a Drunken Car...
In a YouTube video posted this week, a 22-year-old confessed that he was drunk when he crashed his pickup truck into another car while...
Behind the scenes at the Microsoft-Nokia negotiations
The NYT has published an interesting piece about the negotiations leading up to Microsoft’s takeover of Nokia’s handset business. Of particular note: Nokia’s insistence...
Whisper, a private social platform, gets $21 million from Sequoia Capital
Whisper, a Los Angeles-based secret sharing/anonymity social social platform today announced that it had raised $21 million in new funds from a group of venture capitalists...
Mobile Devices to Boost US Holiday Ecommerce Sales Growth
Smartphones and tablets are accounting for a greater share of total US ecommerce retail sales, according to new estimates from eMarketer. This holiday season,...
You Can Now Search for Any Tweet in History
Twitter is great for real-time news and updates, but searching through your history for tweets on a specific topic — that's much less efficient,...
Smartphones Take Off in Urban Thailand
Research finds that between 2012 and 2013, the number of smartphone users in Thailand made a big leap, particularly in cities. Penetration more than...
Facebook-Flavored Ice Cream Is a Real Thing
Can you imagine tasting a social network? Two enterprising ice cream makers at Valentino Ice Cream Shop in Tisno, on Croatia’s Murter island, came...
China’s Rival Social Networks: Weixin vs. Weibo
Even as they compete for market share, Sina’s Weibo and Tencent’s Weixin have evolved to fill very distinct user niches. Last week, amid the...
Travel aggregator sites dominate airline brands in Google results
Travel aggregator sites dominate airline brands for both natural and paid Google rankings, according to a new report looking at search visibility.
The analysis by...
How to Add Special Effects to Vine and Instagram Videos
Anyone can become "Instafamous" by adding a filter or a few hashtags to a cool selfie. The real pros live on video.
Vine and Instagram...
11 Twitter Apps You’ll Use Every Day
We love Twitter, we really do. The ever-changing feed. The challenge of squeezing a message into 140 characters. The feeling of accomplishment you get...
Apple Hiring for iAd Team as iTunes Radio Launch Approaches
Apple is on a hiring binge as it scales its iAd team in anticipation of its Sep. 10., release of iTunes radio, its ad-supported...
How Yahoo Picked a New Look For An 18-Year-Old Brand
Yahoo has refreshed its 18-year-old logo to match the nearly two-decade-old portal's ongoing makeover under CEO Marissa Mayer.
Capping a thirty-day campaign leading up to...
Retail Industry Remains the Largest Spender in US Digital Advertising
A new eMarketer report finds that retail will continue to lead all other US industries in dollars devoted to digital advertising. Direct-response spending continues...
Fujitsu starts pumping out chips with SuVolta’s low power tech
Chip startup SuVolta has convinced Fujitsu that its low power technology is important enough for Fujitsu to use it in high volume production on...
Spotify sued by UK dance label over playlist-related copyright infringement
The dance label Ministry of Sound has sued Spotify over alleged copyright infringement carried out by its users, according to a report in The...
