Year-over-year ad investments in the US restaurant industry slowed in Q3 2013, dipping by 3.6 to 1.58 billion. But the sector’s growth through the first nine months of 2013 was ahead of that seen in overall ad spending. As...
Consumers are focusing an ever-increasing amount of daily actions around mobile, and checking email is becoming one of the most popular activities conducted on such devices. Mobile email open rates dominated those on desktop and webmail in December 2013,...
While blockbuster titles like "Call of Duty" and "Grand Theft Auto" get all the press, the rise of relatively open software stores on PCs, consoles, tablets, and smartphones has allowed for a major increase in the viability of games...
According to YouGov's BrandIndex here are the top 10 UK brands of 2013.
This is based on brand perception, acquired by conducting approximately 3,700 daily interviews and asking the question "If you've heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks...
Twitter is rolling out a new homepage for the platform's desktop users
The new layout and design is meant to resemble the company's mobile versions, complete with each user's cover photo aligned behind his profile image to add a more visual...
When it comes to how Internet companies protect people when the government asks for data, Twitter wins.
So finds a new report from privacy watchdog group Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The EFF examined how Internet companies responded to government data requests by looking...
Russian web giant Yandex has struck a deal with Facebook that will see it index publicly posted content on the social network that comes from the countries Yandex covers – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey.
This “firehose” deal is...
The US consumer electronics industry revenues will rise 2,4 this year to hit an all-time high of 208 billion, according to recent figures. New, emerging products will fuel this increase, but shipments of smartphone and tablet units will continue...
When Theresa split from her partner of several years, they began the painful process of separating their lives, notifying friends as they divided the dishes and furniture. They confronted the dozens of Facebook vacation photos, the Instagrams of Sunday morning brunch, the tweets and...
The popular Dropbox cloud storage and file sharing site went down Friday night with some issues lingering into Saturday. The San Francisco company acknowledged the service disruption on its tech blog, but disputed claims that it was taken down by hackers and...
QR codes have been called many names. Ugly. Has-been. A failure. Marketing expert Scott Stratten even has a book out called "QR Codes Kill Kittens."
But not so fast: In China, those checkerboard-like codes are enjoying a renaissance.
That's thanks to...
In France, consumers with smartphones and tablets buy online more often than those without mobiles devices, and more than one-third of those users look for product information on their phones at least once a week, according to research.
Join the...
Yahoo has a plan to restructure the way you watch TV. And it may not involve cable TV companies.
Already, TV makers Samsung and Vizio have signed on as partners.
At CES, the electronics conference in Las Vegas this week, CEO...
People are becoming more aware of the data being collected about them online. And that's eroding the trust they have with collecting companies, such as Facebook, Twitter and Google.
Asked which companies are the greatest threat to the future of...
If you want to purchase a Sponsored Story on Facebook, you'd better do it fast
The social network will retire Sponsored Story advertisements beginning April 9, according to a blog post
Sponsored stories show when a user's Facebook friend interacts with a sponsored...
Affluent consumers in the 5/6 socioeconomic levels are by far the most likely to buy digitally in Colombia (85%). When broken down by age, more than half of internet users ages 25 to 55 are digital buyers. Electronic and...
Google may be getting ready to add Chromecast support to its Google+ mobile apps: A resourceful Google+ user has found Chromecast icons in the latest version of the Google+ Android app, suggesting that the app could soon be used to cast...
Many device makers are showing off smart watches this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show. But after CES, Chinese hardware manufacturer Huawei will unveil an even smaller wearable device.
Huawei will announce a smart ring and smart watch at...
Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter, says that it’s easy enough for consumers to opt out of tailored ads on Twitter, but he does not know how many actually go through the process of doing so. “You can opt out...
Alan Mulally has officially confirmed what the world suspected. He's not leaving Ford to become Microsoft's next CEO.
He has promised to stay on with Ford until at least 2014, reports the AP.
The odds that he planned to leave Ford for...
