As tablet adoption widens, retailers and brands across an expanding spectrum of product categories, including apparel, are beginning to pay closer attention to the presence of those devices in the overall ecommerce ecosystem, according to a new eMarketer report.
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Every time a major news event happens, and reports start flying around the social media-sphere about the details of the shooting or earthquake or whatever it is, Twitter comes under fire for helping to spread inaccurate news, as it...
Facebook redesigned its Like and Share buttons last month, and the result has been a slight rise in clicks, all thanks to its international users.
Exclusive data released to Mashable Monday revealed that Facebook has seen a 5% increase in...
Looks like Amazon has acquired mobile payments startup GoPago for an undisclosed sum, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
Vincenzo Di Nicola, Italian native and GoPago's cofounder and CTO, talked to La Repubblica, as first noticed by TechCrunch's Ingrid...
Now that Instagram has rolled out its own form of private messaging, there's yet another, more way you can send that photo of your cat wearing slippers.
Staring at all of the app icons on your phone can be daunting,...
Facebook’s fifth Open Compute Summit is on the horizon for January 2014, and looking at what the social networking leader has been working on over the past year provides some clues on what to expect to be in the...
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is fighting back against a lawsuit filed by Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
Kimye was not pleased after Hurley posted video of their October marriage proposal at AT&T Park in San Francisco to his new video-sharing website, MixBit, claiming he violated...
Third-quarter ecommerce revenues in Norway approached $3.5 billion, according to research, as more customers and retailers took to digital channels. And December’s retail ecommerce sales will total more than $580 million.
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Source: eMarketer.com.
Mobile advertising continues to grow faster than expected, largely at the expense of desktop ad spending, which is flattening or declining more rapidly than previous predicted, according to new figures from eMarketer.
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Source: eMarketer.com.
There's a mountain of money at stake as online and offline video consumption shifts to smartphones and tablets.
The pay and broadcast TV industries, music labels, Hollywood studios, big tech companies, and major advertisers all have to keep a close...
Mothers with young children use smartphones more than any of their peers. As additional responsibilities pile up and their free time decreases, mothers turn to their smartphones as spare hands and entertainment outlets.
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Source: eMarketer.com.
If you’re sick of clicking on those “display images below” links in your email, you’ll probably like the change Google just initiated for Gmail.
The reason for those clicks is that until now, those images were served from third-party servers....
Cyber Monday is still a relatively new phenomenon in the UK, but research shows that is growing in popularity as a day for sales. And while ecommerce metrics shot up this year, a banking glitch on Cyber Monday may...
A “bio pen” that allows surgeons to draw layers of healing cells on damaged bones and cartilage is closer to entering clinical trials after its creators handed it over to scientists at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, for...
Once a year, the editors of TIME magazine select the one person or entity who has most affected the world stage over the past 12 months. The winner adorns the cover of the the news magazine — and this...
Twitter is the real-time soundtrack to the biggest global moments and events as they unfold in the world, and 2013 was no exception. Whether it was the Super Bowl blackout or the German election,
What happened in the world simultaneously...
George Herbert Walker Bush posted his first tweet on Tuesday, becoming the third U.S. President — and the first Republican President — to join Twitter
Bush Sr. seems to have beaten his son, George W. Bush, to the service. The...
Twitter users can now share and receive images in direct messages
Twitter unveiled the new feature in an update to versions of its iOS and Android apps on Tuesday. Users who update the app can send and receive images through...
Facebook made a big deal about the platform's impending redesign in March, but it now appears it's not actually coming to most users
A story by Mike Isaac of AllThingsD claims that the redesign has stalled, and will not actually...
One app dominating the top of the charts right now has devised a clever way to deliver important information you care about.
It's called Circle.
Available for Android and iPhone, the app is a local news network tailored towards your interests. It...
