Your smartphone could be encouraging you to cheat.
A survey conducted in November by affairs and dating site Victoria Milan revealed that 45% of people have either cheated — or contemplated cheating — on their partner because the other person...
United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron and a retinue of more than 100 business representatives — the largest-ever British trade delegation to go to China — descended on Beijing Monday. Cameron met with Chinese premier Li Keqiang, discussing a...
Facebook updated its News Feed algorithm yet again, this time with the hope of presenting users with more "high quality content" like news articles and current events
The updated algorithm means that users can expect more news and story links...
In the dystopian novel The Circle, Google and Facebook have merged with other big tech companies to create a single, all-seeing and all-knowing social network. The work is fiction but a new patent application published last week makes the...
Amazon is experimenting with drones that will deliver packages within 30 minutes. CEO Jeff Bezos made the announcement in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night with Charlie Rose.
Bezos expects the drones to be fully autonomous and in operation within four...
One-Liner Pitch: Sanctri is a Facebook app for creating memorial pages for loved ones who have passed away.
Why It's Taking Off: Facebook doesn't offer specific tools to mourn, but with our digitally intertwined lives there is a need for...
Advertising on Instagram has quickly moved from a novelty to a near-daily occurence, and they're churning up a tsunami of "likes" as well as a dose of aggrieved user comments.
General Electric, Levi's, Lexus and Ben & Jerry's have now...
It isn't easy to hold onto the title of most-followed user on Twitter. Since Ashton Kutcher's famous race with CNN to be the first account with 1 million followers in April 2009, that crown has been passed to four...
Despite increased competition from IBM with its new SoftLayer franchise and other players, Amazon Web Services continues to lead the combined pack in cloud revenue, according to new Synergy Research Group numbers. The figures, which combine Infrastructure as a Service and...
As Brazil's internet market continues to expands digital media is making its way into more of consumers lives—but not to the detriment of traditional media consumption. In fact, digital and traditional media now play a mutually reinforcing role in...
Streaming site Pandora has quietly given up its campaign to get Congress to pass the Internet Radio Fairness Act, a law that would have put online radio services on a more equal footing with AM/FM and satellite stations when...
Live chat has the highest satisfaction levels for any customer service channel, with 73%, compared with 61% for email and 44% for phone.
I can see why as live chat combines the best of phone and email, and avoids the...
A new eMarketer forecast predicts higher-than-expected spending totals for US real-time bidding digital display advertising this year, with solid growth expected for the next several years. By 2017, advertisers will spend more than $9 billion on RTB.
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This weekend, Business Insider wrote a long, detailed piece covering all the ways cable is losing subscribers and television advertising dollars are poised to move to digital media.
A recent analyst note from Macquarie Capital should also be worrisome for...
It’s no secret that teenagers love digital devices. But research shows particularly fast growth in smartphone and tablet penetration among this group over the past year. Teens are engaged in a wide variety of online activities, although a surprising...
Pinterest added a new type of pin called Place Pins Wednesday, enabling users to map out the locations of all the items they share on their pinboards
For example, if a user pins a photo of a burger from a...
2.0 companies between the boom and the new bubble. Many mentors, scarce capital and the need to rely on the “hiding hand”. Difficulties and possibilities make the glass half full
“Everyone asks for me, everyone wants me”. I’m not thinking about Rossini’s Figaro, but rather about start-ups....
It’s late November, so we’re comfortably past the point where people are no longer agitated that ‘best of the year’ lists are starting to appear already.
In fact I’ve already got my 'Best Korean Pop Albums' and 'Favourite Men’s Health...
Who says Hondas have no soul?
Tired of hearing their reliable cars dismissed as rolling appliances, Honda and ad agency RPA launched the "Start Something Special" ad campaign this summer around the idea that Honda owners form a "special" relationship...
As the market for broadband connectivity, wireline and wireless services becomes saturated, US telecom carriers, cable TV operators and internet service providers are using online and mobile channels to promote new technology, faster networks, superior video quality and more...
