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 giant is significantly expanding its in-house design group. One executive familiar with the company said...
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 do so. Usage is building across the EU-5. Monthly smartphone viewing of TV and video...
Instagram now has 150 million monthly active users with more than 60% of them residing outside of the United States. At last tally in June, the app had 130 million monthly active users. In February, the company reached the...
In what could prove to be a stealth move to compete with the likes of LinkedIn, Facebook has added a fully discoverable “professional skills” option to its user profiles.
The subtle change, discovered by a blog called Sociobits.org, looks to...
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 driving the wrong way on a highway, resulting in the death of another man.
Matthew Cordle...
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 on hanging onto its Here business (the key to its future, in my opinion). And...
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 led by Sequoia Capital general partner Roelof Botha, who in the past had backed YouTube...
Smartphones and tablets are accounting for a greater share of total US ecommerce retail sales, according to new estimates from eMarketer. This holiday season, retail ecommerce sales are expected to rise 15.1% over the same period last year, to...
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, even with hashtags. With more than 450 million tweets created every day, finding one from,...
Research finds that between 2012 and 2013, the number of smartphone users in Thailand made a big leap, particularly in cities. Penetration more than doubled in urban Thailand from 17% to 36%. Smartphones are especially popular for web browsing...
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 up with the novel idea
One of the owners, Admir Adil, noticed his 15-year-old daughter was...
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 high-profile trial of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, the differences between China’s top two social-media services...
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 Searchmetrics also found that brands achieving high natural search rankings are taking the opportunity to...
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 have provided unique platforms for users to showcase their creative ability. While a few seconds...
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 when a celebrity retweets you. Yeah, Twitter is pretty great
But like everything — with the...
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 streaming music service.
Apple had posted five iAd-related jobs to its own job board and another...
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 the official unveiling, Yahoo pinned the first major redesign of its logo since 1995 to...
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 to garner the greatest share of outlays, with search particularly important to the digital retail...
Chip startup SuVolta has convinced Fujitsu that its low power technology is important enough for Fujitsu to use it in high volume production on one of its chips. Seven-year-old startup SuVolta announced late Tuesday that it’s scored its first...
The dance label Ministry of Sound has sued Spotify over alleged copyright infringement carried out by its users, according to a report in The Guardian.
This looks like it will be an interesting case. Obviously Spotify’s users can’t upload anything,...
