Ahead of the new season of its hit TV show The Walking Dead, cable network AMC has partnered with education technology company Instructure and the University of California at Irvine for an online course based on the popular television...
UK females lead males in terms of time spent on social, and UK moms spend the most time of all on social sites, research finds. Facebook and YouTube are the most popular social sites for UK moms, followed by...
Apple is planning a big event on September 10, 2013, and there has been a lot of speculation on what could be on the menu. While the exact lineup of products is subject of debate, almost everyone agrees that...
Mobile smart devices have had a profound effect on the way hotels can engage with customers, offering a multiplicity of tools and services. Customers have found mobile apps especially useful in making reservations, along with a number of other...
Interactive video ads offer engagement between viewer and advertiser. The format is relatively new but growing fast, according to a new eMarketer report, and there are best practices for how to approach this ad unit with potentially big payoff.
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Mobile commerce sales have doubled in the space of a year and now account for almost a quarter of total online sales, according to a new report.
It again highlights the growing importance of m-commerce at a time when many...
Verizon and Vodafone have finally announced a deal that’s at least three years in the making: Verizon is to pay Vodafone $130 billion for the British operator group’s 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless.
The companies’ boards have given their approval and...
Vimeo is debuting its own take of film funding at the Toronto International Film Festival this week: Film makers whose feature-length movies premiere at the festival can get a $10,000 advance if they agree to distribute their films through Vimeo On...
Microsoft and Nokia held a press conference on Tuesday morning to discuss Microsoft’s takeover of Nokia’s phone hardware and services business. Naturally, several interesting details came out about the deal and its likely impact.
The first came from Nokia’s interim CEO,...
With Twitterspirit, Twitter Gets Its Own Snapchat: A Disappearing Tweet Hack, Courtesy Of An Ex-Twitter Engineer.
Twitter is working on ways of getting more juice out of its vast trove of user content — that new “blue line” for conversation...
Ericsson has announced plans for an expansion of its research and development efforts, including those in the cloud space. On Monday, the Swedish networking giant said it would open two new R&D facilities in Sweden this year and next...
Foursquare Labs Inc. is in talks with multiple large technology companies about a potential strategic investment, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.
The social-media company, which lets users check in to show they’re visiting a location, is also...
Half of consumers in Great Britain plan travel via digital channels, according to research, with younger adults showing the greatest propensity for this activity. Google Maps UK and TripAdvisor UK were the No. 1 and 2 travel sites, respectively,...
Original short- and long-form video content from an array of providers, including Netflix and YouTube, are creating the biggest disruptions to the TV landscape since the advent of cable, according to a new eMarketer report. Many of these venues...
After years of being the auto industry’s mapmaker, Nokia on Friday announced its intention to become a much bigger technological force in the vehicle. Nokia took the wraps off of Here Auto, an embedded infotainment and connected car system,...
Facebook is proposing to clarify how it manages user data for advertisements, as part of an agreement stemming from a settlement of a class-action lawsuit.
The company, owner of the world's largest social-networking service, said today it is working to...
The web's favorite animation form returned to Facebook on Thursday, thanks to GIF search engine Giphy.
Facebook supported GIFs in "the early days," Giphy co-founder Alex Chung tells Mashable, but stopped supporting them presumably because "they didn't want to look...
Like any new service, iTunes Radio will have zero users when it launches on Wednesday. More important, one of the key platforms for Apple's highly-anticipated streaming music service, the iOS 7 mobile platform necessary to run iTunes Radio on...
In the summer of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. took the steps of the Lincoln memorial and, in front of a crowd of hundreds of thousands, delivered a speech describing his dream of a United States after racism's demise....
British fashion brand Lyle & Scott is looking for its next great leader, a new CEO. To do this, shunning traditional recruitment methods, the company is using social media predominantly, linking to a microsite to attract the right person.
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