With WhatsApp selling to Facebook for $16 billion, its over-the-top communications rivals were bound to get plenty of attention. It looks Tango is the first to benefit. The video chat and messaging specialist announced late Wednesday it has closed a...
Yes it’s all very easy to mock the ageing rock-star for thinking he can enter the world of digital music entrepreneurship at the age of 68, but he may just be on to something.
PonoMusic was founded by Neil Young...
Wedding startups are a plenty, but fewer reach the milestone of a Series A round. So Raleigh, N.C.-based WedPics has something to celebrate. The company, an online and mobile platform that allows couples, the wedding party, and guests to share photos before,...
Superheroes, cliff divers, fearless reporters or pop icons—whatever you like to watch, Chromecast makes it easy to bring it from a phone, tablet or laptop to the biggest screen in your house: the TV. Since announcing Chromecast in the U.S., we’ve grown to include more of your...
Securing a job is the tough part, but scouting an open position? All it takes is a strategic scroll through your favorite social media accounts.
Sites like Twitter and Facebook can be fun and frivolous, but they're also viable business opportunities. Plumbing through accounts,...
If 15% of all Internet traffic is cat-related, then how much traffic is generated by cute animals on Instagram specifically?
Instagram can't break down the most-followed animal accounts as a certainty, but pointed us to this list of pets as being among...
Energy services and transport most boded sector. The turnover generated by IoT markets will rise from $4.8 billion in 2012 to $7.3 billion in 2017
The Internet of Things (IoT) market is rapidly growing and in this context the most interesting...
Nate Elliott, the Forrester analyst who wrote a controversial report recommending that advertisers "don’t dedicate a paid ad budget for Facebook" last October, has struck again.
This time, he says in a new blog post, a recent change Facebook made to...
Instagram is telling advertisers that early photo ads have generated great results, and that one client, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, reached 9.8 million people in the U.S. aged 18 to 35 in eight days.
Before buying Instagram ads, advertisers...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said she was going to take a more active role with advertisers in the wake of the departure of COO Henrique de Castro. Today, she did at a meeting of brand advertisers in Los Angeles.
"There's...
There’s been a lot of discussion and debate around the benefit to brands of building a presence on Facebook and Twitter. At the same time, LinkedIn has been ramping up its efforts to get brands to create content and...
If you share links on Google+, you may have noticed a small, yet positive change this week.
That's because link posts have been redesigned to include larger images, and cleaner titles. Links posted to Google+ used to include a small thumbnail...
The Chief Digital Officer Club presents the ranking of influential CDOs on social media. First come Sree Sreenivasan and Jason Hirschhorn
The Top 10 Twitter influential CDOs in the world of Chief Digital Officers. The ranking was drawn up by...
Linked-in and Google+ are the most skews toward male users. Instagram and Pinterest dominated by women.
Each social media platform has cultivated a unique identity thanks to the demographics of the people who participate in the network. Some platforms are preferred by...
An event that is about to take place will radically change road traffic safety. Starting from 2015, the first connected cars will drive on European roads, that is, vehicles that can communicate between them and with road infrastructures.
Over the...
The World Wide Web just turned 25 and it has become a huge and sprawling place, with more websites coming online all the time.
Now one U.S. senator is taking a stand against website names that end in ".sucks," he...
Some billionaires choose to spend their money on huge mansions and swanky cars. Others use their disposable income in a less flashy way.
As tech entrepreneurs have seen their companies grow and become financially successful, many have turned to art collection...
Twitter wants users to think "photo first" when they send a tweet, and there's a good reason why
Tweets that include photos or video links are retweeted at a much higher rate than those with text alone, according to new Twitter data. Tweets with...
A lot of people trying to sign in to Xbox Live, Microsoft's paid online gaming service, to play new game release "Titanfall" are not able to access the game.
Gamers trying to sign in to their accounts are being met with...
The world wide web is 25 years old. After half a century from the birth of the WWW, the new frontier is linked open data, the last offspring of Tim Berners-Lee’s invention
25 years of web, 25 years of revolution: happy birthday, Web! Today the WWW is half a century old,...
