According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, developer support for Android has been waning despite its incredible growth. Flurry tracks the activity of 45,000 developers who have built 90,000 different applications. Every time a developer starts a new project, Flurry knows which platform the developer is working on. As you can see below, developers started...
Google has just submitted an update for the Google+ Android application, bringing with it a revised UI, stream customizations and a number of important bugfixes. Posting to his Google+ profile, Google Community Manager Paul Wilcox notified his followers of the update, noting that Google+ version 1.0.2 had been pushed to the Android Market and...
Today, during Google’s Q2 Earnings call, Google CEO Larry Page talked about the various successes of its products. One of the most interesting of these that he shared was the fact that there are now 550,000 Android phones being activated every day. If these numbers stay constant throughout the rest of the year, Google...
Spotify has finally arrived in the U.S., the company announced this morning. But the full rollout is still underway. Interested customers are being asked to sign up for an invite on the company’s homepage, if they haven’t already done so. But regular (and fast!) ReadWriteWeb readers wanting to cut in line can get their...
Analytics firm Flurry has analyzed trends on its network of 45,000 companies and 90,000 apps to determine where developers are investing their RD budgets this year. In a comparison of Q1 2011 and Q2 2011, you can see that the Android project starts have dropped from 36% to 28% while those on iOS have...
Linear TV makes up the bulk of video ad dollars today, with about $160 billion worldwide being spent on broadcast advertising, compared to just $5.4 billion in IP-delivered video. But a rapidly growing number of connected devices will soon disrupt what we think of as TV advertising, by combining TV-sized reach with all the...
Amid all the coverage of Google’s launch of its fast-growing Google+ social network, some — including New York Times technology writer David Pogue, in his recent review of the service — have argued that the new platform improves on Facebook in terms of privacy protections, because it allows you to filter your friends into groups...
After 25 years of evaluating tech startups and watching more pitches than almost anyone else on earth, Guidewire Group’s Chris Shipley says we are definitely in a bubble right now. Specifically, we’re in a lean startup bubble: an inflated economy of startups serving startups, filled with dangerous myths and sure to come crashing down,...
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Why did Netflix raise its prices by 60 percent yesterday? Reed Hastings’ company says it’s a cost issue. If people are going to use both his DVD-by-mail service and his Web video streaming service, he’ll need more money to support both businesses. That’s probably true. Here’s what’s more true: Reed Hastings doesn’t want most...