Image: Pete Souza via Wikimedia Newt Gingrich’s 1.3 million Twitter followers are mostly fake, says social media analytics startup PeekYou. If you’re just tuning in, here’s what’s going on. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich bragged about how he has way more Twitter followers than any other candidate. Gawker wrote a report saying that most...
South Korea’s telecom regulator has imposed a 3 million won ($2,829) fine on Apple after it judged the iPhone maker to be collecting location data from users’ handsets without authorisation, Yonhap News reports. Apple voilated Korean location information laws and was ordered to pay the fine by the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), which has...
This isn’t the first time that Mike Matas has been hired through acquisition, either. In 2005, Apple acquired his startup hired him away from his startup Delicious Monster. He was 19 years old at the time. That company built a media organizing tool called Delicious Library. Update: Turns out I was wrong about that....
Facebook may have droves of publishers, brands, celebrities, and other major entities using Facebook Pages, but its internal analytics product — Insights — still leaves a lot to be desired. Now Y Combinator-funded startup PageLever wants to give Pages with a large number of fans (over 10,000) tools that can help them better figure out exactly...
Twitter is killing “Old Twitter” this week–the way Twitter.com used to look before they rolled out their #newtwitter redesign, which shows images and videos within tweets in a right-hand pane. Which brings to mind the question–does anyone still use Old Twitter? Do you? Please vote below, and enjoy this nice video Twitter made to...
Nothing says “We’re really excited about these new products!” like announcing them at two in the morning. With fanfare that only insomniacs and folks getting ready for bed in Australia will hear, ATT has just announced the next three BlackBerry devices set to hit their shelves: the Torch 4G 9810 (a follow-up to last...
The interest in Google Plus is somewhat surprising, considering that the social network’s age is still measured in weeks, not months. But, according to Appcelerator’s VP of Marketing, Scott Schwarzhoff, developers often take the long view when considering new services such as this, thinking 12, 16 or 18 months out into the future. For...
At the same time, the percentage of those who said in-app purchasing was a major factor in their moneymaking strategy inched up slightly from 42 percent to 43 percent. While that change is pretty negligible right now, looking ahead to next year, 50 percent of those surveyed say in-app purchasing will be the most...