Amazon is now offering a $2 credit to Appstore customers just for Tweeting a notice about it. In order to get the credit, you have to link your Twitter and Amazon accounts and follow @appstore on Twitter. After you do so a Tweet stating “I just got a $2 credit for Android apps from...
Today, a mere 48 hours before Facebook’s f8 Conference begins, the Wall Street Journal has launched a Facebook app called WSJ Social. According to the most credible chatter, Facebook plans to unveil a media-focused redesign at the upcoming developers’ conference, which bears the slogan “Read, Watch, Listen” – a fairly obvious clue. The WSJ...
Location-based social app Foursquare reached a new milestone last week when it logged its 1 billionth check-in. The service, which reached 10 million users in June, first launched two years ago and has since become the most popular location-based social networking tool of its kind. People use the app to “check in” to any...
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Now that Mango is a done deal from Microsoft’s perspective while phones running the software are for sale in several countries, Microsoft has turned its attention back to its mobile developer community. The company today announced a small but important tweak to its app update process rules that should assuage any discontent that had arisen...
Image: Quora Foursquare just announced a new milestone on its blog: 1 billion check-ins. The milestone comes just three months after the social location app hit 10 million users. It posted a video to show where all the checkins have happened in the world over the past week. Europe, the United States and Japan...
Just last week, foursquare passed 1billion check-ins on its service after opening up the location-based social networking platform to over 1.5 billion more people by integrating five new languages. 1 billion check-ins represents a huge metric for the company launched in 2009. To celebrate, foursquare put together a birds-eye view video of the world...
Imagine you have a web-based weather tracking service with hundreds of paying customers. Now imagine you realized those customers weren’t the ones you wanted for the long term, so you cut them off and then refocused your service aimed at a different market. For a bootstrapped startup, such a move is pretty gutsy, the...
Today brands have thousands of new channels to choose from as they direct TV dollars to online video – a billion dollar market that has proven its effectiveness in reinforcing brand awareness. Advertisers understand that campaign efficacy hinges on relevance — the alignment of the advertiser’s needs with the audience reached and the context...
Location based app Foursquare has just one billion checkins, it just announced on its blog. The app has gone from 100 million checkins in July, 2010 to 200 million in Oct 2010 to 750 million checkins in June 2011. Along with the milestone, Foursquare has launched a new version of its app now available...