Groupon may be struggling to get its IPO out the door, but that is not stopping it from introducing new products. Up until now, Groupon has built a billion-dollar business by getting local merchants to offer great one-time deals to consumers. Those daily deals are all about attracting new customers. Now the company is...
Back in May, we reported that Facebook now accounts for one out of three ad impressions in the U.S., and that, really, no other web property in the U.S. comes close (Yahoo was second with 10 percent). That means that Facebook served approximately 340 billion ads in the first quarter. It’s probably not a...
Hackers will have fun building Adobe AIR apps for mobile devices that incorporate Near Field Communication (NFC) sensors, now that AIR version 3.0 enables software access to hardware data including vibration control, magnetometers, light sensors and NFC. The API is likely to lead to some really fun capabilities. Imagine all the accessibility and beauty...
According to a TUAW report, there is a source sharing information that Apple may no longer be manufacturing the iPod classic and shuffle as early as this year. This could make way for a full on push of the iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone as the core Apple mobile products. The iPod classic was...
Image: Flickr See Also: MOG And Samsung Offer Up Unlimited Music Through Your Home Theater Speakers iPhone 5 Event Invites Are Out! Announcement Will Be October 4 Apple Is Quietly Disintermediating Google In Mobile Search In addition to unveiling the iPhone 5 at its big press event October 4, Apple may also announce it...
As e-books continue to grow in popularity, there’s a seemingly unwinnable debate over which is better: digital books or their paper-based counterparts. Both have their advantages and it’ll likely be quite awhile before paper books come close to disappearing. In addition all of the benefits that e-books bring, is it possible that they may...
Developers can be difficult to come by, which is why more and more companies are looking to build and leverage communities of app makers as a way to share expertise and skills. But not all communities are created equal: At GigaOM Mobilize on Tuesday, execs with experience in the field said that to create...
Individual seed investors have been an increasingly powerful force in Silicon Valley’s startup funding landscape. But in an onstage conversation at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference in San Francisco Tuesday, two venture capital heavyweights said that while the VC industry has been shaken up by the increase of seed backers, the current environment will likely lead...
Feedly just launched version 6.0 of its free RSS reader for desktop Web browsers, Android and iOS. The app can now act as a client for your Tumblr account. You can read and reblog posts from within the colorful reader. It also sports some new curated topics, called “essentials,” ranging from “Apple” and “Data...
People have been asking to bring iPads, iPhones and Android phones to work for a few years now, but this is the year that IT departments everywhere are actually embracing it, according to panelists at Tuesday’s Mobilize 2011 panel on mobile IT. “2011 was the year mobile IT was born,” said Bob Tinker, CEO...