Ever wondered which musician has the fastest growing Facebook Page? Or what TV series? A new beta service called SocialMedia-live is tracking the growth rate of 38 million Facebook Pages, with 2 million of those available to view. It has statistics on total number of likes, fan growth, interesting newcomers and male/female breakdown. These...
I saw several quad-core tablets at the Consumer Electronics show, but no smartphones. Luckily, Sascha Pallenberg, my friend who runs the Netbook News site, captured video of a Fujitsu handset running on the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. From the looks of it, this phone’s performance will rival that of the Asus Transformer Prime tablet....
It appears that Zappos was the victim of a cyber attack today from a hacker who gained access to the company’s internal network through the company’s servers in Kentucky. While specifics of the attack were not revealed, Zappos says that credit card and payments data were not accessed or affected by the criminal. CEO...
Editor’s note: Guest contributor Joseph Puopolo is an entrepreneur and start-up enthusiast, who blogs on a variety of topics including green initiatives, technology and marketing. In 2011, social media had its share of growing pains. Large brands and corporations took to social media in force to try to find footing in this expanding medium....
As the Middle Eastern underground music scene continues to gain ground, we’re beginning to see more apps and sites that are supporting and showcasing these musicians. We’ve already told you about the Lebanon-based site, Sawt, which puts the latest Arabic Indie songs at your fingers, with an extremely easy-to-use interface. If you want something a...
CES 2012 has come and gone, and it’s time for the inevitable summary and think pieces on the directions the industry is heading, the highlights of the show, and so on. We’ll also be posting some interviews and highlights from our live coverage this week, but before that it is, of course, necessary to...
The online movie and TV show streaming service Hulu unveiled its original programming line-up for the first half of 2012 at the Television Critics’ Association (TCA) Winter Press Tour today. Besides renewing Morgan Spurlock’s ‘A Day in the Life‘ for a second season and commissioning a documentary series titled ‘Up to Speed’ from the...
New figures released by the BBC today reveal that the increasing ubiquity of Web-enabled TVs, smartphones and tablets are driving the popularity of iPlayer, its flagship online catchup TV and radio service. In 2011, 1.94 billion TV and radio programme requests were made on iPlayer across all platforms in the UK, its highest number...
Update: It seems that Scotland has now been removed from eBay. Scotland may be edging ever closer to the independence referendum that could see its status as one of the UK’s four constituent countries turned on its head, but that hasn’t stopped one prankster from jumping the gun by putting the country up for...
mrmatt on flickr Rocking out at SXSW Larry Chiang Larry Chiang Larry Chiang is a VC and teaches entrepreneurship to Stanford engineering students. Recent Posts I wanted to call this article “Launch and Get Paid at SXSW” but that seems preposterous, outlandish, over-the-top and obnoxious. It flies in the face of traditional thinking where...