Yesterday the New York Times announced a significant move when it announced plans to introduce a fully Chinese version of the prestigious newspaper’s website, with an accompanying account on Sina Weibo, a microblogging platform popularly heralded as ‘China’s Twitter’. The website went live just two hours or so ago, but already there are doubts...
Google I/O got off to an eventful start thanks to keynote delays, the pre-release of news on Google’s websites before it was announced on stage and an epic skydiving stunt. Here is a quick run-down of day one by the numbers: 400 million active Android devices worldwide. Around this time last year, there were...
Continuing our mid-year review of the top trends of 2012, in this post we look at the emergence of the Visual Web. Two of the hottest products in the first half of 2012 are the best examples of this phenomenon: Pinterest and Instagram. But one or two swallows don’t make a summer. Beautiful design...
Back in April, Path adopted the Twitter-like approach to globalising its service when it announced plans to crowdsource the translation of the private social network into 20 new languages. Now, some two months later, it has added support for seven new languages from across the world, broadening its appeal to potential new users. The service...
Korean messaging Kakao Talk has launched its own virtual currency called ‘Chocos’, taking a lead from the country’s top social network Cyworld, and its ‘acorns’ profit model. The new service is live today, following an announcement earlier this week. ‘Chocos’ are Kakao Talk’s cyber money which users can buy to pay for premium services...
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FindTheBest, the startup led by DoubleClick founder Kevin O’Connor, has built a charts comparing everything from financial advisors to dog breeds to smartphones. And now that those charts can be embedded in blog posts, you might start seeing them a lot more often. O’Connor’s aim, as he’s explained to me in the past, is...
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Yesterday the WSJ outlined how Yahoo’s new, interim CEO Ross Levinsohn is taking the company back to its earlier roots of focusing on advertising around its media properties. The last 24 hours indicates that Yahoo is trying to move fast on that idea. Today the company announced three executive media hires, and TechCrunch has had...