Text messaging and text messaging revenue has fallen for the first time in the U.S., according to mobile analyst Chetan Sharma’s latest report. He tells us, “the dip in volume coincided with revenue dip as well which didn’t happen previously. Typically, when this happens, it is an indication that the peak might have been...
Lucy Jacobs / Spruce Media Spruce COO Lucy Jacobs Facebook ad buyer Spruce Media says it has secured a $15 million in “debt financing” from Square 1 Bank on the back of a $150 million billings run rate in Q3 2012. (In this case, “billings” are the client budgets that get spent on Facebook;...
Google Mars Google Mars is a spin-off of Google Earth that shows interactive maps of the Red Planet’s surface. The feature was released in 2009 as part of the free downloadable Google Earth app, but until now, most of the satellite images were low-resolution. The program received a major update this week,...
While the world continues its collective head scratching and crystal ball watching over the Sinofsky departure, how is Microsoft faring? TNW has three facts for you today that can help to answer that question. Until Microsoft decides to grace us with fresh, confirmed information, we are stuck with taking peripheral indicators to help us...
According to a report in Business Week, Microsoft’s Andy Lees, who was removed as the head of Windows Phone roughly one year ago, has been moved yet again. After a long spell working with Barnes and Noble on bringing an application to Windows 8 – which remains yet to be released – he will...
The site for ex-Apple head of OX X Bertrand Serlet’s new cloud venture UpThere has gone live. It has a link to the team page, a brief statement and not much else at the moment, but it does confirm whose money is going into it. Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Elevation Partners and Google Ventures...
Don’t think YouTube is any less serious about becoming your next favorite TV channel. Sure, it’s slashing the number of Web shows it’s funding, but that only means it’s sharpening its focus. 2013 is going to be another big year for premium-TV-style video on the Web. YouTube execs said in January they would spend...
Internet Explorer is slowly, slightly, but significantly changing the Web. Tuesday, Microsoft released a preview of IE10 running on Windows 7, as expected – the same version that’s available for the new Windows 8, but translated into the older Windows 7. At the same time, executives with Microsoft’s IE team made the case that content...
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Imagine yourself in line at the local coffee shop. You’re getting impatient because there are nearly a dozen people ahead of you before you can order your morning wake-up call. Suddenly, the line starts moving faster. It’s not that the barista has six arms; it’s that a few customers are speeding things up paying...
Square has been a darling of the startup world since launching service in 2010. Now, as the mobile payment company looks ahead to 2013, it thinks it is poised to become a household name and a global brand, bolstered by support from ubiquitous partners such as Starbucks along with millions of other smaller merchants....