Email More App revenue comes largely from in-app purchases made in free games, according to a new report from Distimo. Right now 76 percent of revenue comes from in-app purchases made in paid and free apps. That’s up from 53 percent a year ago. If you’re an app-maker, it looks like the best plan...
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AP See Also Dell Just Revealed The Details Of Its Two New Buyout Offers BETRAYAL: Michael Dell’s Former Right-Hand Man Leads Coup To Push Him Out Why Carl Icahn Is The Most Dangerous Man On Wall Street As part of a proposed transaction to take the company private, Dell has issued a 274-page proxy...
Dell’s today released a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that details why shareholders should accept, in its view, the $24.4 billion deal offered by Michael Dell, Silverlake, and partially financed by Microsoft. We reported on Microsoft’s financing assistance to the Dell buyout consortium. Microsoft will take no shares in Dell, or voting powers. However,...
Aaron Batalion, daily deals site LivingSocial’s co-founder and CTO, has announced that he is leaving the company, which has struggled to turn a profit as interest in the industry has waned. “After much soul searching, I have decided to leave LivingSocial to pursue some new ideas,” Batalion wrote on his blog. “No new adventure...
Over the last couple of days, a group of iOS developers has been targeted with a series of rapid-fire texts sent over Apple’s iMessage system. The messages, likely transmitted via the OS X Messages app using a simple AppleScript, rapidly fill up the Messages app on iOS or the Mac with text, forcing a user to...
While it has become de rigueur to ascribe all sorts of supernatural powers to Big Data, one of the world’s most celebrated statisticians, Nate Silver, is far more circumspect about it. If anything, according to Silver in his book The Signal and the Noise, Big Data carries the potential to cloud our decisions by introducing...
As Google tries to make Google+ a viable place to learn about local businesses, it seems to be having trouble getting enough reviews of local businesses. At least in New York City, anyway. Google+ Local Needs Reviews? That’s the only explanation I could come up with for the awkward, uncomfortable and bizarre Google+ Lounge...
If the rumors are true — and given Facebook’s management of the press, I suspect they are — then by next week the world will finally have its “Facebook Phone.” Whoopee. A device, and possibly an entire operating system, that’s almost wholly unnecessary and likely to benefit pretty much no one — neither Facebook...
The literary world gasped on Thursday when Amazon announced it had acquired Goodreads, a popular social networks that lets book lovers connect and share reviews with one another. The deal gives Amazon control of an influential literary taste-maker and provides it with access to a wealth of new book data — a development that...