Mobile applications are commanding more attention on smartphones than the web, highlighting the need for strong app stores on handset platforms. For the first time since Flurry, a mobile analytics firm, has been reporting engagement time of apps and web on smartphones, software is used on average for 81 minutes per day vs. 74...
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Location based social network Foursquare celebrated 10 million registered users yesterday but how are businesses and organizations using the platform? I wrote a year ago next month about the incredible potential offered by Foursquare accounts for organizations: following a Foursquare page as a user is like opting-in to view the world through the lens...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Today Google announced a new tool for Apps Script, the scripting language for...
Updated. Hulu has been approached by a potential buyer and is now contemplating whether it should sell, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday afternoon. The paper reported that Hulu’s board is now considering whether it should enter negotiations or solicit bids from other prospective buyers. There’s no word yet on who made the offer,...
The benefits of being on Facebook are fairly obvious by now: you can connect to friends and family and share things with them no matter where they are — and it’s all free! This quasi-public space is also owned and controlled by a corporate entity, however, and it has its own views about what...
Shopkick, a location-based deals and rewards shopping app, is going local, offering merchants free hardware that integrates with its loyalty service. In a deal with Shopkick investor Citi, the company is offering free installation of Shopkick signal boxes at 1,000 stores owned by local merchants. The deal represents a turn for Shopkick, which has...
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The publishing and bookseller world as a whole has seen substantial shake-up over the last few years: the rise of the e-book, the collapse of Borders, for example. And the world’s largest bookseller Barnes Noble has received its own fair share of mixed reviews lately as well. On one hand, the company announced last...
Movile’s future-facing project Zeewe announced today the availability of its new FriendZee API, which makes it easy for web app developers to add leaderboards and social features to their mobile web apps. It’s like OpenFeint (acquired this Spring by Japanese gaming company GREE for $100m), but for all kinds of apps beyond games and...