Not content with just outmaneuvering Apple, Samsung’s sights are now set on a new competition — Blackberry. In a report by the NY Times, Samsung, which has sold the highest number of smartphones global-wide over the past year, has invested in new features on their Android software to make it highly secure for businesses. It [...]
In the face of steadily dwindling share prices, Apple shareholders are getting antsier by the minute. These investors have been prodding CEO Tim Cook to compensate them for the falling shares, especially now that Samsung and Google are among the elite brand’s fiercest competitors. According to Bloomberg, Apple’s investors are clamoring for bigger dividends and [...]
Foursquare has pinpointed more ways for the company to generate revenue from its check-in deals service by partnering with Visa and MasterCard, in addition to its existing partnership with American Express, which began some two years ago with the initial objective of getting the then-little-known location-based app get noticed. However, a few changes have taken [...]
Digital music sales worldwide have had to deal with a few bumps over the past decade, but the latest Digital Music Report of IFPI or the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry showed significant growth for the digital music industry for 2012. According to the recently published Digital Music Report 2013, music revenues recorded globally [...]
A new mobile app publication tool has got its fair share of attention recently at the Mobile World Congress, according to a report published at TheNextWeb. AppMachine, a two year old start-up by entrepreneur and founder CEO Siebrand Dijkstra launched at the said Congress, is described by TNW’s Zee as one of the best-featured products [...]
There’s more to blogging revenue than just ads, and one wildly successful blogger has proven this point well enough. Blogger Andrew Sullivan has already pulled in a total of $611,000 since his blog, The Dish, went independent from The Daily Beast beginning early January this year, reports Mashable. Instead of his blog making money through [...]
In a blog post published yesterday, Mozilla has announced that their Firefox OS platform for mobile will be partnering with 18 operators, including Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia Group, and others. The update was announced during the Mobile World Congress 20013 held in Barcelona, with the Firefox OS highlighted as the mobile platform that will work [...]
Facebook has already faced many troubles in the past concerning issues on privacy, and now that Graph Search is set to be launched for the bigger Facebook population, it’s possible not everyone is jumping up and down with excitement. This is because Graph Search can potentially be more invasive than any other feature introduced by [...]
Hashtags, which started in Twitter but are now applicable across other social networks such as Facebook, is characterized by the (#) sign and is used primarily to categorize and narrow down social media marketing messages. Once employed the right way, hashtags are great way to involve your followers, talk about an upcoming event, and promote [...]
Small business owners may have to start small, but a few social media marketing tricks can result in a massive following for their respective brands. According to an article posted by Mashable on American Express Open Forum, there are three strategies in social media marketing that really stand out. In fact, many of the top-name [...]
In a recent post over at Yahoo!’s blog, CEO Marissa Mayer has welcomed users into the new and more personalized Yahoo! web portal and search site, with several changes that extend from newsfeeds to apps. The new Yahoo!, according to Mayer, has been customized to better fit users’ interests and search requirements making the site [...]
The long wait for the latest console from Playstation is finally over as they have unveiled the Playstation 4 during the Playstation Meeting 2013 in New York on Wednesday. Not to be released until this year’s holidays, the Playstation 4 promises to deliver immensely powerful and smart gameplay characterized not only by impressive graphics and [...]
The rationale behind the creation of Google Glass is hands-free Internet browsing and computing, with everything on the Web accessible within the wearer’s immediate line of sight. And while this seems cool and even practical enough, the trouble with Google Glass is that its earlier versions had been too conspicuous an unusual thing to be [...]
Facebook is one of the most ubiquitous social networks around, along with Twitter, and at some point it’s going to encroach into other people’s emotions and leave either a positive or a negative impact. The influence of the social network is so pervasive that, according to Mashable, Facebook has the ability to make people feel [...]
All these years Apple has ruled Silicon Valley where its brightest minds work in a six-building main campus that houses labs, offices, a conference center, and its own Apple Company Store. In contrast, Samsung’s Silicon Valley headquarters, with its semiconductor and venture capital offices and R&D laboratory, are rather nondescript and not much of a [...]
The much-anticipated HTC One has been spotted by tech journalists about an hour before it was officially unveiled, but now that it has been formally launched, TheNextWeb has posted an in-depth review about the new HTC mobile device, expected by the company to turn its dwindling profitability around and into a more promising direction. After [...]
Facebook’s expansion in Europe is in full swing as it is set to make available 100 additional jobs in Dublin, Ireland, in addition to the 400-people team that the social network has already stationed in the country. According to Irish news company RTÉ, this recent expansion will bring the total of the Facebook workforce in [...]
CNN has just published a highly interesting story by Business Insider Steve Kovach about why Samsung, in terms of innovation, is outsmarting Apple. While Apple deserves all the world’s credit for introducing impressive and sophisticated mobile devices, it appears to have already been outrun by many of its competitors in the rat race of smartphone [...]
To the rest of the world, the fax machine used to be a communication device relied on by businesses and private homeowners before personal computers and the Internet revolutionized communication in more ways than one. But in Japan, a country known for its sophisticated technologies and scientific inventions, the fax has remained a staple in [...]
A few hours before an asteroid with the frightening size of a football field quietly passed Earth at a safe distance of 17,150 miles, a significantly smaller but highly damaging meteorite exploded over the Ural Mountains in Russia on Friday. While it’s easy to speculate on the connection between these two solar system bodies, scientists [...]