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BII REPORT: How Location-Based Services Are Transforming The Mobile Industry
The possibilities for location-based services on mobile go beyond consumer-facing apps like FourSquare and Shopkick.With over 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones, location data has begun to permeate...
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How To Make A Million Dollars An Hour
While researching, "How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds get away with siphoning off America's Wealth" (Wiley 2013), I stumbled upon these stunning factoids:In 2009, David Tepper, the...
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Hey Brands: Score A Free Ticket And Learn How To Get ROI From Facebook,...
Businesses that want to know how to measure their social media impact just got lucky.Business Insider is giving away five tickets to Social Media ROI, the third-annual conference on measuring and...
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Sorry, Google, I Don't Want To Talk To My Glasses
I got to try on some Google Glass(es) the other day!Very cool.The time just hangs there in front of you, as though it's projected on a windshield. It's also cool to be able to take pictures of what...
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Twitter Is Getting Into The Music Business
Twitter is entering the music business, CNET's Casey Newton reports.Twitter quietly acquired music-discovery startup We Are Hunted last year, according to CNET. Since the acquisition, Twitter has been...
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An Interview With The Man Who Is Trying To Bring Big, Native Ads To Mobile
Mobile advertising has an image problem: Its many critics say the industry is addicted to ugly banner ads that annoy consumers. A new crop of companies that we lumped together as "the natives" in our...
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Amazon Slashes Prices On Its Kindle Fire HD Tablets (AMZN)
Amazon has marked down the price on its 8.9" Kindle Fire HD tablets.The 16 GB and 32 GB WiFi models are now $269 and $299 respectively.If you want 4G LTE service, the 32 GB and 64 GB models are $399...
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Android's Growth Finally Slows Down (GOOG, AAPL)
After years of unbelievable growth, it looks like Android is finally slowing down.Today, Google CEO Larry Page announced 750 million Android devices have been activated. The last time Google put out an...
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Now Facebook Is Revamping Its Profile Pages, Too (FB)
Facebook is changing the look of its profile pages—the design it calls Timeline.When Facebook introduced Timeline in 2011, the two-column layout was a major visual change from the previous look.Now...
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Some Of The Smartest People In Business Were Pleading With Andrew Mason Not...
Now that Andrew Mason is out at Groupon, it's time to perform an autopsy.What went wrong?It appears the answer is that it was all too much, too soon. Ben Popper at The Verge reports Groupon's top...
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LinkedIn Paid An Employee $3,000 To Go Scuba Diving (LNKD)
We're used to hearing about tech-company perks—but LinkedIn just took things to the next level.For example, the company paid Joe Roualdes, a senior corporate-communications manager, $3,000 to teach...
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Samsung's Advertising For The Galaxy S4 Has Been Weirdly — Deliberately? —...
When Samsung unveils its new Galaxy S4 phone on March 14 it will be one of the biggest product launches of the year — in any category, not just tech.So why has the company preceded this huge launch...
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Apple's Dominance In The Tablet Market Is Ending
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.Apple's...
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BlackBerry Says It Just Sold 1 Million New Phones In One Order (BBRY)
BlackBerry announced today that it's sold 1 million phones running its new BlackBerry 10 operating system to one of its "established partners."It didn't name the company that made the order, but did...
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Facebook Built A $300 Million Mobile Business — Find Out How At IGNITION Mobile
A little over a year ago, Facebook's mobile ad business barely existed. But in January 2013, CEO Mark Zuckerberg described Facebook as a "mobile company" and announced that its mobile ad business...
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BII REPORT: How Samsung's Rise Is Reshaping The Mobile Ecosystem
On March 14, Samsung will launch its much-anticipated new Galaxy smartphone. The Galaxy line has powered Samsung's rise to become the world's dominant smartphone manufacturer. It's a good time to take...
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23 Hollywood Stars Who Just Partied With A Bunch Of Tech Nerds In Texas
South by Southwest is a big interactive, music and film conference that's going on right now in Austin, Texas.Over the course of the week, more than 120,000 people are flying south to learn what the...
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REVIEW: Google's First Laptop, The Chromebook Pixel (GOOG)
Google surprised a lot of people when it announced its first-ever laptop, the Chromebook Pixel. What started as a supposedly fake device in a leaked video, wowed everyone when it turned out be a real...
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Take A Tour Of Google's New Laptop, The Chromebook Pixel (GOOG)
Google's first laptop, the Chromebook Pixel, is an impressive device. It runs Chrome OS, a desktop operating system based on the Chrome Web browser. Unlike traditional laptops, Chrome OS makes you...
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VIDEO REVIEW: Google's Chromebook Pixel (GOOG)
Google's new Chrome Book is out and we got our hands on one to see how it handles.Check out our in-depth review or just watch this quick video review below: <div>Please enable...
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