CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook's Steadily Growing Mobile Ad Business (FB)
A year ago Facebook was going public.At the time, one of the biggest worries about the company was its ability to handle the transition from the desktop to mobile. After all, it hadn't generated a dime...
View ArticleFacebookâs Chief Accounting Officer David Spillane Is Leaving (FB)
Facebook's Chief Accounting Officer David Spillane is out the door as of May 10, Facebook reported today in documents filed to the SEC.He'll be replaced by Jas Athwal.Spillane made news in November...
View ArticleThis Chart Shows Just How Effective Facebook's Mobile App Install Ads Are
Last month, Facebook beefed up its mobile app install ads.While early data showed high performance numbers, much to marketers' delight, we now have hard numbers on how it performed from December 2012...
View ArticleLenovo Balks Then Walks Away From Buying IBM's Server Business, Sources Say...
Talks have broken down between IBM and Lenovo for a multi-billion sale of a good chunk of IBM's server business, Fortune's Miguel Helft reports.The two couldn't agree on a fair price. Neither company...
View ArticleSomeone In The Trump SoHo Is Selling His Condo, And He'll Only Accept Bitcoin
Here's more evidence Bitcoin isn't going anywhere.We've found a guy who claims to be putting his Trump Soho condo up for sale. And he will only take payment in Bitcoin.Later today, he will advertise...
View ArticleTaco Bell Just Snapchatted A Bunch Of Customers
Taco Bell has become the first major brand to venture into the latest social media darling: Snapchat.Yesterday the fast food chain tweeted that fans should follow it on the app, which allows people to...
View ArticleFUN FACT: Business Insider Is Now Bigger Than Yahoo Was When It Went Public
In case you want a vivid example of how the Wall Street and tech worlds have changed in the past couple of decades...Business Insider is now a much bigger company than 1990s Internet behemoth Yahoo,...
View ArticleHere's The New iPhone Game Everyone's Going Nuts Over Right Now (AAPL)
It's called Dots, a simple puzzle game loosely modeled on the popular game Bejeweled, which has been around since the days of regular feature phones with color screens.But Dots builds on that concept...
View ArticleHotmail Is Really, Officially Dead As Of Today (MSFT)
Hotmail, a mainstay of email and internet communication, is no more.As of today, every single Hotmail account has been migrated to Outlook.com, Microsoft's newer and redesigned email experience.Your...
View Article50 Women Who Are Changing The World
Women are having a bigger impact on our world than ever.In the past year, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg pushed feminism back into the center of the national discourse.In Afghanistan, a country where...
View ArticleGET HIRED: How To Make Your LinkedIn Profile Gorgeous With Graphics (LNKD)
LinkedIn just added a great new feature to its site: the ability to add all sorts of multi-media to your profile page, including photos, videos, audio, presentations and other documents.It calls this...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Inside The Mobile Real-Time Bidding Ad Ecosystem
Real-time bidding, or RTB, is a style of programmatic buying in which digital advertising opportunities are auctioned off in real-time. The auctions take place in milliseconds as advertisers bid on the...
View ArticleTesla Is Planning ANOTHER Big Announcement For Tomorrow
Tesla Motors will announce news tomorrow that will "up the ante" and "fix some mistakes," CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter today.It will be the third time in a month the electric car company comes out...
View ArticleSega Sued Because Scenes In Ads For Video Game Weren't Identical To Actual Game
Video game makers Sega and Gearbox Software are being sued for allegedly falsely advertising the graphics of a new game, Aliens: Colonial Marines. The lawsuit was filed on Monday in California by law...
View ArticleHow Amazon Is Trying To Create A Huge Mobile Business (AMZN)
U.S. mobile commerce is exploding. Amazon, as a leading ecommerce site, is set to grab a big chunk of that.But when it comes to mobile, Amazon's ambitions are anything but limited to ecommerce. Recent...
View ArticleInside The Swanky, Invitation-Only Loft Where Lucky New Yorkers Are Picking...
Google Glass is the next wave of wearable computing, and it isn't easy to come by. Only a few hundred people have been selected by Google to purchase the product early. The product currently retails...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg's Big Lobbying Group Accused Of 'Effectively Bribing...
Mark Zuckerberg's new lobbying group FWD.us is getting blasted by Josh Miller, founder of Branch, an online discussion startup.After meeting with the president of Zuckerberg's lobbying group, Miller...
View ArticleLinkedIn Crashes After Giving Bad Guidance In Its Earnings Report (LNKD)
LinkedInearnings are out!The market reaction is not good. The stock is plunging, falling 11% after hours.While it delivered beats on the top and bottom line, its guidance for next quarter is lighter...
View ArticleThis Powerful Spy Software Is Being Abused By Governments Around The World
A new report presents overwhelming evidence that sophisticated spying software is being abused by governments around the world.The findings by The Citizen Lab, a digital research laboratory at the...
View ArticleInstagram Has A New Tagging Feature It Believes Will Be Huge For Brands
Today Instagram introduced 'Photos of You,' a new way for users to tag people, businesses, and products in photos.The feature seems similar to "tagging" Facebook photos. And it presents a new...
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