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The First Ad Campaign On Facebook's Poke Is For ... Lingerie
Less than a week after Facebook released its Snapchat competitor, Poke, ad agency Grey Tel Aviv decided to test whether the app was marketing friendly by launching its first-ever ad...
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BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Here's Why Marketers Hate Mobile Advertising
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.Why...
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BII REPORT: How Mobile Is Waging Battle For The Multi-Screen Living Room
For over a decade, big tech companies, including IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, have been promising to take over the living room.But home entertainment has proved a hard business to crack, and consumers...
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QUIZ: Can You Spot The Knock-Off Handbags, Shoes, And Gadgets?
Sometimes, imitation is not the most sincere form of flattery.Thanks in large part to easy accessibility on the internet and the ever-increasing sophistication of knock-off designers, fake luxury goods...
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10 Actually Useful Things You Can Make With A 3D Printer
Remember dot matrix printers?Remember how little you missed them when you upgraded to a LaserJet?Even though we're in a "dot matrix era" of personal 3D printers, there's enough interest to know that...
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Why You Should Care About 3D Printing
The same way that personal computing became a hotbed of innovation in the early 1970s, 3D printing seems to be experiencing a similar renaissance.While 3D printers were once huge, pricey devices...
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Windows 8 Grew Less Than 1% In December, Says Net Marketshare (MSFT)
The holiday season is over and we want to know how well Windows 8 did.The first evidence is in and it shows that Windows 8 wasn't a total bomb with consumers -- some folks out there definitely bought...
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Here's One Thing You Didn't Know About Snapchat (FB)
Snapchat is continuing to take the digital world by storm, making its yellow-ghost icon a ubiquitous symbol.So who is that cute little ghost with his tongue sticking out? Well, his name is Ghostface...
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I Mounted An SLR Lens to My iPhone, And This Is What My First Few Photos Look...
A company called Turtleback sells a gizmo called a SLR Jacket – an iPhone case that allows you to mount a manual, fancy-pants camera lens to your iPhone.I just got one today. It looks like this:I used...
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Mobile-Ad Frenzy Sends Facebook Up 5% (FB)
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc., owner of the largest social-networking service, rose 5.2 percent amid optimism that the company will be able to step up sales growth from advertising shown to users...
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Facebook's Self-Deleting Pokes Can Be Resurrected 90 Days Later (FB)
Facebook's new Poke app, which allows users to send each other messages and photos that automatically delete after a few seconds, doesn't actually delete those messages irretrievably for another 90...
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The 12 Coolest Startup Offices We've Ever Seen
Here at Business Insider, we go on a lot of office tours.Only a handful have blown us away.From sprawling roof decks to skeeball, check out 15 spectacularly decorated startups.We've been to them all...
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CHART OF THE DAY: Surprise! Apple's 2012 Was Better Than Its 2011 (AAPL)
As the year drew to a close, the story around Apple got incredibly negative as the stock fell from $700 to almost $500. But, if you step back and look at the full-year picture, the stock was up 31%,...
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Twitter Is Now Trading At $11 Billion On The Private Markets
A new report by Greencrest Capital saysTwitter is prepping for an IPO—not this year, but likely in 2014.That squares with what Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey told CNBC late last year: The company is...
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How To Turn Your Pet Into An Internet Star
Cats and dogs are the indisputable champions of the Internet.After all, "Boo" the dog has more than 6 million fans on Facebook, and more than 10,000 people showed up to a film festival showing only...
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REPORT: Al Jazeera In Talks To Buy Al Gore's Current TV
The Qatar-owned media group Al Jazeera is in talks to buy Current TV, a struggling cable channel founded by former US vice president Al Gore, The New York Times reported Wednesday.The deal could allow...
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Bill Gates Is $7 Billion Richer Than He Was A Year Ago (MSFT)
After giving away $28 billion, Bill Gates is no longer the third-richest man in the world.He's the second-richest. You read that right. Despite his considerable, praiseworthy charity work, the...
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It Looks Like Microsoft Was Behind Slingbox Creator Blake Krikorian Quitting...
Blake Krikorian, the hardware entrepreneur, quit Amazon's board of directors on Monday to join a mysterious competitor. We now know its name: Microsoft.Microsoft reportedly bought Krikorian's latest...
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Microsoft's Windows Sales Dropped 11% During The Holidays (MSFT, AAPL)
Microsoft's Windows sales dropped 11% on a year over year basis during the holiday season in the U.S., according to new data from NPD.This is bad news for Microsoft's Windows franchise, but it's not...
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There Is A Weird Google Bug That 'Praises The iPad' (GOOG)
There's a weird bug with Google services that software developer Paul Kafasis has been tracking.When using Google Now or having Google Translate speak aloud, the phrase "he now praises the iPad" is...
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