Twitter Cofounder Suggests A Replacement For The Follower Count
“The dream metric is how many people saw your tweet,” says Ev Williams. Twitter's own Klout? — Via: @jonsteinberg — Twitter cofounder Ev Williams — who remains on the company's board — hinted Mon...
iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million
Apple® today announced it has sold over five million of its new iPhone® 5, just three days after its launch on September 21, and more than 100 million iOS devices have been updated with iOS 6, the wor...
Foxconn Plant Closed After Riot, Company Says
SHANGHAI — Foxconn Technology, a major supplier to some of the world's electronics giants, including Apple, said it closed one of its large Chinese plants early Monday after police were called in to b...
Facebook raises fears with ad tracking
By Emily Steel in New York and April Dembosky in San Francisco — (Financial Times) — Facebook is working with a controversial data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads ...
Introducing Endorsements: Give kudos with just one click
On LinkedIn, you have many smart, talented, and skilled professional connections. Starting today, we are introducing Endorsements, a new feature that makes it easier to recognize them for their skill...
Apple warns ex-MobileMe users with 20GB free iCloud storage of ‘downgrade’ coming Sept. 30
Apple has begun sending last-minute reminders to users currently enjoying 20GB of free iCloud storage, warning that from September 30, it will downgrade their accounts unless they take action.
Intel Confirms Medfield x86 Chips Don't Support LTE Yet — But Says It Won't Be Long Coming
But Says It Won't Be Long Coming — Intel's second bite at the smartphone market has been more akin to a gentle nibbling around the edges. At the end of last year the chipmaker teased a smartphone re...
Groupon Is Buying Restaurant Reservations And Discount Provider Savored
Groupon continues its acquisition march to beef up its service and take itself beyond daily deals. Today it announced that it would buy Savored, a restaurant reservations and discount meal provider.
Flatlining user base spells end of RIM's growth story
A decade after Research In Motion Ltd. introduced its first smartphone, the tribe of BlackBerry users has stopped growing. — RIM is in the midst of a long-running slump in sales, but despite that, i...
Frustrated with poor mobile sales, publishers blame ad agencies
Publishers are seeing mobile audiences growing fast - but revenue is yet to catch up, and it's the ad industry taking the blame. — Mobile makes up a fifth of reader traffic for 87 percent of publish...
Facebook Mobile Payments Via Carrier Billing (And Bango) Now Live In U.S., UK And Germany
Another step ahead for Facebook's strategy to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is now accepting mobile payments for its mobile web service via carrier billing in the U.S. …