After revealing that half of its 850 million users log in to its mobile products, Facebook is reportedly planning to start running mobile ads as early as March.
Around 40% of Facebook users access the social networking site via mobile app, according to a research firm, with half of all active iOS and Android users (as well as an estimated 70% of BlackBerry users) installing the Facebook app.
Imagine your phone ringing on the breakfast bar across the room. Could it be the job offer you’ve waited all week for? But—drat—you’re smack in the middle of changing your three-month-old, who’s made something otherworldly and possibly radioactive in his diaper. Not the best of times to swipe your potentially contaminated fingers across your phone’s [...]
At a VentureBeat Mobile Summit last night, Square COO Keith Rabois declared “the website as you know it” to be “dead.”
HBO fans have reason to celebrate with the premium cable company’s announcement of HBO Go, available on tablets and mobile devices early next month. Good news to be sure, but there’s also a downside: like the desktop version, to access it, you have to be subscribed to the network.
Until recently, Libyan rebel had resorted to waving flags in order to communicate with each other in their fight against Muammar Gaddafi. Green flags signaled an advance, yellow flags signaled a retreat.
My first job ever was at Best Buy. I applied when I was 14 and was turned down for being too young. I reapplied at 15, was almost hired, and then got turned down when they asked to see my non-existent driver’s license. I reapplied on my 16th birthday and was finally hired. Nerd alert.
Off the top of my head, I can’t tell you many people hit up Facebook daily, but a freakishly high number of people visit the site on their phones everyday. In fact, Facebook says over 250 million people visit the site monthly on their cellphones.
Something caught your eye in-store? It already might be second nature to whip out your phone, using it as a guide about whether you should really splurge on that brand new Inception Blu-Ray.
It’s clear that Microsoft doesn’t want to be left behind. Reports are saying that the company is jumping on the bandwagon, along with Google and Apple to develop a mobile payment system.
Word to the wise: This app is not for people who can’t handle Foursquare. But if you can get past sharing your location to the world (and love to tweet and Facebook with rabid enthusiasm), Color, a social-network-slash-phone-app, is an interesting social network that’s designed to meet people.
