Ingrid Lunden
Jan 10, 2012 8:03 AM
Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will be playing a key role, and so, it seems, will carriers.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 9, 2012 11:18 AM
Hispanics, according to Nielsen, have the second-highest penetration of smartphone usage among U.S. ethnic groups, and today brings news of a news app specifically targeting that demographic: Univision is launching its first news app, “Noticias Univision,” based on the broadcaster’s TV brand and website of the same name. It is…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 22, 2011 6:00 AM
This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we cover, from publishing to mobile to advertising. Despite the economic slowdown, digital advertising and marketing revenues grew in 2011 and remained a cornerstone…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 21, 2011 12:09 PM
Android’s Market and the App Store from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may be getting ever-closer to being level in the number of apps on offer, but when it comes to making money for developers, it looks like Apple’s iPhone app storefront is still very much in the lead. And freemium looks…
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Laura Hazard Owen
Dec 14, 2011 9:00 AM
Hyperlocal content network Examiner.com is partnering with CBS (NYSE: CBS) Local Digital Media to provide exclusive content for CBS’s locally targeted properties in 25 cities.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 13, 2011 9:18 AM
On the back of its latest executive appointments—a new head of sales, and a new head of HR—AOL (NYSE: AOL) is pressing on with more reorganizing as CEO Tim Armstrong tries to turn around the fortunes of the jack-of-all-trades online company.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 6, 2011 7:24 AM
Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ubiquity among the growing number of smartphone users in the country: the search giant is reportedly planning to launch search apps for Apple’s iOS devices by…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 1, 2011 5:51 AM
It’s taken a few years, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has really ramped up the number of countries where it is selling its Kindle products. Today it’s announcing two more countries to the list where it sells its keyboard-free Kindle e-reader, Spain and Italy, where it will sell for €99 ($133),…
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Laura Hazard Owen
Nov 30, 2011 3:22 PM
“Save to Foursquare” buttons now appear alongside web content at New York magazine, *Time* Out, and a variety of other publishers, allowing users to send places they want to go to their phones and get alerted when they’re in the vicinity.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 28, 2011 9:23 AM
Despite warnings from groups like the OECD that Europe and the U.S. are heading into recession, the flurry of online and mobile activity that has kicked off the holiday shopping season seems to be indicating an altogether different sentiment from consumers.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 9, 2011 8:37 AM
A big bump in business for bricks-and-mortar mobile shopping app Shopkick: the company has signed a significant deal with Old Navy clothing stores to add another 1,000 retail outlets to Shopkick’s network, bringing the total number of stores served today to 4,000.
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Laura Hazard Owen
Nov 1, 2011 5:08 PM
Hyperlocal news network Main Street Connect has a new CEO—tech industry vet Zohar Yardeni—and also closed a $7 million funding round, the company announced.
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 28, 2011 7:59 AM
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) appears to be ramping up its activities in China. Today a report notes that the company is in talks with the Chinese government to retail its Kindle products, including e-readers in the country. If true, that would make China the first market in Asia to get a…
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Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 27, 2011 8:04 AM
Hyperlocal startups in a crowded marketplace are testing new ways to stand out, and they discussed their strategies at the Street Fight Summit in New York City this week. Here are some lessons learned.
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 17, 2011 6:13 AM
Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inking a deal with Samsung to preload access to Yandex on its line of connected TVs as well as its bada-powered feature phones distributed in Russia and other…
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David Kaplan
Oct 12, 2011 10:30 AM
LocalResponse, the “check-in” ad network formerly known as Buzzd, has raised $5 million to build up its sales team as it tries to attract agencies and marketers to its offerings.
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 11, 2011 5:23 AM
Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app, says it is the most-downloaded free music app in both the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store and Android Market in the U.S., but that volume has…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 3, 2011 6:36 AM
There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world—and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto some logs to kill a pig? But not all apps are as wildly successful as Angry Birds. So just as importantly, when it comes to what…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 26, 2011 9:52 AM
Pew, in its latest, ongoing research into news consumption and news creation, took a pit stop in the world of mobile today, and found that while handheld devices like smartphones and tablets are not the primary source for news, they have become a significant “supplemental source” after other channels like…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 19, 2011 8:38 AM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples of how its trying to diversify for a later day. It has bought the German Groupon clone Daily Deal and it has started rolling out its…
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