
Live Blog: The Windows Phone 8 Launch Event
Live from San Francisco, it’s Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 launch event. Our live blogging will begin when the event starts at 10am, so...

Windows 8: A Touch Too Far?
I’ve spent the weekend playing with a new Windows 8 computer as well as a Microsoft Surface tablet. My first impressions so far? Isn’t it...

iPad Mini A Great 7-Inch Tablet, But Price A Success Barrier
launch event I had a chance to play with the smaller Apple tablet for about 10 minutes. It initially did look and feel to me, contrary to...

Almost All B2B Marketers Do Content Marketing, But Only 36 Percent Think It’s Effective [STUDY
The numbers come from a new Content Marketing Institute/Marketing Profs study (sponsored by Brightcove) of more than 1,400 North American...

Marissa Mayer Outlines Her Goals At Yahoo, Gives Frank Assessment Of Where Company Is Today
reviewing Yahoo’s financials on his first day at the company. But the big focus of the call is Mayer herself — it’s her first opportunity...

Twenty Dollars For A Twitter App? Blame Twitter’s API Rules
That’s the question that Tapbots is asking Twitter users. The company, makers of the excellent and popular (and free) Tweetbot client for...

The Formula Behind The Facebook “Like” Number
Facebook’s private messages spawned quite an uproar last week when it was uncovered that messages were not only being crawled, but also...

Survey: 70 Percent Of SMBs Embrace Social Media, Seemingly Indifferent To Other Marketing Channels
Merchant Circle (owned by Reply.com) finds that a majority are using social media to promote themselves. Yet only small minorities are...

Facebook Exchange & How My Drugstore.com Basket Got Turned Into Facebook Ads
It seemed uncanny. There, among the ads shown to me on my Facebook page, was one for a specific type of razor I’d been looking for off of...

Red State, Blue State: The Social Network VP Debate Divide Shown In Map Form
In addition to the spikes in search activity, Thursday’s U.S. Vice-Presidential Debate also heated up across popular social networks. You...

Making It Personal: Taking Action On Your Customers’ Digital Body Language
You stagger into your favorite coffee shop on Monday morning at 7 a.m., yawning and desperate for a caffeine jumpstart, when Mandy the...

Microsoft To Make Same Privacy Change Google Was Attacked For; No One Seems To Care
This is a long article, so let me say from the start that I don’t think consumers need to fear either the change Google did or the one...

Pinterest May Have More Visitors Than Tumblr; If Not, It Will Soon
The folks at Compete made a splash today with a blog post that shows how Pinterest recently surpassed Tumblr in terms of unique visitors....

The “Phablets” Are Coming — Please Make It Stop
Online market research provider uSamp recently conducted an online survey (n=400 US adults) about “phablet” awareness. Not surprisingly...

Your Private Facebook Messages Aren’t So Private: Shared Links Count Towards ‘Like’
TheNextWeb uncovered a bug last week that was actually providing two Likes for data shared privately. Facebook did confirm that the issue...

Twitter Quietly Launches A User Directory
You may not have noticed the link, but it’s there in the footer of Twitter’s home page if you’re logged out: “Directory.” It’s a link to...

Mobile Browser Speed Battle: iOS Devices Faster On 3G, Android Faster On LTE
Strangeloop Networks has just published its 2012 State of Mobile Ecommerce Performance report, which looks at how fast the top 200...

Facebook Seeking To “Close The Loop” With Offline Sales Data
Google Wallet and Offers have online-to-offline tracking as one of their long-term objectives. And the advent and growth of smartphones...

Walmart’s Local Facebook Strategy Isn’t Working, Study Says
Those are some of the findings from a new study by Recommend.ly, a social media tools/analytics company. Walmart launched the “My Local...























