
Data Show Dramatic Shifts In Mobile Operating System Share Over Time
The latest monthly smartphone and mobile data from comScore show little change. Google’s Android continues to lead the US smartphone...

Report: Apple Had 50% Of All Device Activations Over 2015 Holiday Season
Flurry has come out with their holiday mobile stats showing that Apple devices captures just about half of all device activations over...

Nielsen: Top Apps Of 2015 Dominated By Facebook, Google & Apple
Nielsen has released a look at the top smartphone apps of 2015. Amazingly the top ten reflects the properties of just three companies:...

Smartphone Data: Android Regains Share, But Apple Maps Wins The iPhone
According to comScore’s latest data (October 2015), 78 percent of US mobile subscribers own smartphones. I suspect we’ll reach 80 percent...

Google’s Latest App-Install Ad Lets Users Test-Drive Games Before Installing
Google has unveiled two new interactive app-install ad units for app marketers. The formats, Trial Run Ads and Interactive Interstitial...

Google’s Chrome Android App Loads Pages Without Images When Low Bandwidth Detected
“There’s a new way to load pages more quickly with Chrome’s Data Saver,” reads the announcement on the Chrome Google+ page, “The Chrome...

App Developers To Europe: Don’t Hurt Google’s Ability To “Improve” Android
A group of roughly 140 Android developers under the coordination of an organization called the Application Developers Alliance is...

Google Shows Offline Analytics Capabilities With Holiday Store Traffic Data
Like so many others, Google is putting out holiday shopping data this week. I’m sitting on 40 or more studies and surveys that discuss...

New Google Play “Warning”: App May Contain Advertising
Is “advertising” becoming a dirty word? In the broader climate of complaints about low-quality ads and ad blocking, it’s interesting to...

Make It So: Google’s Voice-Search-Enabled Star Trek Communicator Pin
Credit: Google Google, and search czar Amit Singhal in particular, have long been trying to develop experiences that mimic the...

Is Google Now Becoming A News Reader Too?
Ever since “stories to read” started appearing in Google Now, I’ve been eager for Google expand the section. Now Google appears to be...

Android 6 “Marshmallow” & SEO Series: Click To Search With Google Mobile
As Google’s crawling technology becomes more sophisticated and prolific with the release of Android Marshmallow, search behavior is...

Google Will Fight Russian Antitrust “No Mandatory Apps” Ruling
Seeking to avoid a potential “precedent” that might be emulated elsewhere, Google will challenge the Russian antitrust agency’s...

Yandex Takes Fight Against Google & Android To European Commission
Prompted by a complaint from Yandex, Russia’s antitrust regulator found that Google-required pre-installed Android apps violated Russian...

Android 6 “Marshmallow” & SEO Series: Sponsored Google Now Cards
Google Now is Google’s predictive search solution that tries to anticipate a user’s needs before the user searches. It presents...

Android 6 “Marshmallow” & SEO Series: Google’s Private Index & Screen Crawling
As over-the-air updates for Android 6, also called Android Marshmallow, start slowly rolling out to some Nexus devices, many SEOs are...

Hunger Games & TOMS Shoes Tap Into New YouTube Virtual Reality Video Support
According to the announcement, two brands are already taking advantage of the VR feature: Hunger Games and TOMS Shoes. YouTube said users...

Google To Combine Android And Chrome Operating Systems Into One
This afternoon, the Wall Street Journal reported that Google will be “folding” Chrome into Android. What this means as a technical matter...

Love, Not War: Microsoft & Google End Patent Suits
Yesterday Google and Microsoft agreed to dismiss multiple patent lawsuits against one another. While the settlement terms were not...
























