released Windows Ad Mediator, an extension to help Windows Phone app developers fill more ad inventory. The extension allows developers...

A third of all paid search spend went to mobile in the third quarter of 2014, an increase of 180 percent year-over-year. Mobile search...

In something of a surprise Android-based smartphone maker Xiaomi has overtaken LG to become the world’s third largest OEM after Samsung...

Wearables are here to stay. The question now is what’s the right design, feature set and price. Yesterday Microsoft made its opening...

Microsoft has redesigned its portal site MSN to make it more cross-platform and ad friendly as well as more personalized. It’s a...

announced widely anticipated layoffs this morning. A total of 18,000 jobs will be eliminated by June 30, 2015, most by the end of the...

Android devices already beat Windows, Mac and iOS devices by a wide margin, and a new forecast from Gartner sees that growing even more...

Apple’s rivals, by comparison are busy bringing their wrist computers to market. Samsung has been the busiest of the bunch with its...

interview at the Code Conference. He spoke about a wide range of issues and challenges that Microsoft faces. He also helped demo some...

Smartphone growth continues according to the latest “shipments share” numbers from IDC. The firm anticipates Android will reach 80...

Though Cortana is has generated the biggest headlines from Microsoft’s annual Build Conference, the company dangled a few new carrots to...

I projected today that overall device shipments (not sales) would increase this year by nearly 7 percent vs. 2013. Sale of traditional...

introducing low-end Android smartphones upon being absorbed into Microsoft is obvious. Had the company put out Android devices earlier,...

For months the tech press has been writing about the imminent arrival of Microsoft’s answer to Siri: Cortana. The virtual assistant is...

IDC, “Android and iOS accounted for 95.7 percent of all smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2013, and for 93.8 percent of all...

It’s that time again. That’s right, I’m talking about 2014 mobile marketing prediction time. A few weeks ago, I asked some of my smart...

analysis of smartphone and tablet traffic. Based on “tens of millions of smartphone and tablet online ad impressions from the Chitika...

released data showing that Microsoft Surface 2 driven web traffic has grown at a faster rate (on a percentage basis) than tablets from...

latest devices forecast arguing that tablets will overtake PC shipments (desktop + laptops) in Q4 of this year. The firm said that for...

Microsoft had acquired Nokia’s hardware business for roughly $5 billion and would spend another roughly $2 billion to license the Finnish...