Still think tablets are a fad? This comScore stat will convince you otherwise
www.geekwire.com
ComScore’s new report — U.S. Digital Future in Focus 2012 — spells out just how powerful of a force the tablet market is becoming in tech. Consider this: It took seven years for 40 million Americans to own a smartphone, a milestone that the tablet computers hit in less than...
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Google Handwrite lets us scribble our way through mobile searches (video)
www.engadget.com
Not eager to hunt and peck on a keyboard? Google Handwrite is here: the search engine's mobile pages will now let you draw letters on the page to conduct searches with the writing method you learned before this whole computer fad took hold. There's no special plugin required --...
Social: Zynga Tanks As Market Worries 'This Was a Fad'
www.wired.com
Mark Piuncus at a Fortune conference earlier this month. Photo: Fortune Live Media/Flickr Zynga shares fell 42 percent in after-hours trading after the social games maker posted a loss, widely missed analyst estimates, and slashed its earnings outlook for the rest of the year. Facebook got dragged down too, with its...
The untold story behind Kickstarter stats [infographic]
venturebeat.com
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Kickstarter failures that were difficult to find because Kickstarter intentionally prevents failed campaigns from being indexed by the search engines…and how I managed to find (what turned out to be) about 59% of the unsuccessfully funded projects. My article generated a lot of attention, including from Mashable and VentureBeat (which republished...
Did Autodesk Just Spend $60 Million On A Dying Fad?
www.businessinsider.com
Last month we interviewed Socialcam cofounder Michael Seibel. Then, Socialcam was still in the middle of explosive growth. Its video app competitor, Viddy, was experiencing down traffic while Socialcam's was still soaring at 8 million daily active users. Today Autodesk has acquired the 18-month-old startup for $60 million. But AppData...
Is the internet as addictive as tobacco? | Anonymous
www.guardian.co.uk
Digital content is designed to be addictive - like tobacco or fast food. So let's be honest about which services are the doughnutsI like the internet. I use it a lot. In fact, I work at a senior level in the industry and from here the internet does not look...
Room for Debate: Is Facebook a Fad? Will Our Grandchildren Tweet?
www.nytimes.com
Social media are often seen as part of a long-term shift in how people interact, like the telephone. But Facebook’s troubled I.P.O. and other growing pains might make you wonder....
ShoeDazzle’s New CEO is Risking it All to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
pandodaily.com
ShoeDazzle’s business is losing customers and top management. ShoeDazzle is better poised than ever before to build a big company. Astoundingly, both of these statements appear to be true. And they both happen to do with the same singular event in the company’s history. It wasn’t changing the business...
How to cash in on creativity: Snapguide grabs $5M round
gigaom.com
Creativity apps on Apple’s iOS platform aren’t just a consumer fad — investors want in too. Snapguide, an app that lets anyone create an easy how-to guide with their iPhone, has snapped up a $5 million investment round, according to an SEC filing and later confirmed by CEO Daniel Raffel...
TastemakerX: Whistling Past the Startup Music Graveyard by Sidestepping the RIAA
pandodaily.com
TastemakerX has opened its “I HEARD IT FIRST!” music app to the public today. Tastemaker taps into hipsters’ and record nerds’ desires to be the first one to discover a new band and evangelize it to their friends. For such hipsters and nerds (read: My husband), the app is...
Porn, gambling, and malware: Bitcoin as the Net's Wild West
arstechnica.com
On June 8, 2011, the same day Ars Technica ran its first story about Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer digital currency's value jumped to an all-time high of $32. Bitcoins had been worth less than $1 just two months earlier, and that day proved to be the peak of the bubble. The...
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