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People are playing mobile games at home — especially in bed
venturebeat.com
Mobile games rule in the home these days, and the most popular place to play them is in bed. MocoSpace surveyed 15,000 of its mobile social game users and found that 96 percent of them play mobile games at least once a day at home. About half, or 53 percent,...
Sponsor post: Get ready to rule the cloud!
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Attend Opscode’s inaugural user conference #ChefConf 2012 to acquire the tools necessary for automating cloud infrastructure through a wide range of insightful demos, workshops and keynotes. Featured speakers from companies such as Fidelity, Ancestry.com, HP Cloud, Rackspace and more will present the future of cloud infrastructure automation. At #ChefCon 2012,...
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, And Social Media Marketing: Three Trends
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Yesterday Orbitz CEO Barney Harford defended his company's targeted pricing -- offering Mac users more expensive hotel options than those offered to PC users -- by using Twitter to send out a clarification. As Harford's succinct response shows, social media has grown beyond a conversation tool to help companies manage...
Take The 2012 State of Search Marketing Survey
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SEMPO & Econsultancy have teamed up again this year to run the State of Search Marketing Survey. The survey will cover topics including budgets, marketing objectives, and the latest trends in paid search, search engine optimization (SEO), and social media. SEMPO and Econsultancy are asking... Please visit Search Engine Land...
Yahoo launches its own iOS web browser called Axis, with a focus on syncing bookmarks
9to5mac.com
Perhaps following suit with Google’s plans, Yahoo has launched its own iOS web browser called Axis this evening (via CNET), that hopes to be the ultimate solution for syncing up bookmarks and browsing the web. Taking a page out of Instapaper, Readability, or Read it Later’s book Axis installs as a...
Angry Birds Space hits 50M downloads in 35 days
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Angry Birds Space has been downloaded more than 50 million times in its first 35 days on the market, according to publisher Rovio. That makes it the fastest-growing mobile game in history. And it means that Rovio hasn’t exhausted its franchise yet, even though it has had more than 750...
Rapper Soulja Boy opens up shop on Shoply
thenextweb.com
Soulja Boy, the American rapper, actor, record producer and entrepreneur has opened up a retail outlet on Shoply, the social shopping market place. It’s not the first time the artist has harnessed the web to support his career. Soulja Boy’s first single, ‘Crank That (Soulja Boy)‘, back in 2007 was launched on...
Celebs are great, but brands might be even better: Socialcam grabs the OWN Network
thenextweb.com
The latest trends for startups, specifically mobile applications, is to attract celebrities with big followings to their platform. So far, it has worked for companies like Instagram, Mobli, Viddy, and Socialcam. While celebs bring a select audience, depending on how young, old, and rabid those fans are, brands can grab...
SPONSOR MESSAGE: Enterprise SEO Tools - The Marketer's Guide
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Learn more about enterprise SEO software platforms, plus the latest trends, opportunities and challenges in this market: Who are the key players in SEO platform and tools software? What do you need to look for in an enterprise SEO software solution? How is social media affecting the growth in this......
App Annie launches analytics for Google Play Android apps
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App Annie, a provider of app-store analytics, announced today that it has launched its free and premium products for Google Play, the Android App Store. That should result in improved analytics information and all-important intelligence for mobile-application publishers. With the addition of App Annie for Google Play, publishers will be...
Learning From Zynga's "Draw Something" Debacle
www.fastcompany.com
In pop culture, when something gets really hot, it can be classified as either "the next big thing" or a simple fad. If last month's numbers are any indication, Draw Something falls into the latter category.Six weeks after Zynga plopped down $200 million to acquire Draw Something developer OMGPOP, there...
SPONSOR MESSAGE: Webinar, Tuesday, June 26: Search, Social and Mobile: What Travel Marketers Must Know
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1 PM EDT, 10 AM PDT. Join speakers Elisabeth Osmeloski and Carroll Rheem for the “Search, Social and Mobile: What Travel Marketers Must Know” webcast as they discuss the latest trends in online travel marketing including search, social and mobile opportunities. Register now! Please visit Search Engine Land for the...
SPONSOR MESSAGE: Webinar, Tuesday, June 26: Search, Social and Mobile: What Travel Marketers Must Know
Last chance to be a part of Kickstarter history: Double Fine campaign ends today
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With less than six hours left on the clock, Double Fine is already celebrating more than $3M in Kickstarter funding for its Double Fine Adventure. Double Fine Adventure was the second Kickstarter campaign to ever reach $1M, though it did so considerably faster at just under 24 hours. At...
Game Time’s Over, Now Do Some Work
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Working on the PandoTicker gives me a unique perspective of the high-level stuff that’s going on in the industry, affording me the chance not only to add a little bit of snark to the Ticker posts (who doesn’t love snark?) but also to catch up on some of the latest...
Gaikai streams Bulletstorm console game in the Chrome browser
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Game startup Gaikai streamed the high-end game Bulletstorm to the Chrome web browser today in a demo at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Normally, you have to play such games using a console and game disc. Or you could play it by using a streaming service such...
Rovio to launch Angry Birds cartoon series this fall
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Rovio is betting that it will be a long time before Angry Birds runs out of steam. This fall, the Finnish company will launch a cartoon series for fans of Angry Birds. The company has one of the hottest brands of the mobile era thanks to the popularity of its...
Grab your official MWC Android app now
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Click to view slideshow. If you are not attending the Mobile World Congress 2012 show now underway in Barcelona, Spain until March 1 but want to stay on top of the latest trends in mobile, worry not as Google just released the official MWC app for Android devices. Called “Android...
The New API: Apps, Partners, Income – Adam Duvander at The Next Web Conference 2012 [Video]
thenextweb.com
APIs are no longer just useful pieces of technology, they’re key to new business models emerging across the Web. As Executive Editor of ProgrammableWeb, Adam DuVander tracks the latest trends in API usage. At The Next Web Conference on Thursday, he talked us through how they’re changing the business of the Web....
Phones 4u 'JUMP' plan lets you swap phones every six months, for a price
www.engadget.com
Britons! Dedicated followers of fashion! If your clothes are loud (but never square) and you've just gotta keep up with the latest trends, then Phones 4u should be your next stop. The independent phone retailer is offering customers JUMP (short for "Just Upgrade my Phone"): a 24-month deal that'll...
Mobile World Congress 2012: Talk That Talk
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Sunday marks the start of this year's Mobile World Congress, the annual convention where wireless executives and hardware makers gather to show off their sleekest new devices and discuss the latest trends in the mobile industry....
This Hacker News iOS app is very reminiscent of Instapaper, and it rocks
thenextweb.com
If you pay any attention to technology and all and are trying to keep up on the latest trends, it’s likely that you check out Hacker News once in a while. It’s a service provided by Y Combinator and lets people submit news and vote on what’s interesting. Yeah, it’s...
Coming Of Age
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I’m out here slingin bringin the drama, tryin to come up in the game and add a couple of dollar signs to my name - Memphis Bleek Coming Of Age by Jay-Z I'm not going all Ben Horowitz on you. But imitation is the finest form of flattery and I...
Report: $99 Android-based game console Ouya on the way
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A $99 Android-based video game console that’s free-to-play and “built to be hacked” is currently in development, according to The Verge (via Kotaku.) Ouya will have a “high-concept developer ecosystem that’s as free as can be,” according to The Verge. The startup behind Ouya claims every customer who buys a retail box...
Interview: Angel investor Marco Giberti on the Latin American startup scene
thenextweb.com
With less than three months left to The Next Web Conference Latin America, we help you get ready with a new post series that will bring you everything you need to know about this exciting region. A speaker at the latest TNW Conference in Amsterdam last April, Miami-based angel investor Marco...
USA Today’s internal app stats show Amazon’s Kindle Fire trouncing other Android tablets
www.geekwire.com
Hey, looky what landed in our inbox. Here’s an interesting slide from a USA Today presentation that shows the number of downloads for each of the newspaper’s mobile apps — providing some interesting insights into the latest trends in the mobile market, including the rapid growth of Amazon’s Kindle Fire....
Posterous: Fast and Efficient Social Sharing
webworkerdaily.com
We are crawling the Internet all the time; monitoring the latest trends and technologies, seeking, discovering. If you’re like me, during your web travels you often come across treasures you want to share. Some deserve a tweet; some belong on your pro blog; others on your personal blog. But sharing...
What If Oscars Were Given To Movie Websites?
www.smashingmagazine.com
Many of us today probably use the Web to book tickets and find information about movies. By selling tickets and entertaining visitors, websites help movies succeed at the box office and earn public approval. And yet, website developers don’t get any public recognition for the success of movies. Isn’t...
10 Secrets To Creating Your Brand’s Facebook Presence
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Want to know how to most effectively build your brand’s presence on Facebook. While we have presented numerous guides for marketers using Facebook, some of our guides are not created by the leading practitioners which is why we like to give these individuals the opportunity to share their experiences on...
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