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The music industry is set for a marketing revolution as APIs go mainstream
thenextweb.com
“This year feels like APIs are becoming a mainstream thing for the [music] industry.” These were the opening lines from Stuart Dredge at the ‘Music apps – beyond the hype‘ evening in London last night. Dredge is the editor-in-chief of business intelligence service The Appside and Music Ally, the hosts of...
One Year Post-Launch, E La Carte Has Put 20,000 Of Its Tablets In 600 Restaurants Worldwide
techcrunch.com
It’s been a year since E la Carte launched its customized tablet for restaurants, which brings menus, wine lists, nutritional info, play-while-you-wait games, and payment options tableside, and now the company has new numbers to reveal. This time last year, there were around 20 restaurants using the tablet; today there are now over...
Facebook adds new public data to page Timelines, lets businesses assess competitors
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As part of the latest update to pages, Facebook has made new public insights data accessible to any user who visits a page. While the new public insights are not likely to be used by most Facebook users, they will help page owners understand the growth trends and performance of pages...
Facebook now sending 160 million users a month through to mobile apps
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Back in February, Facebook announced that it was sending 60 million mobile users a month to apps and games with Facebook Platform, which allows users who spot app-generated content in their news feeds to tap a link and go straight to the appropriate native or web app. The figure...
Chrome passes Internet Explorer to become world’s most popular browser
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Google’s Chrome Web browser has continued to gain market share since its introduction in 2008. Despite surpassing Internet Explorer in select regions and on weekends, Google’s browser has never been able to dethrone Microsoft in global usage share. According to new numbers from StatCounter, however, Google’s browser has finally...
Android's User Growth Has Slowed To Its Lowest Rate Since 2009 (AAPL, GOOG)
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Android makes up the majority of the smartphone market right now, but that might start to change if recent sales growth trends continue. The number of new users who purchased an Android smartphone steadily declined throughout the first four months of this year, according to an analysis of recent comScore...
Brightcove’s IPO: What you need to know
gigaom.com
Online video platform provider Brightcove amended its SEC filing today to go public; the company is expected to raise just shy of $60 million, selling 5 million shares for $10 to $12 a piece. Brightcove originally filed its S-1 with the Security and Exchanges Commission in August of last year, but...
Evernote By The Numbers: 34M Users, 1.4M Paying, And The Relative Merits Of Different Platforms
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Phil Libin, the CEO of note taking app Evernote, is sitting on a $1 billion valuation and plans for an IPO, and while it may be a while yet before it follows through on going public , today at LeWeb in London he revealed new numbers for just how much the service...
Nielsen: As U.S. Nears Smartphone Majority, It’s A Two-Horse Race Between Android and Apple’s iOS
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New numbers out from Nielsen today point to just how close the U.S. is to having more smartphone than feature phone users: the proportion that currently owns a smartphone, as of February 2012, is 49.7 percent, say the analysts, a big leap on the 36 percent who owned smartphones a...
For Social Success, Post To Twitter & Facebook In Early Afternoons, Tumblr In Evenings
marketingland.com
When’s the best time to post to social media platforms to ensure your content is most seen? URL shortening service Bitly has crunched some new numbers. Success on Twitter and Facebook means posting in the early afternoons, while Tumbr likes the night live. Bitly looked at the amount of clicks......
Android 4.0 finally on 10 percent of devices, 8.5 months in
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The Android Developers site is posting some new numbers showing the distribution of Android versions on devices accessing Google's Play store, and while Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich showed growth of more than 50 percent over last month’s figure, it’s still only on 10.9 percent of devices. The increase...
Larry Page: Google+ Is Google’s Social Spine, Seeing “Healthy Growth” and “Impressive Engagement”
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During its Q1 earnings call today, Google’s CEO Larry Page called Google+ the company’s “social spine.” With about 120 Google+ integrations across Google’s portfolio, Page said, Google+ is now what connects all of Google’s products. He also stressed that there are two aspects to Google+: the social spine (which now...
NPD: Include iPad and Apple doubles nearest competitor in Mobile PC share, iPad now 63% of tablet market
9to5mac.com
Taken during the new iPad’s announcement in March Tim Cook likes to refer to the iPad as “the poster child of the post PC world” and brags often about how it’s leading the pack. According to new numbers out today from research firm NDP, if you account for the iPad (13.6 million...
NPD: Include iPad and Apple doubles nearest competitor in Mobile PC share, iPad now 63% of tablet market
The Era of AppNation Has Arrived
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Judging by two of the most hyped deals in recent Silicon Valley history — Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram for $1 billion and Zynga’s acquisition of Draw Something for $200 million — it seems like a foregone conclusion that the era of the app has arrived. And some new numbers from...
iOS web marketshare rises pass 65% in June
9to5mac.com
NetMarketShare is out with new numbers this morning that portray iOS’ continuing dominance over web marketshare. The firm found that in the month of June, iOS’ web marketshare rose almost 3%, pushing it past 65% — an almost 15% increase year-over-year. Compared to the competition, iOS is blowing 0thers out...
Songkick Secures Sequoia’s First Ever UK Investment With A $10m B Round
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Songkick – which allows users to follow music artists, their live music events and book tickets – has raised a $10 million B round of financing from Sequoia Capital. This is Sequoia’s first ever investment in a UK headquartered start-up. The round takes Songkick’s total funding to date to around...
Google App Engine by the numbers
gigaom.com
At Google I/O Google shared some new numbers that it says show Google App Engine, its platform as a service, is gaining momentum. Most interesting to me is that the company now claims 250,000 active users. That’s up from the 150,000 active users it claimed thus far. The company...
Roku CEO: Blu-ray is going to peak soon
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The sale of Blu-ray players is going to peak this year or next, Roku CEO Anthony Wood predicted at the TV of Tomorrow show Wednesday. “Will people use Blu-ray players in four years? I don’t think so,” he said, adding that the streaming performance on Blu-ray players doesn’t compare to...
It’s Official, Facebook Killed a Shaky IPO Market — Is a Rebound Coming?
pandodaily.com
Most people have overstated the impact of Facebook’s IPO Clusterfuck* on Facebook itself. Was it ideal? No. Are more recent employees let down? Most definitely. Was it a little embarrassing? Almost certainly on some basic human level. But at the end of the day, the company has $16 billion in the bank,...
Siri’s Nemesis Evi Relaunches, Recruits Berkowitz From Wolfram Alpha, Opens US Office
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We saw what happened yesterday with the Siri announcements from Apple. Clearly they see it as core to their strategy and its deep integration inside iOS reflects its increasing importance. Plenty of other players see the importance of voice-driven Q&A-plus-actions and a few attempts are roaming around on Android, such...
HTC Shares Fall as Taiwanese Phone Maker Names New CFO
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Shares of HTC fell on Tuesday after the Taiwanese cell phone maker announced it was changing chief financial officers. In a statement, HTC said it had named former Goldman Sachs partner and onetime Motorola engineer Chia-Lin Chang as its new numbers executive, replacing Winston Yung. Yung, who has been with...
Game Over: Latest Nielsen survey says over 90% of US Smartphones purchased in last 3 months are iOS or Android
9to5mac.com
With iOS maintaining its roughly 30 percent U.S. marketshare as of Q4 2011, and Android on the rise at the expense of RIM, Nokia and Microsoft, new numbers from Nielsen’s latest study shows just how much of a duopoly the US market has become. While noting approximately 50 percent...
Game Over: Latest Nielsen survey says over 90% of US Smartphones purchased in last 3 months are iOS or Android
Today in Tech: Will Google’s Dropbox rival launch next week?
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Fortune’s curated selection of tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day. * Research in Motion (RIMM) is reportedly seeking a financial advisor to help the ailing handset maker weigh strategic options. One analyst suggestion? License out the BlackBerry operating system to...
Android still has over 50% U.S. smartphone market share, says comScore
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Android is still the most popular smartphone operating system in the United States by a wide margin, as comScore has once again found that Android was on more than half of all active smartphones in the U.S during the three months ending in May. In all, Android accounted for...
Live blog: Apple Q2 earnings call
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Apple just announced is fiscal Q2 2012 earnings, and the company is set to hold an earnings call with investors to announce its fiscal Q2 2012 financial results at 2 p.m. Pacific / 5 p.m. Eastern time this evening. You can listen to the call on Apple’s Investor Relations page (QuickTime...
It Turns Out Facebook's Mobile Ads Are Clicked On Much More Than Its Web Ads
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According to Tech Crunch, new numbers show Facebook mobile ads are even more effective than its web ads. This data was not available in the past because Facebook just last month allowed advertisers to buy ads exclusively on mobile. (It's worth noting that the ad companies that provided the data...
5 Reasons To Stay Skeptical About Groupon (GRPN)
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The business press got excited when Groupon reported greater than expected revenues in Q4 2011 and missed earnings estimates only because of one-off tax expenses in its foreign operations. My boss even demanded an apology from Groupon's critics because the new numbers prove that the "haters" are "wrong."But before...
Japan inches closer to Android/iPhone duopoly, as Apple gains marketshare
9to5mac.com
As of the latest research from Nielsen, we know the United States smartphone market has quickly become an iOS/Android duopoly with 90 percent of devices on either one of those platforms. While smartphone usage in Japan is still at 1-in-5 mobile phone owners, new numbers from comScore today show Japan’s smartphone market is...
Cloud as job creator or destroyer? Microsoft says the former
gigaom.com
A new Microsoft-funded IDC report purports to show that the adoption of cloud computing will spark the creation of 8.8 million new jobs worldwide (1.1 million in the U.S.) in the next four years. That stat was met with silence from Microsoft partners and IT people who feel the number...
PC shipment forecast shrinks as Windows 8 approaches
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Research firm Gartner has reportedly lowered its projections for PC shipments this year and next, raising the possibility of a weaker-than-expected environment for the upcoming release of Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system. In a note to clients this morning, longtime Wall Street analyst Rick Sherlund of Nomura Securities said new...
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