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Midweek roundup: Windows Phone bits and pieces
thenextweb.com
Good morning, evening, and afternoon TNW readers, depending on where you are. This post is a brief compendium of several Windows Phone newsy bits and rumors. Instead of breaking them down into several posts, we’re compiling the group here to save you time. Of course, if you want to get a good...
Smoked by Windows Phone contest is a red-hot success, despite controversy
venturebeat.com
Microsoft’s Smoked by Windows Phone campaign — in which consumers battle their smartphones against Windows Phones in various speed contests — has been a smashing success for the company, generating over 100 million consumer impressions across a variety of media. The numbers come from Microsoft evangelist Ben Rudolph, also...
Google launches ‘Beba,’ an NFC-enabled payment card in Kenya
thenextweb.com
Google, in a bid to boost its presence in the payments market, has launched Beba in Kenya, a pre-paid card enabled with Near Field Communication (NFC) to allow people to pay their bus fare without using cash. Yes, Google is doing this. Actually, according to Beba’s Terms of Service agreement, the company in...
Tablet Sales Will Blow Past PC Sales To Nearly 500 Million Units A Year By 2015 (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, HPQ, RIMM)
www.businessinsider.com
Tablet sales will hit nearly 500 million units a year by 2015, according to a new report by BI Intelligence. Tablet sales in 2015 will exceed the number of PCs currently sold per year (~360 million) and make tablets a $100+ billion market. The forecast, which includes e-readers, predicts...
Tablet Sales Will Blow Past PC Sales To Nearly 500 Million Units A Year By 2015 (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, HPQ, RIMM)
Live From PandoMonthly
pandodaily.com
We are here at the first ever PandoMonthly event and it has turned out to be a smashing success (so far). We have our special guest and Pando investor Mike Arrington sitting down for a fireside chat with Sarah Lacy. We’re partnering with Ustream for the event, and they are...
An advanced guide to using Instagram to build your brand
www.geekwire.com
It’s the pictures, stupid. That’s basically what the people at Facebook will tell you when it comes to the most important part of the social network. The Facebook community uploads 250 million photos a day. And 70 percent of all activities on the site revolve around pictures. And it’s that core...
Microsoft: Ballmer did not say we’ll sell 500 million Windows 8 devices in 2013. Really. We promise.
thenextweb.com
Did you catch that story the other day, that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stated that Microsoft was going to have a Windows 8 install base of 500 million, or so, by the end of 2013? That Microsoft was going to sell so many new machines and software licences was big news. After...
Microsoft: Ballmer did not say we’ll sell 500 million Windows 8 devices in 2013. Really. We promise.
In Memoriam: Even in losing, how Digg won
gigaom.com
The Digg Townhall meeting broadcast live from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. 2008. Photo courtesy of Eric Magnuson, via Flickr Having spent a major part of the week sitting on a beach, practically disconnected to the incessant drumbeat of the news cycle, it was hardly surprising that I...
Louis C.K. sees ticket scalping drop over 96% by switching to selling tickets himself
thenextweb.com
Comedian Louis C.K. made the technology world turn his direction when he decided to sell his latest comedy special himself, digitally, and DRM free. It was a smashing success. The $5 download proved a fresh model for artists in the broadband age. Louis has again taken to task an entrenched...
A year after launch, U.S. Spotify users have listened to 13B songs, shared 27.8M
venturebeat.com
Streaming music service Spotify has plenty of nifty stats to share on its first year in the U.S., including the fact that U.S. listeners have jammed to more than 13 billion songs. Spotify launched in the U.S. on July 14, 2011, joining a wave of other streaming music services...
A Million Users? Pshaw. What Are Today's Head-Turning Metrics?
allthingsd.com
Illustration via Shutterstock | Picsfive This week Rovio said its Angry Birds games have been downloaded more than a billion times. That’s a serious milestone, and beyond that there’s no doubt about the cultural effect of the franchise’s stuffed animals, movie tie-ins and repeat success with new titles. So I...
In Case You Missed It: PandoMonthly with Elon Musk
pandodaily.com
Last night’s PandoMonthly with Elon Musk was a smashing success. After selling out at record speed, hundreds came to watch, devoured a mountain of pizza, and walked away with PandoDaily t-shirts in hand. In case you were unable to watch it live at the time, or were stuck in traffic...
Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Dropbox Is The Best Overall Startup
techcrunch.com
This year’s fifth annual Crunchies Awards has just finished up at the classy Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and it was a smashing success. We poked fun #humblebraggers, got cussed at by Siri, honored former TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde, and gave wild monkey trophies to tech’s greatest innovators. If...
Cool for school: Education is a big hit on YouTube
gigaom.com
Dancing babies, cute kittens and… quantum physics? Science may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you’re thinking about YouTube, but the video site has seen a boom of educational content. YouTube is expected to announce Wednesday that views of educational videos have doubled on its site...
Cool for school: Education is a big hit on YouTube
gigaom.com
Dancing babies, cute kittens and… quantum physics? Science may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you’re thinking about YouTube, but the video site has seen a boom of educational content. YouTube is expected to announce Wednesday that views of educational videos have doubled on its site...
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