Kristina Farrah
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Facebook is the Biggest City in the World
Facebook’s success is phenomenal. It has 600 million users since its launch back in 2004. We’ve all come to know the social media giant to have a dramatic history. If you've watched The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg appears to have purposely kicked out his best friend and then-chief financial officer Eduardo Saverin by dramatically dropping ...
Flipboard Flips Oprah Effect – Raises $50M
Talk show sensation Oprah Winfrey is going to be a part of world’s first social magazine solely for the iPad , Flipboard. This marks the first time that Flipboard is allocating a section on the front page for a partner, in this case, ‘Oprah” in addition to social medium Facebook and Twitter. The section will ...
Android Market Outshines iOS, But Still Needs Work
Based on data from a network of 3.9 billion monthly mobile advertising impressions to over 220 million consumers, Inmobi today announced the result of its Mobile Insights Report: Global Edition March 2011. Figures reveal that for the first time ever, Android has surpassed iOS in terms of global ad impression share. Both OSes are consistent ...
Social Media and Privacy Just Can’t Get Along
We always hook up privacy issues in talks about social media as if they were born together as twins. Actually, they were, and it seems like the differences between them can’t be solved any time soon, or at least I think so. Facebook, being the largest social media network on the planet and the third ...
Nokia Users Make Ovi Look Good: 5M Daily Downloads
With 200 million users and 40,000 apps in its Ovi Store, the Espoo, Finland-based mobile giant Nokia has reached another milestone of 5 million downloads per day, a figure folded eight times compared to last year. Fifteen percent of the augmentation is credited to its new Symbian devices – the Nokia N8, Nokia C6-01, Nokia ...
Cisco’s Refocus Costs Flip, 550 Employees and $300M
Following the memo released to its employers last week, Cisco is starting to take action with regard to its apparent lack of role definition in the tech world. It will dispossess some of its consumer businesses, including Eos media solutions business, and Flip which the company purchased last 2009 for about $600 million. It will ...
Augmented Reality Gets a Social Twist: Layar Piles on the New Features
It seems like everything on the internet is not complete unless embedded with social elements (aka Facebook and Twitter). Today, Layar announced the 5.0 version of its open platform in mobile augmented reality, adding sharing capabilities to Facebook and Twitter for users to share their favorite screenshots to friends, as well as boosting interactivity with ...
Can Android Tablets Replicate Smartphone Success by 2015? Gartner Says No.
With iPad dominating the tablet market, iOS is also sitting on top of the industry running 83% of the tablets sold so far this year. Gartner analysts predict that it will continue to lead through 2015 with a 47.1% market share. For competitors to stand head-to-head with Apple, they have to tailor seamless user experience ...
AT&T Launches a Mobile Commerce Platform, More Deals with Digby
In addition to its retail industry solutions portfolio, AT&T today launched Digby Mobile Commerce, a platform designed to help retailers design, deploy and manage mobile commerce web sites and rich applications optimized for smartphones. This is yet another medium for business customers to extend the reach of their products’ information, reviews and promotion to customers ...
How Are Tablets Being Used in the Business World?
According to a Techaisle survey, there are 8.8 million tablet used by SMBs in the US today. The survey demographic, which is composed of 1,356 SMBs, says that over 50 percent purchased the device for business. Majority of the SBs don’t have a formal supporting policy for tablets, while 48 percent of MBs already has. ...