Apple’s track record with services is pretty awful, but it’s acquiring talent and its cost of streaming music customer acquisition will be much, much lower than anyone else’s. Spotify and Pandora… Read more »
Participants at a Mapping Session predict that the companies that figure out the right balance of special- versus general-purpose functionality will unlike wearables for the mass market. Read more »
For iOS, anyway. So much for its HTML5 strategy? Not quite. Some elements – news feed features that will change the most frequently, for instance – still depend on HTML5. But… Read more »
Twitter is a mainstream communications technology that plays a critical role in news and content discovery. The company has spawned a business ecosystem of third-party developers and services that create apps… Read more »
Google invited some search watchers to a breakfast yesterday where it told a story of how it’s tying together some features it has previously shown. Google has talked about a Big… Read more »
Facebook and, to a lesser extent, Google continued to dominate social and online media in the second quarter. Activity in the social-enterprise space picked up as well. Key highlights from the… Read more »
Lots of local activity in social and online media today. A local marketing services company, Momentfeed, says its data analysis implies that Facebook has shifted its feed algorithms to promote the… Read more »
AllThingsD hears that Apple will discontinue its Ping social network with a coming release of iTunes. When Apple introduced Ping, Om said it showed hints of the future of social commerce… Read more »
At its Worldwide Developer Conference yesterday, Apple announced it would integrate Facebook features into the next versions of its mobile and desktop operating systems. Users will be able to Like apps,… Read more »
Facebook officially launched its App Center for the web and mobile app discovery and promotion. It is distinctly not an app store – the mobile version funnels users to Apple’s and… Read more »