SnapChat has convinced media companies like CNN and Yahoo and Vice to be part of its new Discover feature, and they were easy to convince because of SnapChat’s 200M-plus millennial audience… Read more »
Twitter wants to get on the good side of third-party app developers with some new features for its expanded-tweet Cards, but the main focus of these new features is still to… Read more »
In his annual letter to shareholders of the seed-stage incubator Betaworks, founder and CEO John Borthwick argues that while closed platforms can be valuable in the short term, open systems and… Read more »
Zynga is in turmoil. Since its IPO, Zynga stock has cratered, and it lost its COO. Its emerging mobile strategy has failed to impress. With increasing competition, it’s worth understanding whether… Read more »
It’s been less than nine months since Zynga started to hint at the strategy that would launch its next stage of growth and reduce some of its dependency on Facebook. In… Read more »
Paul Sweeting runs down the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, but as an old operating systems industry analyst, I have to take a NewNet look as well. It’s intriguing how the big… Read more »
Several web technology themes and trends were reinforced in the fourth quarter of 2011, including a handful of tech platform wannabes and the rumblings of a shakeout in social commerce. For… Read more »
Net Applications and AdMob have released their latest reports, and both suggest the protracted struggle for the future of mobile computing is far from over. As far as one can see… Read more »
Apple hasn’t made any secrets about its plans to get into the mobile advertising game and now it seems they will be revealing a new advertising venture built on top of… Read more »