For SMBs, The Mobile Spirit Is Willing, But... by Steve Smith

The overwhelming majority of small and medium-sized businesses are already convinced that a mobile strategy is essential to their future growth. Only 14% actually have a mobile-optimized site right now. Talk about an opportunity. ...Read the whole story

  • Cablevision Gains Video Customers, Helped By Mobile, Net Rises by Wayne Friedman

    More Internet and phone consumers at Cablevision Systems helped the company maintain its revenue levels in its first quarter of 2012 versus the same period a year ago. But Wall Street still wasn't happy. ...Read the whole story

  • LinkedIn Doubles Revenue, Acquires SlideShare by Mark Walsh

    LinkedIn doubled its first-quarter revenue to $188.5 million from a year ago on strong growth across its employment services, subscription and advertising business lines in the first three months of 2012. The professional network reported a profit of $5 million, or 4 cents a share, up from $2.1 million, and break-even, in the year-earlier period. LinkedIn also announced its acquisition of online content-sharing service SlideShare for almost $119 million in cash and stock. ...Read the whole story

  • Kindle Fire Sales Cool, Nook Tablet Dips by Mark Walsh

    Shipments of the Kindle Fire went cold in the first quarter, falling 62% to 0.8 million units from 4.8 million in the fourth quarter, according to new data from IDC. That dropped Amazon from a 16.8% share of the worldwide tablet market to just a 4% share, with Samsung jumping ahead to second place behind Apple. ...Read the whole story

  • electronics New Nook Heals 'No. 1' Bedroom Woe by Aaron Baar

    Barnes & Noble positions itself as marriage savior in a new campaign for its latest e-reader innovation, the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, the first "E-Ink" reader that illuminates to accommodate reading in darkness. ...Read the whole story

  • Study: Control And Empowerment Driving Mobilized Era of 'Extreme Shopping' by Steve Smith

    Mobile devices are helping to create a new breed of "extreme shopper" who feels more in control and fully informed at every stage of the purchase process. GfK advises retailers to feed the new feeling of customer empowerment with smarter mobile solutions. ...Read the whole story

NHL PrePlay App Looks Beyond Check-ins, Tune-ins and Social TV by Steve Smith

The National Hockey League is going beyond Social TV with second-screen gaming that revives a familiar predicitive play model. The hope is not only to get people to tune in or check in, but to stay in their seats, fully engaged with the TV programming. ...More

  • Every Screen is a TV; Nielsen Says Gaming Consoles, Mobile Viewing Up by Daisy Whitney

    Recently, my son wanted to see a different TV show than the one his sister was watching on the big screen. I said he could watch his show somewhere else and he pointed out that his sister was using the TV. I laughed and said "Every screen in this house is a TV." And they are. We don't have cable service and the ten-year-old TV set we have doesn't tune in broadcast channels. So whether it's the big screen, a Mac computer, a tablet or a mobile phone - any device with a screen is equal in my house. They ...More

  • Mobile Media Milestones by Jack Loechner

    According to the latest Global Mobile Media Forecast from Strategy Analytics, consumers are expected to increase the spend on mobile media by a further 13.4% from $121.8 billion in 2011 to $138.2 billion in 2012. In contrast, advertiser spend on mobile media is expected to almost double from $6.3 billion to $11.6 billion, resulting in the total mobile media economy reaching $149.8 billion in revenue in 2012, a 17.0% increase on 2011. ...More

  • HBO Go Positioned For Both Now And Later by David Goetzl

    It startled plenty when Netflix CEO Reed Hastings indicated last year his company's principal opposition was not Hulu or Amazon, but the Cadillac of premium TV content -- HBO. After Netflix had suffered from a marketing mess and resulting stock price plunge, no one could accuse Hastings of a lack of confidence vis-a-vis a challenge to HBO Go. That's the much-lauded streaming service that gives HBO subscribers access to loads of its original series and movies on platforms such as an iPad or Xbox and soon the Kindle Fire. HBO is confident a combination of its subscription package and exclusive ...More