Apple iOS users are spending twice as much time watching videos on their devices as Android users, according to a new report by Ooyala, a venture-funded video services company founded by former Google employees. “It's a finding … that seems to fly in the face of IDC market share data that had Android outselling Apple in 2012 by more than three to one,” Fortune reports. 

For Netflix, faster Web speeds mean better streaming experiences for users, and, hence, more users. As such, Netflix just launched the ISP Speed Index -- a site designed to help consumers find faster Internet service providers (ISPs). “The data on the site, Netflix says, is based on data from more than 33 million Netflix members who view over 1 billion hours of TV shows and movies streaming from Netflix per month,” TechCrunch reports.   

On the heels of raising $200 million, Pinterest on Tuesday debuted a Web analytics tool for site owners. With Pinterest Web Analytics, publishers will be privy to “detailed information on how many people have pinned something from their site, see pins from their pages, or visited their site from the social network,” CNet reports. “The analytics also show repinned items, most clocked, and most recent pins.” 

LinkedIn is reportedly ready to buy the maker of the newsreader app Pulse. “The price of the acquisition is in the tens of millions, [sources] said -- between $50 million and $100 million,” AllThingsD reports. On Monday, AllThingsD reported that Microsoft and Yahoo were in the running for Alphonso Labs, which makes the Pulse app for various platforms. 

Did you get your yam? In perhaps the oddest marketing gimmick in the history of SXSW, a company claiming to be “an online marketplace for yam enthusiasts and traders” -- yes, “Yamtrader.com” -- sent yams to media and press professionals in the run-up to this year’s event. Those lucky enough to receive the vegetables were instructed to redeem them for a $50 AmEx gift card in Austin. As AllThingsD reports, however, it was all a ruse orchestrated by cloud services company Tri-Net.  

Stateside, Google is reportedly nearing an agreement to pay about $7 million to settle allegations that the search giant improperly collected personal data for its Street View product. “The company has reached an agreement in principle with more than 30 states,” Bloomberg writes, citing a source. From 2007 to 2010, Google improperly gathered “sensitive personal information,” from non-secured Wi-Fi networks, the FCC said last year.

Facebook appears to have developed a reputation as a perilous platform for app developers to risk their fortunes on. “Investors and entrepreneurs say that the unpredictable way that Facebook cuts off apps or suppresses their presence has made them increasingly wary of building companies that rely on Facebook,” Reuters reports.  

YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley -- who left the video-sharing site a while after selling it to Google -- is almost ready to unveil his latest service. The product is “primarily video-based … and gives flexibility for people to work together and create content,” Hurley said at SXSW, this weekend. Notes AdWeek: “Sounds like Hurley is talking about taking a second crack at creating a better YouTube.”

Can consumers resell digital content? Unfortunately for the book and music industries, doing so is becoming increasingly plausible. For instance, “In late January, Amazon received a patent to set up an exchange for all sorts of digital material,” as The New York Times reports. “The retailer would presumably earn a commission on each transaction, and consumers would surely see lower prices.” Of course, content creators are fighting back. 

There are battles brewing that could collectively impact U.S. consumers’ access to high-speed Web connections. Nationwide, telecoms -- including AT&T Time Warner Cable -- are challenging state-sponsored broadband in the name of free enterprise. “Small-town mayors … have pushed back, saying they want to build or improve networks because private companies won't,” The Wall Street Journal reports.