- Health and Fitness Topped All App Categories In 2014
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, December 12, 2014
Some of the top app of 2014 included Netflix, Facebook, Pandora a ...
- Zuckerberg: "Dislike" Button Never Coming To Facebook
Around the Net In Social Media & Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, December 12, 2014
Facebook users have been asking for a “dislike” button for as lo ...
- Facebook Fighting Search Warrants In Court
Around the Net In Social Media & Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, December 12, 2014
Taking a stand in the name of user privacy, Facebook is reported ...
- YouTube Testing GIF Maker
Around the Net in Video, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, December 12, 2014
YouTube is testing its own GIF maker. “At the moment, it loo ...
- Instagram Thrives, Surpasses 300 Million Users
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, December 11, 2014
Particularly among younger users, social networks have historically had short shelf live ...
- LinkedIn's New Home Page Enhances User Info
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, December 11, 2014
Linked In has debuted a new homepage, along with a distinct activi ...
- Google Shutting Down News Hub In Spain
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, December 11, 2014
Google News is officially shutting down in Spain in light of ...
- Microsoft Buys App Analytics Provider HockeyApp
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, December 11, 2014
Microsoft just bought a crash analytics and app distribution provider named HockeyAp ...
- Social Address Book Connect Raised $10M
Around the Net In Social Media & Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, December 11, 2014
Connect an app that doubles as a social address book and frie ...
- YouTube Testing Offline Video Playback For Mobile Users
Around the Net in Video, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, December 11, 2014
In select overseas markets, Google is testing offline video playback for YouTu ...
- Facebook Brings Twitter-Like Features To 'Trending'
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Facebook is bringing "Trending" to mobile, and adding some very Twitter-like featur ...
- 'NYTimes' Open-Sourcing Crowdsourcing Platform
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The New York Times has decided to open-source Hive — a platfo ...
- Facebook's AI Team Takes Aim At Drunk Posting
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Among other projects, Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research lab is trying to preve ...
- Citizen Journalism Gives Way To Vigilantism
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Citizen journalism hasn’t quite worked out as many media giants had hope ...
- Google Hangouts Gets Smarter
Around the Net In Social Media & Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Google Hangouts is getting smarter. For instance, as part of a broad ...
- Snapchat Taps Khan As Chief Strategy Officer
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, December 9, 2014
To find its financial footing -- and strengthen ties with Wall Stre ...
- Facebook Uploaded Videos Outpace YouTube
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, December 9, 2014
On Facebook, videos uploaded directly to the social giant now outnumber YouTu ...
- Change.org Taps Tech Gods For Fresh Funding
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Bypassing the traditional venture capital route, Change.org has raised $25 million direct ...
- YouTube Relaunches Apple TV App To Include Ads
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, December 9, 2014
YouTube just relaunched its Apple TV app so its videos can n ...
- DataGravity Raises $50M
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, December 9, 2014
DataGravity -- which specializes in helping companies track and extract value fr ...
- Amazon Adds "Make an Offer" Feature For Price Negotiations
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, December 9, 2014
For better or worse, Amazon has decided to let shoppers negotiate t ...
- Facebook Tweaks Graph Search, Ups Mobile Functions
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, December 8, 2014
Still officially in beta, Facebook just made several changes to its Gra ...
- Google: Less Than Half Of Display Ads Are "Viewable"
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, December 8, 2014
Of all the display ads Google serves, more than half (56.1%) ...
- Chris Hughes Defends Vision For 'The New Republic'
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, December 8, 2014
Following an unprecedented editorial exodus at The New Republic, owner and publish ...
- Secret Planning "Dramatic" Changes To Regain Momentum
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, December 8, 2014
Despite its early success about some influential early adopters, Secret has fall ...
- Daily Beast Gets Readers' Attention With Personal Analytics
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, December 8, 2014
The Nieman Journalism Lab considers The Daily Beast’s original app strategy, includi ...
- Twitter Launches Mobile Tool Answers
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, December 5, 2014
Adding to its mobile measurement offerings, Twitter just launched Answers -- ...
- Facebook Updates Slingshot To Push 'Creative' Conversations
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, December 5, 2014
Facebook just relaunched Slingshot, which is commonly referred to among average use ...
- Can 'The New Republic' Survive Its Radical Reinvention?
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, December 5, 2014
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has draw the ire of the media establishme ...
- Chartbeat Pegs "Dark Social" Missing Link: Mobile Apps
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, December 5, 2014
Analytics startup Chartbeat thinks a large share of “dark social” traffic com ...