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Google Lobbying Spend Hits New High
Oct 26th
Google is spending more money on lobbying than ever before, as legal woes continue to plague the search giant.
By September 30, Google had already spent $5.9 million on lobbying. For all of 2010, Google spent $5.6 million on lobbying. This quart…
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Android Market Hits 500,000 Successful Published Apps, Has 37% Removal Rate
Oct 22nd
In terms of pure volume, the Android Market is rapidly catching up with the Apple App Store. Android has also been a step behind Apple. The iPhone was released in 2007, Android made its mass market debut in 2008. Apple just released iOS 5 while Android just put out version 4.0. From the application perspective, Apple has long maintained a large lead.
Mobile research firm Research2Guidance said in August that the Android Market would catch the App Store by the end of 2011. Today it released its September 2011 numbers to show that the Market has achieved half a million successful app submissions, compared to near 600,000 for Apple. Yet, even though an app has been published, that does not mean it stays in the store forever. Apple still has the advantage in application churn rate over Android.
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As of the end of the third quarter 2011, the Android Market had 319,161 active applications as compared to 459,589 for the Apple App Store. The churn rate, or applications that have been removed from an app store, was significantly higher for Android at 37% as compared to 24% for the App Store. Research2Guidance added the Windows Phone Marketplace into its study, showing a 13% churn rate.
Over 78% of the apps removed from the Android Market were free, which Research2Guidance believes is a product of the open ecosystem of the market where Android publishers have more apps in the market for testing, demos, trials and malware.
Apps die. It is a reality of the nature of development and lifecycles. There are a variety of reasons for this. Many times it is because an app does not support new versions of the operating system it is built on. For instance, there will likely be a large churn rate for older Android applications that do not end up supporting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The same goes for developers who have not taken the time to update their apps for functionality to iOS 5.
Apps are also removed because the code degenerates and are not updated to fix bugs. Or, instead of updating a version of an app, publishers will just publish the next version as its own app and disregard maintenance for the older version. For the Android Market, malware is also a factor in removal that, as we have seen, has not been a problem on iOS.
Research2Guidance notes that the Windows Phone Marketplace is on a similar trajectory to Android in terms of removal rates. After 15 months, the 13% churn is comparable to Android at 14% after the same period of time. The firm notes that the cleanup of the Android Market did not come until well after that, near the end of 2010.
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As Twitter Hits New Milestone, CEO Talks Google, Search, Apple, IPO, Privacy
Oct 19th
Speaking with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo touched on a number of recent developments for the social media giant, dispelling a few rumors as he went. Twitter is now hosting 250 million tweets per d…
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The Guardian iPad Edition Hits iOS 5 Newsstands
Oct 12th
Just in time to hit the new iOS 5 Newsstand, The Guardian has launched a swanky new iPad edition. The app delivers content mirroring The Guardian‘s Monday through Saturday papers, but the design is all digital. Pages swing smoothly between portrait and landscape modes, the ads are interactive, and photos and videos abound.
The app is only available for iPad users running the newly released iOS 5. To promote the launch, the first 87 issues of the iPad edition are free. After that trial period, the cost of a weekly subscription is £9.99 or $13.99 per month.
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The app comes in through the Newsstand feature of iOS 5. All its text and photo content are available offline, and related stories open in a browser view. Readers can swipe back and forth between stories instead of having to tap around through menus. The app offers story sharing through Facebook, Twitter and email.
“The Guardian iPad edition is a new, fresh and appealing form of our newspaper content,” says editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger. “The single daily download and the hierarchy of articles will suit people who love the Guardian’s newspaper content. To that we’ve added a selection of relevant web articles.”
Rusbridger says the app reflects the organization’s digital-first strategy. That’s a curious remark, considering that this iPad edition mirrors the print paper, but we’ll let that one slide, because this app is a first-rate tablet experience.
The Guardian has also offered a free photo gallery app for iPad called Eyewitness, which launched in February.
The Guardian’s Moves Across The Pond
Though this app centers around the U.K. edition of the paper, it has plenty to offer international readers. The Guardian has made it clear that it has international ambitions as a news organization, too. In September, it announced the launch of a U.S. homepage and declared that it was hiring U.S. journalists. It also offers a free U.S. version of its iPhone app.
As we reported yesterday, new studies show that tablet owners love consuming news on these new devices. The Guardian’s new app is an excellent example of all the qualities highlighted by consumers in that study.
Take the Guardian iPad Edition for a spin and let us know what you think!
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Google+ Hits 50 Million Users, Adds Circle Sharing
Sep 28th
Many brands have been impatiently waiting for Google to unveil Google+ business profiles. Now there’s more news that should make marketers even more eager: Google’s social network has hit an estimated 50 million users, partially thanks …
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Facebook analysis shows top 1000 sites garnered 65M “like” or share hits – TechJournal South
Sep 23rd
Foursquare Hits 1 Billion Check-Ins
Sep 21st
Foursquare hit the truly impressive 1 billion mark for check-ins this week. The continuous surge in the service’s popularity combines with recent business options to make Foursquare a powerful marketing opportunity.
To celebrate, Four…
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GitHub Hits 1 Million Users
Sep 21st
GitHub, the website for sharing code and developing software collaboratively, today reported that it has hit 1 million registered developers hosting code. The understated but much-loved site simply posted a celebratory illustration and Tweeted a Tweet about it.
GitHub launched just over three years ago and has stolen many a heart from Sourceforge, Google Code and other related websites. (Sourceforge remains much more trafficked though.) GitHub’s support for the git system of version control, as well as its well designed user interface, has made it the coolest place for developers to work online.
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While GitHub is used by lots of advanced developers, it’s also accessible enough for many early developers to use. In that, it joins many of the other technologies we write about here in a movement of world-changing platforms that enable new voices to be heard and new creators to create.
Readers visiting this blog post later in time may be interested to know that two of the hottest repositories on GitHub the day it hit 1 million users were Twitter’s Bootstrap and Twitter employee Nathan Marz’s Storm.
Congratulations, GitHub.
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Twitter Hits 100 Million ‘Active’ Users
Sep 8th
Started just 5 years ago, Twitter announced today at the “State of the Union” that they have officially reached their 100 millionth ‘active’ user. Of the active users, 55% use Twitter on their mobile devices. Each month over 400 million unique visitors use Twitter.com…
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Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews
Aug 24th
Social networking behemoth Facebook reached 1 trillion pageviews in June, according to new data. Facebook is the most-visited website on the Internet, according to the data, which is compiled by the ad network DoubleClick, a subsidiary of Google.
In June 2011, Facebook received about 870 million unique visitors, a figure that exceeds the number of registered users the site has by about 120 million. That’s because many of the site’s pages come up in search results and are generally visible to non-users, even if only partially.
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According to this data, the site gets nearly 1,150 pageviews per visitor. That’s an extremely sticky website. Yet it comes as little surprise considering how much time many users spend on Facebook doing things like clicking through photo galleries (each photo counts as a pageview), playing games like FarmVille and viewing other people’s profiles.
The second most-visited website was YouTube, which had 790 million unique visitors in June and 100 million pageviews.
The data released by DoubleClick does not include adult websites, ad networks and certain sites owned by Google.
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