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Foursquare Hits 2 Billion Check-ins, 20 Million Users
Apr 16th
It’s April 16th … otherwise known in some circles as Foursquare Day. (Get it? 16 is four squared. And April is the fourth month of the year.) In honor of its own unofficial holiday, Foursquare has confirmed the latest numbers related to its continuing growth: more than two billion…
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Google Forfeiture: Government Splits $500 Million
Apr 4th
Government agencies that took part in an investigation of Google for distributing paid search ads for Canadian pharmacies that illegally shipped drugs into the U.S. will split $500 million Google forfeited to avoid Department of Justice prosecution.
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Oracle Rejects Google’s $3 Million Offer to Settle Patent Dispute
Mar 31st
Google offered Oracle $3 million plus less than 1 percent of its Android’s revenue in the hopes of avoiding a trial over claims that Google’s Android operating system has infringed on Java patents. Oracle has rejected the offer for being too low.
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Google Spent $213 Million Advertising its Products in 2011
Mar 29th
The online giant is spending enormous amounts of money on TV, magazine, and newspaper ads to promote Google+, Chrome, and other products. Google is now spending around the same percentage of revenue as companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo.
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Twitter Turns 6: From 140 Characters to 140 Million Users
Mar 24th
Microblogging pioneer Twitter marked its sixth anniversary by announcing that it now has more than 140 million users. The company said that its users average more than 340 million tweets daily, totalling upwards of 2 billion posts per week.
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NY Times Paywall Nears Half a Million Monthly Subscribers
Mar 23rd
In a year the New York Times has succeeded in gathering nearly half a million digital subscribers. Next month it will tighten things up for non-subscribers, only allowing 10 free articles per month (where 20 per month are presently allowed). It is clear that the paywall experiment for the Times is working quite well.Ryan Chittum writes about his own expectations for the paywall and mistaken assumptions in the Columbia Journalism blog today.
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You can see the steady growth over the past year in the chart below:
This week Lee Enterprises, publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and other smaller midwest papers, said that they also plan on implementing a paywall for most if not all of their subscribers before the end of the year. (The comments on the Lee story are somewhat amusing, with words like dinosaur and buggy whip being bandied about.) And Gannett, another big publisher (most notably of USA Today) also announced last month they will begin their own paywalls too. Readers will get five to 15 stories free depending on the publication.
We have written frequently on the progress of (and how easy it is to get around) the Times paywall over the past year, including a review of the Times’ election iPhone app which can be found here.
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Lookout Predicts Americans Lose $30 Million in Smartphones a Year
Mar 22nd
We’ve all done it. You step out on the street after paying for your coffee at Starbucks or handing the cab driver a tip. Your first natural inclination is to reach in to your pocket, dig out your cellphone and call somebody and say, “hey, I’m on my way.” But your phone is not there.
Damn it.
Mobile security firm Lookout estimates that $30 billion worth of smartphones are lost every year in the United States. Sometimes those phones are found, many times they are not. Losing your phone is one of the most stressful events a person in a consumers’ day-to-day life. Many people rely on their smartphones for everything, from directions to contacts to pictures of their puppies and babies. It is an intensely personal device. If you have lost your phone, in many ways, you have lost yourself.
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In a new website launched today, Lookout takes a look at the lost phone conundrum. While Lookout user base is mostly U.S focused and Android-based, it still tracks $7 million in lost devices daily. Over the course of the year, Lookout located 9 million in 2011, or about one device every 3.5 seconds.
It is important to note that Lookout located these phones. That does not mean they were actually found. The sad reality is that once a phone is lost, the longer it takes you to find it, the likelier it is gone forever. Kind of like a missing persons case. I once used “find my phone” software to try and locate my device after a heavy night of drinking and could not find it, only to realize about three days later that it was in my couch cushions.
In the U.S. the most likely city to lose your phone is Philadelphia. Having spent significant time in Philly over the years, I can understand this. Mostly, I would lose almost all of my possessions just to escape being in Philly. Philadelphians are three times more likely to lose their phones than New Yorkers or San Franciscans who, in turn, are three times more likely to lose their phones than Chicagoans.
Philadelphians also lose their phones in weird place. For instance, the No. 1 place to lose your phone in Philly is the automotive shop, according to Lookout. A pizza place, church and an apartment were the next most likely places. In New York, phones were lost most often at a fast food restaurant, followed by coffee shops and apartments. It will come as a surprise to no one that San Franciscans lose their phones most often at coffee shops or at the office.
Phones are lost most often at night, particularly between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. There could be a variety of reasons for this. It has been a long day and you are tired, not keeping track of your device. Or, you lost it earlier in the day and are just figuring out that it is not on your person. You may be working late at the office or the coffee shop and are in a rush to get out and go home.
Or, to the pub.
Drunk people lose stuff. This is a basic tenet of modern society. The most common place to lose your phone in London is at the pub. To be honest, this is where I tend to lose my device most often. I have left it sitting on the bar or at the table when with a group of friends. I have even left my phone at my local pub on purpose, trusting my local bartender buddies to keep me from drunk dialing ex-girlfriends. You would be surprised how well this works.
Lookout located $2.5 billion worth of devices in 2011, mostly Android and mostly in the U.S. That number was reached by averaging about $250 per device, which is pretty close to the cost of buying a new Android (after taxes and accessories etc.)
One interesting note that may have a correlation is that some cities that have the FBI’s highest crime rates were also in Lookout’s top 10 for lost phones. That includes Cleveland, Detroit, Oakland and Newark. While Lookout just processes the data and does not make the statement that “your phone is more likely to be stolen in this city,” it is interesting to note.
Not included in Lookout’s numbers are the psychological or enterprise toll that losing your phone has on an individual. For enterprise workers that lose there phones, the cost can be enormous. Trade secrets, contacts lists, access to company infrastructure are all concerns that IT departments have with workers who lose their phones. There is also the human cost for enterprises that must have IT guys set up device and application management software through companies like Apperian, App47, 3LM, Research In Motion, Symantec, Good Technology and a variety of others.
Do yourself, you business and your smartphone a favor. Do not lose your device. Use device tracking software through iOS or a variety of third-party applications to keep track of where it might be. Next time you reach into your pocket and find it empty, you will be glad you did.
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Evergrowing UK SEO industry “worth £500 million” – Vertical Leap News (press release)
Mar 22nd
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Evergrowing UK SEO industry "worth £500 million"
Vertical Leap News (press release) A report from Econsultancy released earlier this week revealed that the value of the UK SEO market currently stands at around £515 million- an 18 per cent rise from its total worth of £436 million in 2010. The news comes as no surprise to those keeping … |
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Google: 130 Million ‘Bad Ads’ Were Killed in 2011
Mar 15th
Google claims it has halved the number of scam ads being displayed across its services thanks to new technologies and improved detection methods. Still, some illegal ads for pharmacies, mortgage scams, and the 2012 Olympics snuck through.
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BrightEdge Raises $12.6 Million to Fund Market and Company Expansion – MarketWatch (press release)
Mar 15th
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BrightEdge Raises $12.6 Million to Fund Market and Company Expansion
MarketWatch (press release) BrightEdge pioneered enterprise-grade search engine optimization (SEO) in 2008 by delivering the first and only cloud-based platform that systematically allowed enterprises to grow their web site traffic and revenue through organic search. |
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