Tag: mobile applications

June 1, 2016

Many of the world’s largest Internet companies, like Google and Facebook, rely heavily on advertising to finance their online empires. But that business model is increasingly coming under threat, with one in five smartphone users, or almost 420 million people […]

April 8, 2016

Image Credits: Engadget Phone and software makers, including Apple, Google and Samsung, are getting involved in mobile payments to make their products more useful and attractive to their owners. Behind all this is the belief that consumers will discover the […]

March 16, 2016

Image Credits: latimes.com For years, we have been trained to view web postings from our friends in a certain order. Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and […]

February 25, 2016

Native advertising is working out well for Yahoo. Just how well? The company has just released a new infographic that highlights the growth in question. According to Yahoo’s Yannis Dosios, “Since Yahoo launched Gemini Ads in 2013, native advertising has […]

January 21, 2016

This year, I’m trying to keep better track of my life. That includes tallying how much I exercise, how often I use my phone and how well I sleep. To do all of that, I’ve turned to a trend called […]

December 31, 2015

Because retailers are acutely aware that despite the popularity of online shopping nearly 92 percent of retail sales are made at brick-and-mortar locations, a technology that will help drive shoppers into stores is certain to attract a lot of attention. […]

November 18, 2015

Just about every major tech company, like Apple and Microsoft, has some sort of wearable computer. Caeden, a wearable tech start-up, thinks that with most of these smartwatches and fitness accessories, an important first step was skipped: They don’t look […]

November 10, 2015

India’s e-commerce start-up Flipkart has worked with Google to make a new mobile website that could eliminate the need for apps, in a move that takes a swipe at Apple’s grip on the mobile experience. On Monday, Flipkart unveiled the […]

October 5, 2015

To block ads or not to block ads on your mobile device? That’s the philosophical dilemma facing consumers since Apple added support for ad blockers to its iPhone operating system a couple of weeks ago. To help answer the question, […]

September 15, 2015

Since the early days of the dot-com era, people have been buying more stuff — from pet food to diapers — on the Internet. The process was straightforward: Fire up your web browser, fill out your shipping and payment information, […]

September 3, 2015

The signs are still not looking good for the maker of Angry Birds. The woes became clear again last week when Rovio, the Finnish company that helped usher in the rise of mobile games with the Angry Birds franchise, said […]