News Byte
Mike Isaac in Social on May 8 at 8:02 am PT
Facebook users spent an average of nearly 7.5 hours accessing the site from mobile phones in March, according to a recent comScore report, surpassing the average time spent accessing the site via desktop by nearly an hour. The trend is consistent with the shift of users relying more heavily on mobile devices to access the site, as the company itself has noted; more than half-a-billion people accessed Facebook via mobile device in March.
John Paczkowski in News on April 27 at 4:35 am PT
According to the latest figures from comScore, the Fire has captured more than 54 percent of the Android tablet market.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 18 at 3:00 am PT
Google — and Facebook — try moving the really big bucks from old media, using the tools the old media guys prefer.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 3 at 3:49 pm PT
An additional 30 percent of smartphones are iPhones, with both iOS and Android continuing to gain at RIM’s expense.
Voices
Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Social on February 28 at 10:06 am PT
To hear Google Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page tell it, Google+ has become a robust competitor in the social networking space, with 90 million users registering since its June launch. But those numbers mask what’s really going on at Google+.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 7 at 8:27 am PT
Amazon’s growth of 35 percent in the fourth quarter ended up clocking in at more than twice the overall market’s growth, according to comScore, which released new data yesterday.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 18 at 9:39 am PT
Web advertising is supposed to be precise. But even in 2012, marketers are still paying for ads no one ever sees.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 9 at 6:00 am PT
TripAdvisor’s co-founder and CEO Stephen Kaufer talks to
AllThingsD about the media company’s prospects for growth now that it has broken off from Expedia and is an independently traded company.
