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The Four Tiers of Twitter Users: Tweeters, Voyeurs, Readers and the Uncounted Masses

Liz Gannes in Social on September 8, 2011 at 1:17 pm PT

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo for the first time today offered precise Twitter user numbers, giving a view of usage that is more nuanced than a social network or a media site.

Viral Video: James Bond As a Lady

Kara Swisher in News on March 9, 2011 at 1:56 am PT

This is perhaps the oddest video in honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, in which James Bond–played by actor Daniel Craig–puts on a dress. No, really.

Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Raises $27.5 Million to Fight Apple and Google

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 5, 2011 at 7:37 am PT

Millennial Media has raised a new round of capital today to help it stay independent and fight the Goliaths in the space, like Apple and Google. Will it be enough?

U.S. Smartphone Race Still a Three-Way Contest, but RIM Is Fading as Android Gains

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 3, 2011 at 11:05 am PT

The BlackBerry, iPhone and Android-based devices roughly split the U.S. consumer market, according to Nielsen. However, Android’s growth continues to accelerate, while fewer new phone purchasers are choosing a BlackBerry. Overall, more people than ever are choosing a smartphone over less brainy devices.

The Mobile OS World: Symbian, iOS Are Superpowers; Android a Developing Nation

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 1, 2010 at 11:43 am PT

Some sobering data points for the Droid army and a reminder that the Android onslaught is still largely a domestic phenomenon (for Koreans). Mobile Web usage statistics for the month of October compiled by StatCounter and Royal Pingdom reveal Apple’s iOS and Nokia’s Symbian as the dominant platforms, with Android besting them in a single country.

You May Be Reading This in the Bathroom, on Your Phone

Peter Kafka in Media on November 8, 2010 at 2:21 pm PT

And many of you probably think that’s okay.

Facebook Looking for Japanese Friends

Yoree Koh, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 29, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Sharing is caring, and by linking up with one of Japan’s biggest social networking sites, Japanese users are likely to be finally drawn to Facebook. In contrast to its success elsewhere, Facebook has so far failed to establish itself as Japan’s most popular social-networking site. The company, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, has thus decided to launch a cross-platform feature that will allow users of Facebook and Mixi, a popular Japanese social-networking site, to link to each other’s profiles.

Nintendo More Scared of Apple Than of Microsoft

John Paczkowski in Mobile on October 26, 2010 at 7:32 am PT

Which company is the greater threat to Nintendo’s gaming business–Apple or Microsoft? According to Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, it’s Apple–at least in the short term. “Do I think that in the near term [Apple] can hurt us more than Microsoft?” Fils-Aime said to Forbes. “Absolutely.”

News Byte

One-Third of the World's Population Online by the End of 2010

Beth Callaghan in News on October 19, 2010 at 2:51 pm PT

This whole Internet thing is really catching on. The number of people online has doubled in the last five years to two billion, and will reach one-third of the world’s population by the end of 2010, according to statistics from the International Telecommunications Union. Connection in the developing world is growing at a faster clip, but only 21 percent of people in developing countries will be online, as opposed to 71 percent in developed countries.

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