Ina Fried in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 8:28 am PT
In addition, Costolo announced the company will offer crowdsourced translations of the service into Russian, Turkish and Indonesian. Also doing own translation to Portuguese later this year.
John Paczkowski in News on February 8, 2011 at 7:15 am PT
Nearly 56 million tablets will be shipped in 2011–200 percent more than were shipped in 2010. That’s the latest forecast from NPD’s DisplaySearch, which expects that number to hit 172.4 million by 2014.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on January 24, 2011 at 4:20 am PT
Twitter’s ad business is still in the just-getting-started phase, but
eMarketer thinks that will still be a nine-figure business: It predicts
Adam Bain and crew will sell $150 million worth of
promoted tweets,
promoted trends, etc., this year. Next year, spurred in part by a Google/Facebook-like self-serve ad system: $250 million. “But the company must show it can live up to its hype.” Noted!
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 20, 2011 at 6:40 am PT
Still no rest for the weary computer security professional. Smartphones and tablets are coming to the office and creating new opportunities for trouble.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 7, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
There’s been a lot of attention in recent days paid to Microsoft’s creation of a version of Windows for ARM chips from TI, Qualcomm and Nvidia. But what do you know about ARM, the company behind all those chips designs?
Liz Gannes in Social on January 5, 2011 at 12:31 am PT
Just when you thought Twitter had become a basic tool that serves many purposes, we’re reminded that the service has fostered an actual community.
At least that’s the case in my little corner of the Twitterverse, which tonight has overflowed with a meme that just about everyone can participate in and appreciate: #lessambitiousmovies.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4, 2011 at 5:22 pm PT
Amazon.com is one of the top picks in e-commerce for the year, mostly because of its dominance, but also because of the opportunities it has going forward in mobile and social networks. Here’s how the two factors play a role as e-commerce revenues are expected to jump by 13 percent in 2011.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4, 2011 at 8:13 am PT
Now that the year has wrapped up, Nintendo is claiming to have broken two industry-wide records in 2010 to make its portable DS franchise and the Wii two of the best-selling game systems of all time.
But is past prologue?
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 31, 2010 at 10:38 am PT
2010 was a good year for IT growth and will be a tough one to follow, Gleacher analyst Brian Marshall says.
