Fiksu, a mobile app marketing company, released data today pointing to the increasing cost of acquiring a loyal customer on mobile app stores. The data highlights two trends: Developer demand [...]
Distimo has released some insightful data on the impact of being featured on the app store. The last line is the most important Another way to attract attention is by [...]
Six months ago, I wrote about the struggle the Android tablet would face against iPad. Google’s marketing initiatives alone couldn’t match iPad. Plus, content lock-in would keep iOS users buying [...]
Second only to Oracle, Google is the great integrator of large acquisitions. DoubleClick, YouTube, Android, Docs, AdSense, Keyhole, Postini and AdMob all were acquired and well integrated. Many of them [...]
Internet Google Plus has rolled out its gaming platform with 16 titles from 10 developers (EA/Popcap, Rovio, Zynga, Wooga, Kabam and others). Google is charging an initial 5% transaction fee, [...]
Internet Akamai released its State of the Internet report: The average monthly 3G traffic is the highest for laptops (1-7 GB), followed by tablets (250-800 MB) and smartphones (80-600 MB) [...]
Content has been a primary driver of smart phone adoption. In the first few years, apps were critical. Apple and Google focused on courting developers and released developer counts and [...]
Internet At Google I/O, Google: announced Android has 100M activated devices; is growing by 400,000 per day; and has amassed 4.5B app downloads to date. updated the Android Market with [...]
Forrester’s report on Facebook’s lack of effectiveness for e-commerce merchants indicates only 7% of retailers rank social networks as an effective source of sales/leads in 2009. On a unit economics [...]
Internet & Media Google launches +1 a way to share high quality search results and ads. The first social initiative, +1 provides a social signal for use in search quality. [...]
