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Online gaming is a bubble set to burst! Well, maybe not

by Nathan Pensky, February 24, 2012 | Comments

One analyst says the social gaming bubble is ready to burst, while another sees longevity

No one would deny that online gaming has become one of the highest growth industry in recent years, but analysts seem to disagree about the future of the industry. Steve Bailey of IHS iSupply Market Intelligence has indicated in his report on the online gaming industry that we may soon see a decline. Bailey cites a lack of growth in 2011, ...

UK ad uses facial recognition, scans for gender

by Nathan Pensky, February 24, 2012 | Comments

Ad for non-profit Plan UK plays different messages for men and women

We've heard of smart phones and smart televisions, but next up might be smart advertisements. One UK ad has employed facial recognition technology to deploy different messages based on whether the person standing in front of it is a man or a woman. The ad is for Plan UK, a non-profit organization that helps children in developing countries. Specifically, the ...

Twice as many Americans have Internet access since 2000

by Nathan Pensky, February 24, 2012 | Comments

New report from Nielsen/NM Incite shows increasing pervasiveness of Web, digital behavior

Nielsen and NM Incite released their first ever "US Digital Consumer Report" Thursday, and it is chock full of interesting data concerning America's continuing obsession with the digital world. And if you're doubting the ervasiveness of that obsession, you may be interested by one particular finding in the report: The number of Americans with Internet access has more than doubled ...

Americans 18-34, aka Generate C, are hyper-connected

by Nathan Pensky, February 23, 2012 | Comments

'Generation C' is 23% of US population but represent larger percentages of digital behavior

You probably heard of Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials. Well, there's a new generation in town, at least according to Nielsen and NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey company, which released their first ever "US Digital Consumer Report." Nielsen coined the term "Generation C" to describe the super-connected 18-34 American age demographic, or those "born sometime between the launch of the ...

Apple's iPad is #1 in mobile PC shipments

by Nathan Pensky, February 23, 2012 | Comments

Apple can thank the iPad for its dominance in mobile PC field, but HP is tops in PC notebooks

While we may be slowly entering a post-PC era, Apple is still moving a lot of retail units in the "mobile PC" category, according to the new "Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report" from NPD Research. Part of this may be because tablets, and therefore Apple's wildly popular iPad, technically fall under a category perhaps more easily characterized by ...

Boku debuts mobile payment service for physical stores

by Nathan Pensky, February 23, 2012 | Comments

Boku Accounts challenges mobile payment offerings from PayPal and Google

Boku Inc., an online mobile company, has announced Thursday the launch of an innovative new mobile payment service that can be used in physical stores, called Boku Accounts. With Boku's mobile near-field technology, consumers can pay for goods and services any store equipped with the Mastercard PayPass Near Field Communications (NFC) payment system. Previous to Thursday's announcement, Boku provided carrier ...

Retickr receives $1.5M funding, launches reboot

by Nathan Pensky, February 22, 2012 | Comments

Retickr's news aggregation app customizes your feed as you use it

News aggregation app Retickr has announced a series A $1.5 million funding, led by the Lamp Post Group, which had previously ponied up $150,000 of seed funding back in 2011. The Mac Desktop reader app also got an update Wenesday. Retickr functions on the idea that people don't have time to comb through scads of news sources to find what ...

Poisoned Chinese Apple workers pen letter to consumers

by Nathan Pensky, February 22, 2012 | Comments

Two Apple supply factory workers write open letter to Apple consumers, claiming harmful conditions

Apple has been catching a lot of heat in the past few months for reports that have emerged out of some of the factories in their supply chain, specifically one company in south China, called Foxconn. A string of human rights violations have come out of Foxconn, as well as disturbing reports about employees committing suicide due to unfair practices. ...

ResearchGATE receives second round of funding

by Nathan Pensky, February 22, 2012 | Comments

'Facebook for scientists' nabs undisclosed amount of funding amid rapid growth

Company founders launched ResearchGATE in February 2010 based on a simple but brilliant idea, "Facebook for scientists," a social network where people in the science and research communities could interact and share their findings like the rest of us share cat videos. Now, ResearchGATE has announced a second round of funding, lead by Founders Fund partner and PayPal co-founder Luke ...

Smule teams with Chiddy Bang for MadPad promotion

by Nathan Pensky, February 21, 2012 | Comments

Smule and rapper team up for cross promotion of album, music-making mobile app

Musical app maker Smule and digital music recording artist Chiddy Bang have teamed up to celebrate the release of the latter's new album "Breakfast" on iTunes by integrating several interesting Chiddy-centric features on Smule's MadPad app. As part of today's promotion, fans of Chiddy Bang can access interactive video clips on the MadPad app, including a remix of the group's ...

Former Zynga executive Manny Anekal joins Kiip

by Nathan Pensky, February 21, 2012 | Comments

Kiip's innovative new gaming model draws major talent from Zynga

In a major recruiting coup, online gaming company Kiip has just signed on former Zynga executive Manny Anekal as its Chief Operating Officer. Anekal was Zynga's Global Director of Brand Advertising and presided over a massive 233% increase in ad revenue, as well as spearheading the company's brand integration initiative. Anekal innovated the concept of reciprocal value between gamers and ...

How to get the most for your brand out of Pinterest

by Nathan Pensky, February 21, 2012 | Comments

Digital marketing firm Greenlight gives clues for best practices on the hottest new social network

Many people agree that the next major player in the social networking game will be Pinterest. And yet one digital marketing agency, Greenlight, is making the case that, at least in terms of brand promotion, Pinterest doesn't work in the same way as Facebook or Twitter. To make it easy for the rest of us, the makreting company has released ...

US online video viewership down slightly in January

by Nathan Pensky, February 20, 2012 | Comments

2012 was supposed to be the biggest year for online video ever, but numbers have leveled off

ComScore released their monthly report Monday, concerning trends in the viewing of online video in the United States in January 2012, and some of their findings were somewhat surprising. For instance, video viewership was down from the previous month, overall, while the average length of the videos being watched was up. 181 million users viewed over 40 billion videos online ...

'Nightline' report to go inside Apple supplier Foxconn

by Nathan Pensky, February 20, 2012 | Comments

Tuesday's 'Nightline' report will interview Foxconn employees about suicides and poor conditions

Apple's shadowy manufacuting supplier, Foxconn of southern China, will be getting a close-up come this Tuesday, when a special ABC Nightline news report will go inside one of the Apple supplier's factories for a in-depth look. As a part of ongoing efforts by Apple to purge the sketchy reputation surrounding its main supplier, Apple invited ABC's Nightline correspondent Bill Weir into ...

Barnes & Noble to debut cheaper Nook Tablet

by Nathan Pensky, February 20, 2012 | Comments

February 22 will see the release of a Nook Tablet priced to compete with the Kindle Fire

Amazon's super-inexpensive Kindle Fire has dominated the e-reader space since it was released last year. However, Barnes & Noble will release a new cheaper version of their Nook On February 22 to challenge Amazon, according to one report. The new Nook Tablet will have only 8GB, the same amount of memory as the Kindle Fire, and half as much as ...

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