ComiXology Announces 65M Downloads, Inks Exclusive Multi-year Deal With Marvel To Distribute Digital Comics

ComiXology Announces 65...

Comics on the iPad. A match made in nerd heaven, right? Well, today it gets even better with the announcement that ComiXology and Marvel Entertainment have entered into a multi-year deal that sees the former exclusively distributing the latter’s digital catalog of English language...

Evine: Former HSN CEO T...

For over a decade, if you were to say “home shopping,” you were likely referring to the experience of viewing products on your TV set, and ordering over the phone. After launching in the ’80s, it wasn’t long before television networks like QVC and The Home...
Facebook to Marketers, It’s Time for a Click to Action

Facebook to Marketers, ...

Editor’s note:  Brian Solis is principal at Altimeter Group, a research-based advisory firm, and the author of “ The End of Business As Usual .” You can follow him on Twitter @ briansolis . You Like me…you really Like me. Wait. Maybe you don’t really Like...
EA Tempers Coming Layoffs With $1.2B In Digital Revs For The Year, Promise Of “Big Social Title”

EA Tempers Coming Layof...

EA’s big shift toward treating games as services instead of packaged goods is going to mean restructuring this year. Chief executive John Riccitiello said in today’s earnings call that there will be some layoffs as the company increases production of online, mobile, and...
Honeywell Fires Back At Nest In Patent Infringement Case, Denies All Accusations

Honeywell Fires Back At...

The last time the Honeywell-Nest legal scuffle appeared on our radar, upstart Nest had just lawyered up (with Apple’s former Chief Patent Counsel no less) and offered up their counterclaims to the original patent infringement suit Honeywell filed this past February . With a new...
Decline Of Reader Apps Likely Due To News Feed Changes, Shows Facebook Controls The Traffic Faucet

Decline Of Reader Apps ...

No, Facebook news reader apps aren’t declining because  users suddenly got fed up with auto-sharing. The user loss is likely due to the transition to  “trending articles” , a new way of surfacing recently read articles in the news feed that Facebook is testing....
Hachi Combines LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter & Google Into One, Lets You Search All Your Connections At Once

Hachi Combines LinkedIn...

OK, this is cool. A new networking utility called Hachi is taking some of the best functionality offered by LinkedIn (searching by name, company, title, etc. and seeing how you’re connected to other users), and is merging that with your social graphs from other services like...

LinkedIn’s Mobile Fut...

During the conference call this afternoon for their first quarter earnings , LinkedIn executives boasted about the impressive mobile growth they’re seeing. In the last week of March, the company says mobile accounted for 22 percent of unique visitors, up 8 percent from the same...

Brightcove Reports Q1 N...

Video platform Brightcove just released its first earnings report after going public in March. Brightcove posted a net loss of $4.3 million – that’s down from $5.8 million last quarter. The company’s revenue for the first financial quarter of 2012 was $19.9 million, an...
Krossover Makes Athletes, Coaches Smarter With Business Intelligence For Sports

Krossover Makes Athlete...

Anyone who’s played competitive sports knows how important stats, analysis, and post-game film are. They’re an excellent way to improve both personally and on a team level, yet it usually takes a dedicated staff to push out rich, thorough analysis. Luckily, a new startup...

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