3,997 Models: Android F...

Over the past six months, the folks at OpenSignalMaps have been keeping tabs on the devices that have been downloading their network monitoring app, and so far they’ve recorded downloads onto 681,900 separate Android devices in 195 countries. Now they’ve taken all that data...

Firefox For Android Bet...

Mozilla was late to the mobile revolution and is still playing catch-up with Firefox for mobile. It’s starting to look as if Firefox for Android is slowly becoming a competitive player on Google’s platform, though. Today, Mozilla is launching its most radical redesign of its...

Amazon Killed The Book ...

Authors no longer have to impress stodgy English majors to get their book a quality review: new research from the Harvard Business Review shows that the aggregate rating of Amazon reviewers are every bit as good as professional book critics. Professional book critics, on the other hand,...

Adobe’s Updated Digit...

When it comes to digital magazines, why should tablet owners have all the fun? That’s the sentiment Adobe was espousing earlier today at an event held in New York where they officially pulled back the curtains on their updated Digital Publishing Suite. You’d be forgiven if...

Keen On… Jim Steyer: ...

If anybody knows how to talk back to Facebook , it’s Jim Steyer , the founder and CEO of Common Sense Media , America’s largest and most powerful advocacy group for kids. Steyer is the author of the new book, Talking Back to Facebook: The Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in...

Three Ways Facebook Can...

Editor’s note: Hussein Fazal is CEO of AdParlor , an ad management and technology company for Facebook campaigns. AdParlor manages over 1 billion daily ad impressions on Facebook for clients such as Ubisoft, SEGA, Groupon, OMD and Starcom. I must say that I have been a little bit...

Factual Releases Three ...

Open data platform  Factual.com  is beefing up its Global Places offering today with three new APIs that will provide mobile developers with access to a ton of new data which can help them build better location-aware apps. But the company notes that the APIs’ launch will be of...

Personalized Music Vide...

Social video network Twitvid has closed another acquisition today, following  its March deal which involved bringing the team from daily deals aggregator Frugalo on board. Today, the company is announcing it has acquired Cull TV , an independent music video sharing site, which CTO John...

In First Report As A Pu...

In its first-ever earnings report as a publicly traded company, mobile advertising network Millennial Media said its net loss for the first quarter widened to $4 million  on increased costs. Revenues were up 53 percent year-over-year to $32.9 million. Millennial’s shares fell by...

Twitter Now Putting Twe...

Not content just to be your source of 140-character communications on the web, in its desktop app and on your mobile device, Twitter is now trying to creep into your email inbox. Twitter announced on its company blog Monday that it is launching an email digest, which will highlight...