Is a cheaper, ad-supported Kindle Fire on the way?
Amazon is reportedly trying to sell ads that would appear on the Kindle Fire's welcome screen, at prices of at least $600,000 for a two-month campaign. Does that mean a cheaper, ad-supported Kindle Fire is coming soon?
Verizon’s Redbox service: more Netflix than TV Everywhere
Speaking at an investor conference Wednesday, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said his company's joint venture with Coinstar's Redbox will seek to leverage the DVD-rental kiosk operator's 30 million customers and not so much on Verizon FiOS' nearly 4.4 million customers.
PRO: The quantified self: hacking the body for better health
The quantified-self movement is a community of individuals deploying mobile health applications, fitness trackers and social media platforms to share information on their health behaviors. It's an important movement to watch, as its growth has huge potential implications for the health care sector's future evolution.
Social gaming to gambling: states inch forward
When will the floodgates open? It feels like an eternity that the casino industry and makers of games like Zynga Poker have been waiting for states to flip a legal switch that will let them turn virtual gaming into real gambling.
Betting big on live sports data, Perform lays €120 million on RunningBall
Fresh from its IPO, the increasingly good-looking online sports video and betting outfit Perform is buying big to add live match data to its services.
JibJab sues White Castle over social media campaign
Humor site JibJab doesn't think White Castle's animation is very funny, and has filed a lawsuit to stop the fast food chain from using its name to promote "chicken rings" on Facebook.
Japan’s Docomo buying mobile content powerhouse Buongiorno for €224 million
Japan's largest mobile telco is about to buy in to mobile media content in Europe and farther afield, by acquiring one of the space's pioneer companies.
Carriers, policy groups join up to (sort of) stop Verizon-cable deal
T-Mobile, Sprint, rural operatorsPublic Knowledge have teamed up to create a mobile version of the Super Friends, their sole mission to battle the Verizon-cable Legion of Doom, but they can’t seem to agree on exactly how they would plan to oppose their new sworn enemies.
PRO: Microsoft raises bar for social search
Microsoft has balanced social search integration without compromising core results far better than Google has demonstrated. Bing represents social done well, and it could lead to minor market share [...]
Streamed music chart has short long tail, more Rihanna than Rita
The UK's current best-selling single is nowhere to be seen in the first ever dedicated streaming music chart - but, elsewhere, anomalies are harder to spot.
2009 Study On Facebook Engagement Holds True
Engagement is social media’s new hot-button metric. But much remains unknown as to how to most actively engage whatever fan base there is and how to split resources between furthering engagement and expanding the network.
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Open Meeting Protocol and the structure of emergent collaboration
Last week I had an early evening meeting set up with Indy Johar, the inspiring co-founder of Hub Westminster. When I arrived I found that Indy had invoked an ‘Open Meeting Protocol’, offering £10 to Matt Sevenoaks of KPMG to join the meeting, who in turn invited Shelley Kuipers, the CEO of Chaordix, who as
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