Amazon Commercial Takes Shots At iPad’s Price
Amazon has released a new commercial for their Kindle line of e-readers and tablets. The first part of the commercial focuses on Amazon’s standard response in the Kindle vs. iPad debate: the Kindle is easier to read in the sun. …
eTapestry Integrates with Constant Contact
The leading software platforms are those that make the most (and best) third-party integrations available to their users. Blackbaud’s fundraising software eTapestry has just announced such a platform integration, partnering with email marketing service provider Constant Contact. Through the integration, nonprofits will be able to target… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my […]
The Digital Future in Focus
Comscore released its annual report examining trends in the digital world including social media, search, online video, digital advertising, mobile and e-commerce. The 2012 U.S. Digital Future in Focus provides several key insights and highlights what these trends mean for the coming year. “2012 promises to be an exciting year for the… [[ This is […]
Jakarta Founder Institute Graduates Its Fall Batch of Startups
At the Pacific Place in Jakarta yesterday, Jakarta Founder Institute graduated its fall batch of startups. This selected crew started four months ago, in October last year, and was initially 132 registrants. That eventually got cut down to 43 participants, and yesterday only 13 students – representing eight startup ventures – survived all the assignments […]
Entrepreneurs: Go Big or Go Home
We ran a investors-meet-entrepreneurs session at Plugin @ Blk 71 as part of our Startups in Asia (Singapore) networking session last Saturday. And oh boy that was pretty fiery panel of overseas investors. They were very liberal with what they saw as cold hard truth, many of them noting that startups in Asia just are […]
Dad Shoots Daughter’s Laptop Over Facebook Post [VIDEO]
The disgruntled teenage daughter of a tech-savvy, gun-toting father just got a very public lesson in respecting one’s elders. “That rig…
Want People to Return Your Emails? Avoid These Words [INFOGRAPHIC]
Next time you write an email subject line, think twice about the words you’re using. Loading your message with words such as “confirm,R…
Linking to Lowes.com? Better Get Permission First
Don’t link to Lowes.com unless you have the time to fax a license request to them. Ars Technica has found that Lowes.com has a ridiculous policy on linking to them. They require that Web sites that link to them must …
Mobile Internet Doubling In Usage
Mobile web is such a great convenience, what with being able to easily and quickly access information, often faster than that of high-speed or broadband on most PC’s or laptops. According to StatCounter.com, mobile internet usage has sky-rocketed up to …
Google Update Highlights Freshness
Google recently announced several new search quality highlights that were rolled out in January. Perhaps more than any other "theme" from this round of updates, however, freshness seems to be the focus. Google has essentially made several adjustments/updates to the freshness algorithm it released back in November. While these… [[ This is a content summary only. […]
Doubling AOV with Behavioral Commerce
The more you know about your customers, the better positioned you are to sell them products – and sell more in general. Online hat retailer Hats in the Belfry can apparently attest to that. The internet retailer selected retargeting and behavioral commerce platform Steelhouse, an Ad-Tech Innovation award winner, and saw its average order… [[ […]
VCotton Wants to Knock Your Socks Off. And Sell You New Ones
There are a lot of specialist e-commerce sites in China, but VCotton perhaps takes the award for focusing on such a niche area that it’s practically selling only one product: socks. OK, it has leggings and panties/shorts as well, for both men and women, so it’s oriented more towards underwear; the kind of stuff that […]
Japan’s Social Giants: Trends in User Numbers [CHART]
There have been a flurry of financial reports over the past week, giving us insight not only into whether or not companies are profiting, but also how they are growing – and in the case of GREE, DeNA, and Mixi, fighting for the the attention of users. I’d prefer not to compare their users directly, […]
Today’s Top Stories: Sprint’s iPhone Sales, Amazon’s Deal With Viacom
Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world…
Paul McCartney’s Next Performance Is Coming to You Live, and for Free, on iTunes
Ever since The Beatles and Apple kissed and made up in 2007, Apple products and its fans can’t seem to get enough of the fab four and its…