Last week Google announced that Googlebot-Mobile now crawls with a smartphone user-agent in addition to the previous feature phone users-agents. The information crawled will be used in mobile search to improve user experience. The new crawler will optimize content displayed on smartphones where it is specifically made for smartphones. more…
Archive: December, 2011
B2Betrader.com provides a free outlet for businesses to sell, buy, trade, and barter used equipment or services with ease. This classified site offers a perfect, one-stop shop for those who are looking to begin a new business, expand an old one, or just hoping to sell unwanted equipment. more…
Tis the season for top 10 lists. I guess I’m playing right into the cliche. However instead of looking back at “best of” fodder, I recently decided to partake in some forward looking speculation – what us analysts do best (or worst).
What can we expect in mobile and local in 2012? more…
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi investor with stakes in Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Citigroup Inc. (C), and his investment company agreed to buy a $300 million stake in Twitter Inc., the microblogging service with about 100 million users.
The agreement to acquire a “strategic stake” in Twitter more…
Briefly…The Naspers owned MIH Internet Africa has announced that the local resources at its online classifieds start-up, Kalahari Ads, will be consolidated with international resources available via OLX, another Naspers owned entity operating one of the world’s fastest growing online classified platforms. This move is a bid to grow Naspers’ online classifieds footprint more…
For the first time, the Facebook for Android mobile app has eclipsed the daily active user count of Facebook for iPhone. The Android app launched in September 2009 more than a year after its iPhone sister and has been playing catch-up ever since. Both are developed internally by Facebook. This week the two were briefly tied, but the Android app is now pulling away with 58.3 million DAU compared to the iPhone app’s 57.4 million, more…
Google has launched a series of new rich media ad formats, designed to engage tablet and mobile users. Consumers “have higher expectations of ads on tablets, believing they should be more interactive and touch screen friendly,” they said in a Google Mobile Ads blog post announcing the new ads. more…
Google’s Android Market has delivered its 10 billionth application download, and is in the midst of celebrating with 10 days of special promotions during which selected apps will be offered for 10 cents.
The milestone comes just five months after the 6 billionth download, and Google estimates that current Android Market transactions total over 1 billion a month. more…
