Category: Mobile
Foursquare passes 3 Million user registrations
Mobile based social network, Foursquare has now passed 3 million user registrations globally. Whilst Foursquare’s popularity in Australia has not grown significantly over the past couple months, the USA and Europe continue to lead the way with new user signups. Its estimated that around 16,000 people join the mobile service each day now. It is […]
Read More | ShareApple iAD’s live in Australia, incorporating Google ads
Whilst we haven’t heard much from Apple on the iAD advertising platform lately – if you use international applications on your iPhone in Australia you will notice some of then now have iAD’s. I noticed Echofon (Twitter client), has put ads at the top of the screen near the search button – possibly getting people […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Places VIDEO
Facebook has created a video on their new Geolocation feature – Facebook places. The tools aims at ‘connecting’ friends when they are out and about. Facebook also goes on to say that more and more people are going to use geo-location apps like this. Facebook is making a pitch to become even more of a […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Launches Location Features – Facebook Places
Facebook has now officially launched their own Geo-location app inside Facebook – Facebook places. The Facebook iPhone application has been updated however when you go to click ‘Places’ it says the function in not available in our area yet. This is exciting stuff and may pose a real threat to Foursquare. It will be exciting […]
Read More | ShareMobile Search Market Share, July 2010 [STATS]
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Pingdom.com has recently conducted a random study of mobile users and their searching behaviour. Google currently has 98.29% market share in mobile search. The shares by Yahoo and Bing in comparison are minimal. Apple devices are probably contributing to around half the Google traffic being generated. Here is the graph from Pingdom. Bing and Yahoo […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Mobile Search and Ads Growing Rapidly in 2010
Not only has the volume of Google mobile search more than quintupled over the last two years, but the clickthrough rate for its click to call mobile ads are 6-8% better than ads on search without a number or URL associated with it according to Mike Steib, director of the new platforms at Google. Steib, […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Mobile Internet Usage, July 2010
Almost half of Australian mobile phone users have own an internet-enabled phone, however only a third go on the internet regularly. Australian mobile internet phone ownership now sits at 43 per cent. 29 per cent regularly are using the internet to search, email, find maps and social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn etc. […]
Read More | ShareBarbie Joins Foursquare as Celebrity Guest
Barbie doll has joined Foursquare (and also Twitter) so promote the new Video Girl ambition Barbie. This new Barbie will be able to record video which you can download and edit on your computer + all the original things Barbie can do. Barbie will be a celebrity Foursquare user to entice location-based scavenger hunts. These […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare Founders walk away with $4.6 million from VC funding
In the second round of Venture Capitalist funding, Foursquare Co-Founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai have walked away with $4.6 million USD jointly from the $20 million given. Foursquare has said the founders sold shares so that investors could buy more. This allowed the Venture Capitalist to reach their desired equity level in the company. […]
Read More | ShareNextstop Location service acquired by Facebook
Nexstop, a mobile location service has announced they have been acquired by Facebook. NextStop is a service that lets users create and browse through local guides and recommendations. Facebook is going to be shutting down Nextstop on September 1. Users are encouraged now to export their data. So why is Facebook acquiring this company? Facebook […]
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