May 16th, 2012
Twitter has announced some new statistics, revealing that it has 140m active users globally, including 10m in the UK. That makes the UK the fourth-largest tweeting nation in the world, behind the US, Brazil...
May 16th, 2012
Facebook is on the acquisition trail again, having snapped up the development team behind Android photo-sharing app Lightbox. And yes, that’s the team rather than the app: Lightbox itself has already...
May 16th, 2012
Photo-sharing service Flickr isn’t in the doldrums, exactly, but it certainly hasn’t been acquired by Facebook for $1bn. Why did the Yahoo subsidiary miss out on becoming the first huge mobile...
May 15th, 2012
Alright, another iOS 6 rumour, but this is one that would directly impact on the many photo-sharing startups that have been making hay on the App Store. The Wall Street Journal is the publication doing...
May 15th, 2012
Daily deals firm Groupon has announced its latest quarterly financial results, reporting revenues of $559.3m for Q1 2012, up 89% year-on-year. The company reported operating income of $39.6m for the quarter,...
May 14th, 2012
Video-sharing app Viddy has announced a new $30m funding round, with NEA, Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures, and Battery Ventures all chipping in. The round came as Viddy passed 27m registered users, with...
May 14th, 2012
Now there’s a startup looking to provide crowdfunding just for mobile apps, called AppStori. As elsewhere, developers say how much they want to raise, with people pledging money to receive ‘customised...
May 14th, 2012
Well, mums. Yes, we’re militantly British about this kind of thing. But Nielsen’s latest research is focused on the US, where it says 54% of US mothers are using smartphones – more than...
May 11th, 2012
Letting (or even forcing) app users to sign in via Facebook is a good way to benefit from social buzz, right? Well, mobile operator Orange has offered a dissenting view, based on its experience in France...
