For traditional publishers trying to find their place in the 21st century, digital media is both a blessing and a curse. The blessing: incredible opportunities to reach their audiences across channels, building stronger relationships in the process. The curse: digital has upended huge parts of the revenue models that kept them flush with cash in...Read More

‘Big data’ has become a big buzzword in the tech community over the past year, and for good reason: technology has made it possible for companies to collect massive amounts of information and analyze it in ways that were never before possible. To Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, big data is so important that...Read More

Facebook’s privacy woes continue. This week a man harvested and published the profile details of 100 million Facebook users. If that weren’t bad enough, he then made the file available for free download. You’d think that a lot of companies would be interested in acquiring such data. And you’d be right. But this is less...Read More

Comscore today reported that U.S. mobile Web usage has reached 30 percent of mobile subscribers. This is out of a total 234 million mobile subscribers age 13 and up. The Q1 mobile market data also breaks down user activities and market shares for OEMs and carriers. For OEMs, Samsung is in the lead but there’s...Read More

Two recent studies this week underscore a trend obvious not only to smartphone owners (a segment rapidly achieving dominance in the mobile phone market), but also to those early adopters of Kindles, iPads and the like. What matters in mobile is the data, not the vox. comScore found that in the three month period ending...Read More