New data show that half China's smartphones are now running Android. Altogether, the country's smartphone penetration sits at around 42 percent.
According to Kantar Worldpanel's report, Android had captured 51.4 percent of China's smartphone market by the end of March 2013. iOS remains behind Symbian with 19.9 percent market share; Symbian claims 23 percent, a figure that is in decline.
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In our previous post, Find Out What Your Community Wants, we discussed how to discover the wants and needs of your community.
In this post, we talk about ways to manage your community and go over some of the key tasks to remember.
Your social media community may run itself, but it’s not going to manage itself. You are going to need a community manager, someone who’s responsible for the care and feeding of your community.
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Bro, no one is going to fund your Mr. Potatohead iPad case. There, I said it.
Kickstarter has just launched a new feature to let you get feedback (like the gem above) from your friends before you submit your Kickstarter project to the Kickstarter gods.
Called Project Preview, this feature will let you create a preview link for your trusted friends, family, or other advisors.
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Okay Empire Avenue Community... this is going to be a big update.
We have not made substantial changes to how Share Prices are calculated or Earnings and Dividend calculations for over two years. In the next week we will change many of our "Market Makers". There is no easy or small way to do this, it will affect everyone and we will do all the changes in one go.
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Apple's in the top 10 for the first time ever, Facebook hits the list, and Dell sells more than Google as Fortune Magazine released its Fortune 500 companies today, ranking the top 500 companies by global income.
Notable this year is Apple, with its whopping $156 billion in 2012 sales, jumping into the top 10 for the first time in its 37-year history.
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For America to maintain its fragile role as the most innovative nation on earth, it must perpetually attract the world's best and brightest. There will always be trailblazing engineers who stay in their home country, leaving the United States one notch below its potential. Yet, on the heels of comprehensive immigration reform, a new viral economic study claiming that there is no tech talent shortage has skewed the national discussion over why we need to aggressively attract high-skilled immigrants in the first place.
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Careers-focused social network LinkedIn shook investors' confidence today when it issued a weak guidance.
As we reported, LinkedIn's Q1 2013 performance was decent but trailed analysts' expectations. Members of the press responded to the lower-than-expected revenues by questioning the company's capability to sell advertising on mobile.
And with LinkedIn failing to meet inflated revenue expectations, recent buyers hit the "sell" button in after-hours trading, sending shares down more than $20 at one point from a record close of $201.67 a share earlier today.
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