Last week it was revealed that current Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson had falsified his résumé, by including a degree in computer science that he never earned. The man who dug up this piece of dirt was hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, whose firm Third Point owns a 5.8% shareholding in Yahoo! and who has been … Read more

Over the weekend Facebook bought another mobile social app, this time a product called Glancee. One of the leading apps in a very new category known as “ambient location,” Glancee and its main competitor Highlight were the most talked about apps at this year’s SXSW Interactive conference in March. Highlight won the popularity contest amongst … Read more

Today, the latest Android challenge to Apple’s iPhone was announced: Samsung’s Galaxy S III. Android is the only other smartphone OS competitive with Apple’s iOS and over 2011, Samsung established itself as the world’s leading vendor of Android-based devices. The predecessor of the Galaxy S III, the II model, was widely considered to be the … Read more

The latest trend in smartphone apps is social video. That’s because ever since Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 Billion, attention has focused on video sharing apps and whether one of them will win the next Zuckerberg lottery. The two leading contenders are Socialcam and Viddy. ReadWriteWeb’s Alicia Eler profiled those two apps, along with a … Read more

Earlier this week, we reviewed how mainstream social networks are being used to track the things you care about – such as art, baseball or cooking. Our conclusion was that Twitter is the best way to do this currently, because it’s easy to track topics and converse with other people about them. Google+ has some … Read more

Yesterday we discussed the trend of beautiful apps and websites in 2012. It’s an increasingly Visual Web and great design is a key part of getting attention nowadays. We put the call out over social media to find out your favorite examples of gorgeous apps. In this post, with your help, we’ve listed 10 examples … Read more

A noticeable trend this year is beautiful apps or websites. It’s all part of a larger trend that I’m calling The Visual Web, meaning that images and video are becoming an increasingly important part of what we consume online. Pinterest is the best example of that larger trend. But by “beautiful apps or websites,” I’m … Read more

Do you use Google+ more than Facebook? Are you an avid Twitter user, but not so active on Google+? Do you auto-share online media, such as songs or news articles, onto Facebook? These are just some of the questions being asked in the ongoing evolution of the “Interest Graph,” succinctly defined by software engineer Adam … Read more

“PINTEREST: Can financial services firms use this new platform effectively?” That was the subject line of an email in my inbox this morning. It came from Corporate Insight, a financial services consulting firm. The email went on to note that “Pinterest values imagery over text and incorporates many social aspects of Twitter and Facebook to … Read more

The tech IPO is back in fashion, with the likes of Facebook, LinkedIn and GroupOn dominating the headlines over the past year. One of the lesser known technology brands to have gone public is Splunk, a company hyped by its CEO Godfrey Sullivan as “the Google of Big Data.” Splunk debuted on the Nasdaq last … Read more

Today, April 20, marks the 9th birthday of ReadWriteWeb. Much has changed since 2003! The World Wide Web was not very mobile or social back then. There were no smartphones or mobile Internet (and no I don’t consider WAP as proper Internet!). There was no Facebook, or even MySpace. Twitter was a few years away. … Read more

So far in our series on car connectivity, we’ve focused on infotainment systems. It’s early in the evolution of Internet services in vehicles and up till now, it’s been all about information and entertainment. Early in-car apps have focused on music, navigation and news. The next generation of in-car apps will be about providing “smart” … Read more

On the face of it, the statistics are impressive: 20 million registered users and 2 billion check-ins. But as location check-in app Foursquare celebrates 4sqDay (16 April = 4 squared, geddit?), how many people still regularly use the service? After all, manually checking in to places is going out of fashion isn’t it? Aren’t next … Read more

One of the more intriguing aspects of Instagram’s $1 billion payday from Facebook is that photo sharing was Plan B. Compare that to the other social startup darling of 2012, Pinterest, which has stayed true to its original mission from Day 1. Are there any lessons to be gleaned from this? Which one should you … Read more

Shazam is one of the most popular smartphone apps of all time. Most people know it as that clever app that “listens” to a song and identifies the name of it. Today Shazam released the fifth major version of its iPhone app. But what’s more interesting is Shazam’s increasing focus not on music… but television. … Read more