Tag Report: ‘apps’
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Pretty in Pinterest: Beauty giant Sephora integrates pin-boards
Beauty retailer Sephora has just become one of the first retailers to fully integrate with digital pin-board Pinterest by adding a “Pin It” button to every one of its 14,000 products.
Sephora staffers will also highlight their favorite products on Pinterest pinboards. Following a meteoric rise, Pinterest is now the third most visited social network in the U.S. after Facebook and twitter. -
Social Media Alert – Instagram Deal Sharpens Facebook’s Mobile Focus
Instagram will continue to operate as an independent business under the same name. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post that the acquisition would enhance the ability of Facebook users to upload and exchange photos among family and friends.
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GrapevineStar Media SXSW – South by Southwest Alert – Social Media Startups to Watch
Last year it was “group messaging,” a trend that some might argue affected Google’s decision to emphasize “circles” in Google+. This year, its all about “social discovery,” smart technology that moves the user experience from an active “check-in” (like Foursquare) to technology that runs in the background and automatically notifies users when the situation calls for it.
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Messi, Ronaldo, Soccer, Apps, Madonna, Mobile Roadie
Christiano Ronaldo may long be known as the world’s No. 2 soccer player behind a certain midfielder for Barcelona FC, but at least now he has his own official app. Developed by self-service mobile app platform Mobile Roadie,
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Mobilizing the masses: How Facebook can transform its mobile risk into success
Among the many compelling sections of Facebook’s landmark S-1 filing last week—which included Zuck’s “The Hacker Way” founder’s letter, its $1 billion in profits last year and of course, the money spent on private jets—one area really stood out among the numbers and hyperbole. The risk, and of course on the flip side, massive opportunity, that mobile represents to the future of Facebook.
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Media & Technology Come Together at 2012 CES
The Consumer Electronics Show, held at Las Vegas Convention Center boasts 140,000 registrants. GrapevineStar Media reviews What’s Hot and Different at 2012 CES?
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GrapevineStar Trend Alert – Digital Gaming Companies Continue to Find Investors
A List Games has raised $9.3 million in a second round of seed funding so that it can continue to market games via digital distribution, the company announced today.
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Kindle Fire in Hot Demand – Bigger Version Coming in 2012
Amazon may be launching at least one larger version of the Kindle Fire in the first half of 2012
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Media Alert – ‘USA Today’ Supplements iPad Presence With Flipboard Partnership
Flipboard has been focusing on alliances with magazine brands like The New Yorker and O, The Oprah Magazine in recent months. While any media brand’s feed can be pulled into the aggregation app, which also draws popular articles from a user’s social network relationships, the featured content partners enjoy more fluid content rendering in Flipboard.
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Media Trend Alert – Marketers: Mobile Social Networking Scores With Users
Social networking applications on mobile devices rate highly for reach, frequency and time spent, according to new research from Experian Simmons that used metering technology to track usage of U.S. smartphone owners between March and July this year.
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Ad Age Digital to Explore Apps, Mobile, Social Media, Entertainment & More @ San Francisco Conference
Ad Age Digital is going west to San Francisco, taking their premiere event to the heart of the digital revolution, home of the leaders in social media and games, mobile technology and search. Their host location is the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , the date is September 20, 2011. For more info click here and GrapevineStar will see you there.
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What Makes India Hot for App Developers
Requests for programmers who write code for Apple’s iOS platform rose 20 per cent in the second quarter, according to Mountain View, California-based Elance. Demand for programmers with Android skills rose by 15 per cent, while developer requests for Research In Motion Ltd ( RIM)’s Blackberry devices increased by 3 per cent, according to the company.
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GrapevineStar Games Alert – Google+ Gets Game On; Zynga SEC Filing Points To Millions In Revenue
GrapevineStar Game Alert – Google+ gave its more than 25 million users another reason to stick around — and perhaps lure some of Facebook’s 750 million members to jump on board. The social network, launched in June, introduced a casual game platform. The competition is on for the Social Games Wars between Google and Facebook
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Trend Alert – Featured Company InSide Network, Facebook Platform and Social Gaming Focused
GrapevineStar salutes InSide Network, Inside Network is a trndforward company focused on the Facebook platform and the social gaming ecosydtem. GrapevineStar joins them in the support of the facebook platform and social gaming ecosystem by developing and managing intellectual properties designed for Facebook and for social gaming
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Trend Alert – Businesses Get Serious About Apps
As we move into the balance of the year, look for more business apps. This trend will pick up steam as we move into 2011. Business tasks being taken on by apps include consumer and trade research, sales and marketing. As the mobile devices expand and become more powerful companies will develop apps for internal [...]
