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There appears to be a new trend emerging in the enterprise mobile engagement space, according to OpenMarket Increasingly, its enterprise customers are adapting its platform to use SMS in new ways, said Tim Fujita Yuhas, the company's director of product management....
Uber Senior Vice President of Business Emil Michael last week said, in comments he apparently thought were off the record, that the company should consider hiring a team of opposition researchers to investigate the personal lives of journalists who reported negatively on the company. ...
Nov. 11 is Singles Day in China -- aka the "11.11 Shopping Festival" -- and the country's millions of unhitched celebrated the event by spending some quality time with online retail giant Alibaba. So far, the event has generated US$9.3 billion in sales and 278 million orders shipped, the retailer reported. Slightly less than half, or 43 percent of...
Texting while driving is dangerous. We know that intuitively; we know it because the statistics say so; we know it because we have seen any number of public service announcements warning of its hazards. A whopping 98 percent of respondents in a recent survey of people who text at least once a day acknowledged the danger of texting while driving --...
Monster Worldwide last week announced that it was rolling out a beta of a social recruitment ad platform, starting this Thursday Monster Social Ads uses Twitter's Ads API to serve tailored job listings to Twitter users, based on career attributes such as occupation or industry type....
Google is in the early stages of developing a nanoparticle-covered pill to detect cancer and other serious health problems such as heart disease, according to Andrew Conrad, head of the life sciences team at Google X, who revealed the project last week at The Wall Street Journal's WSJDLive conference The pill would work in tandem with a wearable ma...
Apple's debut of Apple Pay has been more than a little bumpy, and the company may be in for some additional negative press about its competitive position before the dust settles. However, there is one major factor in Apple's favor that could help it win the mobile payments tug-of-war in the end: time. ...
Facebook has been meeting with publishers to discuss better ways of collaborating, according to an article published this week in The New York Times Facebook apparently wants to implement a more seamless way for mobile users to access news and magazine articles, as well as other content developed for digital sites, directly from their News Feed.
Tactile, developer of the free mobile enterprise app Tact for Salesforce CRM, has debuted Tact Premium, a paid version with ramped-up functionality. The company showed off the new version earlier this month during Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce show....
Amazon on Thursday posted a net loss of US$437 million for the third quarter, or 95 cents per diluted share. For the same period in 2013, it posted a net loss of $41 million, or 9 cents per diluted share. Amazon had warned shareholders when it reported its bleak second quarter performance in July that the next quarter would be equally grim. Howeve...
Shortly after Apple Pay's Monday launch, some eager early users were unsettled to see duplicate charges on their accounts. Apple Pay lets iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus users store credit card information on their devices and then pay for products using tap-to-pay terminals in stores, or via apps when shopping online.
Aviso, a two-and-a-half-year old startup, has launched its first product, Aviso Insights. It is a sales forecasting analytics tool that uses machine learning and portfolio management frameworks to help sales managers answer a fundamental question: What deals can I expect to close this quarter? The application has a mix of features that allow a man...
Whisper, an app that purports to send messages anonymously, has been tracking the location of its users, including those who have turned off their geolocation feature, The Guardian reported last week. Even more incendiary than the location-tracking accusation, The Guardian also alleged that Whisper has identified smartphones used at military bases...
Facebook and Apple, companies already known for their generous employee benefits, are raising the bar even more by paying for egg-freezing services for their female employees. Facebook began covering up to US$20,000 in these expenses at the start of the year, and Apple will beginning covering them at the start of next, NBC News reported this week.
AppMesh, a 2-year old provider of a mobile CRM application, recently came out of the gate with the second iteration of its flagship product, SalesMesh. Version 2.0 is a major leap in functionality for the app that builds on the cofounders' vision of developing a personal sales system for the sales rep. "CRM has made a lot of advances over the year...
Shine Technologies, an Israeli startup with an office in Sunnyvale, California, may well upend the Net neutrality issue with the launch of AdSight, an ad technology product in development. AdSight will allow wireless carriers to monitor the ads being delivered over their pipes, The Wall Street Journal reported. The data provided will be very granu...
Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled Salesforce1 Lightning, a new Platform as a Service for developers to build mobile apps. Salesforce1 Lightning lets developers build apps for devices with screens of any size or format -- from the desktop to laptops, tablets, phablets, smartphones and wearables. It uses Force.com and Heroku to offer developers a s...
Private videos and pictures shared between tens of thousands of Snapchat users -- possibly as many as 200,000 -- were posted online by hackers over the weekend in an episode dubbed the "Snappening." Much of the content is sexual, including many nude photos -- some possibly of minors The hackers appear to have gone for maximum embarrassment and humi...
Verizon Wireless may be bitterly regretting the challenge Verizon made to the Federal Communications Commission's Net neutrality rules a few years ago. There's little doubt competing wireless providers are Verizon in 2010 sued the FCC over the rules it had put in place mandating that ISPs treat all Internet data the same. The D.C. Circuit Court of ...
Facebook on Tuesday further opened its Audience Network to third-party developers and publishers. It debuted the platform in April, positioning it as a mobile monetization tool that would leverage Facebook's 1.5 million advertisers and the millions of users who sign into apps using their Facebook credentials The platform is now available to develop...
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