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Twitter is ahead of its social networking competitor Facebook in mobile advertising revenue, but that lead could reverse given Facebook's recent ad initiatives, according to new research from eMarketer. The study includes a tally of U.S. mobile advertising revenue for major companies including the c...

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission is investigating complaints by Apple that Samsung Electronics is abusing its position in wireless technology. The news, first reported by Reuters, is only eyebrow-raising because of the country in which it is occurring: South Korea is Samsung's home market. Other ...

New questions are being asked about how much accountability the crowd-funding website Kickstarter should have when things go sour. The site, launched in 2009, is a crowdsourced lending site designed to help amateur inventors, artists, innovators or organizations receive funding for their ideas. Dona...

Cellphone and smartphone users have a love-hate relationship with mobile apps. While they love the functionality and enhanced user experience they bring to the table, clearly many hate the perceived privacy intrusions, suggests a newly released report from the Pew Internet & American Life Projec...

Labor Day has come and gone, and now it's time for the big end-of-year season to begin. Expect lots of new product announcements, starting with the new Apple iPhone next week. It's all about what's new and what's coming next in wireless, telecom, television and technology. So here's a look at where ...

Facebook executives and employees must dread publicity these days. Every bit of critical news or commentary -- and there have been quite a few items that could be characterized as such lately -- seems to send the share price downward. The latest push apparently came on Monday from a negative article...

Many U.S. government agencies seeking to utilize cloud-based information technology have tilted to one of the most common IT functions as a beginning step -- email systems. Converting existing email operations to cloud-based platforms became much easier for all federal agencies on Aug. 30, when GSA ...

Nokia on Tuesday introduced a new music app that provides U.S. Lumia handset owners access to its free streaming music service. "Nokia Music," as it is called, offers more than 150 different playlists, which are reportedly compiled by a team of music experts. In addition to the range of genres provi...

The great patent showdown expected to eventually take place between Apple and Google in some courtroom, somewhere, may never happen. The two companies are reportedly in talks on a range of intellectual property issues, in particular their differences over mobile patents. To date, the talks have cons...

Engaging the customer has always been fundamental to doing good business. It's just that now that engagement often starts in digital, social media realms. The trick is to figure out how to make one's content as interesting as all the other content that shows up in the newsfeed, and this is where soc...

There has been a lot of hype about mobile payments, especially last year, with executives proclaiming adoption to be a rapidly growing trend. While we know that consumers are using their mobile devices to access information on the Internet, are they actually using them to shop? The idea of purcha...

Twitter is rolling out new ad-targeting capabilities that will allow marketers to identify and send messages to consumers based on their interests or likes. So, a consumer who has indicated an interest in gardening would be shown ads for gardening and outdoor-living products. There are two different...

What is the best way to market cloud IT services to the federal government? Any way you can. U.S. government agencies share the same goal: Under a White House mandate, all agencies must give priority to cloud configurations for IT projects. With all agencies pursuing the same "cloud first" goal, mar...

Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers and Simon & Schuster have agreed to pay a total of more than $69 million to consumers to resolve antitrust claims of alleged unlawful conspiracy to fix the prices of electronic books. The three companies further agreed to change the way their e-books...

It has been clear for some time that consumers are using multiple devices to access the same content. Sometimes they will access a particular piece or type of content only from a mobile device -- say, a website optimized for mobile news while commuting to work on public transportation. Sometimes th...