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One in Four Teens Uses a Cellphone to Get Online
Teens have been the most voracious online users for years. What’s changed in the past year is that they’re increasingly accessing the Internet on the go (thank Apple for that). A Pew Research Center...
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Hispanics Are the Most Digitally Savvy Group
There is no doubt the digital media universe continues to shift and evolve with the constant introduction of new platforms and ways for consumers to engage. Marketers looking for a massive demographic...
View ArticleAOL Earnings Solid as Company Tries to Reinvent Itself
AOL posted solid first-quarter earnings today as it continues its turnaround. The media company's brand business is on somewhat shaky footing as AOL continues to profit mostly from a declining dial-up...
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Marc Maron Talks About Tracking Down an Internet Troll
SpecsWho Marc MaronAge 49New gig Star, writer, producer of the new IFC series MaronContinuing gig Host of the podcast WTF With Marc MaronHow did the idea to do a scripted show come about? I’ve been a...
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Your Kids Have the Same Media Habits as You Do
When it comes to technology, you don't stand a chance against your kids. Born into a digital world, tweens—those age 7-13—have unprecedented access to devices and gadgets. Half of 10- to 13-year-olds...
View ArticleBig Cable Offering Producers Incentives to Stay Off the Web
Time Warner Cable and other pay-TV operators are offering incentives to producers to withhold content from Internet services, Bloomberg reported. Bloomberg's unnamed sources said the incentives take...
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The Lawmaker's Internet Trick or Treat
What are the worst laws threatening the Internet? NetChoice has a list for that. For the fifth year, NetChoice, a public policy organization that promotes Internet innovation, has surveyed the legal...
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The First New 7 Top-Level Domains Go Live Today
What's happening? Starting today (Jan. 29), the first seven of hundreds of new generic top-level Web domains—the suffixes that appear to the right of the dot in a domain name address—will go live on...
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Comcast Extends Low-Cost Internet Program Indefinitely
Few companies can compare with Comcast when it comes to greasing the wheels of Washington to get a deal cleared. Less than a month after it announced a $45 billion deal to acquire Time Warner Cable,...
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GoGo Takes Texting Into the Skies Over SXSW
“Hi Mom, I’m calling from 10,000 feet!” GoGo took its SXSW marketing to new heights, shall we say, showing off technology that will bring texting to commercial air travel. The airplane Internet service...
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U.S. to Turn Over Control of the Internet
The United States will begin a process to relinquish its administrative control over of key function of the Internet by September 2015, federal officials said late this afternoon. Since the Internet...
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Beats Music Uses Sound Headphone Marketing Strategies
Beats Music’s announcement that in its first month of offering streaming music it signed up 1,000 subscribers a day is very impressive, but not surprising. The streaming music business is very...
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14 Digital Trends on Kleiner Perkins' Venture Capital Radar
Snapchat and WhatsApp both account for 700 million photos shared daily. The average Google user is six times more valuable than the average Facebook user. Buzzfeed is big on Facebook but not as big on...
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Comcast Apologizes for Customer Service Call From Hell
Cable giant Comcast says it's sorry for the unusual inconvenience it caused AOL vp of product Ryan Block during a 20-minute phone call where he somewhat painfully tried to disconnect his service while...
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Brands Try to #BreakTheInternet by Jumping on Kim Kardashian's Nude Cover Photo
Kim Kardashian's derrière was too much to resist today, as everyone including brands tried to break the Internet by commenting on her famously curvaceous backside. The star posed nude and slicked in...
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