Daily Archives: October 27, 2015


messaging If you’re a consumer-brand marketer, you’ve no doubt given thought to running a marketing campaign or having a presence on a mobile messaging app. After all, every consumer is increasingly using mobile messaging as their portal to mobile. It’s sticky and lends itself to repeat sessions, boasting the highest retention and engagement rates of other apps on average. So if… Read More

Mobile Messaging For Marketers 101


Screen Shot 2015-10-27 at 5.17.53 PM During Twitter’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey let us know that the company would be running a new TV commercial during the World Series. As The Verge points out, this commercial was done by the same group that did Apple’s 1984 campaign. While it’s not the first commercial by Twitter, it does look like the beginnings of an actual “campaign.” Twitter’s… Read More

Twitter Hopes To Appeal To A Younger Crowd With This ...



apple-bank-vault Heists used to be so much effort — you’d need a gang, machine guns, a getaway car and long, meticulous planning. Nowadays, all you need is a couch, a laptop and some stolen data. When the barrier to entry is so low, it’s no surprise that online fraud is a huge problem. In fact, according to the authoritative annual True Cost of Fraud report from LexisNexis/Javelin Group,… Read More

Why Apple Pay Is Our Best Hope To Stop Online ...




jack dorsey During Twitter’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey was joined by COO Adam Bain and CFO Anthony Noto. The call was broadcasted live on Periscope for the second straight time. Watching @jack LIVE on #Periscope: Twitter Q3'15 Earnings Conference Call https://t.co/OmEWUr78SE pic.twitter.com/SysY6zGtwA — drew olanoff (@drew) October 27, 2015 Growth didn’t appease Wall… Read More

Dorsey: “Twitter Is Getting Easier To Use Every Single Week,” ...


AppleEvent_2015_42 Apple is reporting its third-quarter earnings after the bell this afternoon. This will be the first quarter where the company’s new iPhones have been on sale — though only for a few weeks or so. Nevertheless, Apple’s earnings reports are always huge news for the company’s stock, which has basically gone back to where it started at the beginning of the year in recent… Read More

Apple Q4 Earnings Live Blog




twitter project glacier The all-important topic for Twitter, and the one that Wall Street is eyeing the closest, is whether the company can scrounge up some new users to join the service. Yep, growth. This quarter last year, the company reported 284M monthly active users. Wasn’t pretty. Last quarter the company reported 316M active users to which then-interim-CEO Jack Dorsey said “we are not… Read More

Twitter Sputters To 320M Monthly Active Users, Stock Drops Over ...



Screen Shot 2015-10-27 at 12.02.22 PM Google wants you to be able to consume more, and faster, which is why they built the OnHub router that they announced in August. We were a bit surprised by the move, but not shocked, with Google saying it wanted to “give you Wi-Fi that’s fast, secure, and easy to use.” Today, Google and ASUS announced that they’re working together on a version of OnHub which will run… Read More

Google And ASUS Team Up On A Router With A ...


fb-messenger-hello Someone might want you to call them, but if you don’t have their random string of digits, you can’t. And you could miss something extremely important if a person you’ve never met really needs to reach you. Facebook Messenger has a plan to fix all that. And it’s born from the ashes of one of the social network’s worst products ever. No More Missed Connections… Read More

Facebook Messenger Wants To BE Your Phone Number With New ...