Amazon has launched its first mobile handset, dubbed the Fire Phone, with 3D effects, gesture controls, and a feature that detects objects and digital media purchasable (preferably) from Amazon’s online stores.
Amazon has been teasing a new product for weeks, and today Amazon is holding a launch event to show off the fruit of their labours. Through leaks and Amazon’s own teasers the device looks to be a smartphone running a forked version of Android that re-introduces 3D to the arena and likely brings Amazon’s services … [Read more…]
YouTube has attracted controversy with its new music subscription service, that will see artists on independent labels blocked form the site over a payment dispute.
Amazon has boasted that it tripled the number of applications on its Android app store in the last year alone, but the online retailer still siginificanly trails Google Play and the Apple App store in terms of overall downloads.
Amazon is launching a Prime Music, a streaming service available at no additional cost for Prime members, offering one million tracks to stream… compared to Spotify’s 20 million.
With the stormy IPO fading into history, ad-revenues exploding, and saturation-level use in developed markets, Facebook’s continued growth looks strong. Danny Meadows-Klue, head of Digital Strategy Consulting, explains why the big leaps in mobile are still to come, and why more brands will be adding Facebook to their media plans.
Google is mulling a bid for home security system DropCam as the internet giant continues to expand into the much vaunted ‘Internet of Things’, according to a news report.
Google is reportedly mulling a bid for Twitch for $1bn to link popular video game streaming service to its YouTube video network.
Amazon is premiering three of its first-ever original kids’ series in the UK exclusively on Prime Instant Video, as the online retail giant expands further into content production.
Regulators have given the go ahead for new rules would let content firms charge more for faster delivery of traffic to their users, in move that critics say could end ‘net neutrality’.