Though, smartphone growth may be slowing down in some markets, the services that thrive on these devices continue to grow, raising even the growth of mobile advertising. The global mobile ad revenue for 2012 is calculated to be $8.9 billion, seeing a rise of nearly 83% on 2011′s revenues of $5.3 billion, according to the figures published by the IAB …
HTC To Continue To Use Its Metal Unibody Process For Future HTC Phones
Despite the slow production rates of HTC One, HTC is still very much committed to using the metal process it developed, for building the future HTC phones. This process was touted to be one of the reasons of the delay in the manufacture of HTC One. This played a huge role in HTC’s poor performance through the first half of 2013. Justin …
BlackBerry Suffers Yet Another Setback; Managing Director Sacked
According to The Wall Street Journal, Richard Piasentin, the US managing director of BlackBerry, has been fired and a large number of layoffs, ahead of the US sales are being planned as well. BlackBerry last 10 devices — running the company’s revamped touch-centric OS designed to challenge iOS and Android — failed to help the company turn a profit in …
Google Maps Gets A New Interface
A major update for the app, Google Maps appears in the Google Play store, sporting a revamped interface with livelier colors and new discovery features. The update hasn’t appeared on the devices yet, but Google has said that it will roll out to Android 4.0.3+ users over the next few weeks. Besides a cleaner design, the interface gives better navigational features, including …
Mattrick Had Attempted To Purchase Zynga
It was reported that the Ex-Xbox chief Don Mattrick, who is the new CEO of Zynga, had attempted Microsoft bosses to purchase Zynga, some years back. Bloomberg sources revealed that Mattrick was eyeing on Zynga during 2010, while he opened talks between Microsoft and the social games behemoth. Mattrick and previous Zynga boss Mark Pincus became friends when negotiations took …





