A new report from technology research firm Strategy Analytics suggests that Microsoft, helped by handset partners Samsung, HTC and Nokia, will see increased sales of smartphones running its Windows Phone...

Read More: Report: Windows Phone sales to top 14 million in Western Europe during 2012

AT&T today announced its third-quarter financials, demonstrating earnings that met analyst forecasts and exceed expectations in regards to wireless subscriptions, but also declared that as of October 18, the company...

Read More: AT&T activated over 1 million iPhone 4S handsets in four days

Hot on the heels of an acquisition of Boulder-based Lijit Networks, advertising powerhouse Federated Media has just announced a new partnership with WordPress.com, opening the floodgates to 25 million WordPress.com...

Read More: Federated Media lands WordPress.com’s 25 million blogs in advertising deal

Mobile app Path is helping people share things and moments in context. Dave Morin, CEO and Co-Founder of Path, says the company is focusing on sharing intimate details about friends...

Read More: Dave Morin announces that Path is closing in on 1 million users

Apple announced its Q4 earnings call earlier today, beating its own estimates but falling slightly shy of the ‘industry estimates' in revenue and iPhone sales. During the earnings call, Apple...

Read More: Apple’s Q4: 6 million Lion downloads, over 3M iPod touches, 180M iBooks sold, 77.5M Store visits

Men have one; professionals have one, so why shouldn’t scientists have one? Sciencia.org launches new social network for scientists.


Read More: Sciencia — A Scientist’s Social Network with 1.2 Million Articles

For content producers across the Internet, pageviews are the king when it comes to monetization. While there are loads of ways (beyond the not-so-simple act of having good content) to...

Read More: Scribol wants to send its network of 26 million monthly viewers to your site

Apple has announced that sales of its new iPhone 4S smartphone have exceeded 4 million units over the first weekend, adding that it saw 25 million people install iOS 5...

Read More: Apple’s first weekend iPhone 4S sales surpass 4 million

Samsung has announced that combined sales of its popular Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones have topped 30 million units worldwide, with both devices breaking company sales records since...

Read More: Samsung’s Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones top 30 million combined sales

Universal Pictures launched a first-of-its-kind experience integrated within the Facebook platform in support of the studio's upcoming action-comedy Tower Heist, starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. “Heist It Back” invites users to get their own piece of fortune worth one million credits by hunting for “Heist” buttons hidden on Facebook pages and within advertising on Facebook.


Read More: Tower Heist Movie Launches One Million Facebook Credits Mystery

Google today announced that it has seen 190 million activations of Android devices worldwide during its quarterly earnings call. Google has reported record earnings of just shy of $10 billion...

Read More: Google: 190 million Android devices activated worldwide. That’s about 576,900 a day since May

Following the opening of pre-orders for the new iPhone 4S on October 7, Apple has today announced it has sold over 1 million units of its new smartphone in 24 hours, smashing its previous single day pre-order record held by the iPhone 4, with 600,000 units. Customers in the U.S, Canada, Australia, the UK, France, [...]

Read More: Apple says iPhone 4S preorders topped 1 million in first 24 hours

Following the opening of pre-orders for the new iPhone 4S on October 7, Apple has today announced it has sold over 1 million units of its new smartphone in 24...

Read More: Apple says iPhone 4S preorders topped 1 million in first 24 hours

Twitvid, the popular online video sharing service that lets you post videos to Twitter and Facebook, announced this week that they raised $6.5 million of series B funding, led by Azure Capital Partners with participation from existing investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson.  The money will be used to help TwitVid expand and to build out their existing product offering.


Read More: Twitvid Raises $6.5 Million, Succeeds Where Others Failed

Facebook's f8 event was a big one for music streaming service Spotify. The company decided earlier this week to limit its signup to Facebook users only, which caused a bit...

Read More: Spotify gains 1 million new users from Facebook integration

One of the leading providers of enterprise social networks received $17 million in its fourth round of funding. That brings the total financing of Yammer to $57 million. The Social+Capital Partnership, a new fund established by former Facebook Vice President Chamath Palihapitiya, led the round with previous investors Charles River Ventures, Emergence Capital and U.S. Palihapitiya will have an observer’s seat on Yammer's board of directors.


Read More: Yammer Raises $17 Million as Former VP Facebook Palihapitiya Joins the Board

Facebook may be in the news and on everyone's mind because of the new Facebook Timeline, but here's a new reason to be talking about the company. Today (September 26), Facebook, the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a joint press release announcing their partnership. Their joint effort is ...

Read More: Facebook Partners Up to Help Small Businesses, Offering Up to $10 Million in Ad Credit

Facebook has teamed up with the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in an effort to help grow American small businesses and create jobs. Starting in January 2012, Facebook will give businesses up to $10 million in free Facebook advertising in the form of ad credits. The goal is to provide 200,000 businesses in the U.S. with a $50 boost.

Meanwhile, Facebook, NFIB and the U.S. Chamber will provide businesses with webinars, collateral, case studies a [...]

Read More: Facebook To Provide Up To $10 Million In Free Advertising For U.S. Businesses

The focus might still be on Facebook's new Timeline and media partnerships but today the world's largest social network has announced it wil partner with National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the...

Read More: Facebook to offer tools, resources and $10 million in Facebook Ads to boost U.S businesses

At Facebook's F8 conference today, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the network is passed an important milestone last week—500 million people used Facebook in a given day.

Facebook has publicly said that it has more than 750 million active users. But interestingly, the company has also revealed in the past that 50% of its active users log on to Facebook in any given day. While Facebook probably doesn't have 1 billion active users right now, it's more likely that more of the site's users are loggi [...]

Read More: Zuckerberg: On Peak Days, 500 Million People Are On Facebook