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The Nielsen Company released a new mobile research report this morning, with at least one big landmark stat within: over the past 3 months, Android has pulled in over twice as many new smartphone buyers as the iPhone.

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According to a new Beet.TV interview with Kevin McGurn, VP of Sales for Hulu, Hulu is blowing television advertising out of the water.  McGurn says that advertisers on Hulu are seeing double the return, compared to the ad load on television.


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Back in Skype's early days, it was adding users so fast that it liked to boast that it was "the fastest growing, globally available communications tool in history." Well, by at least one measure (registered users 9 months after launch), mobile video chat service Tango is outpacing Skype. Tango now has 17 million registered users across both Apple and Android devices, only 9 months after it launched. By comparison, Skype celebrated 9 million users on its first birthday back in 2004.

Today, [...]

Read More: With 17M Registered Users, Tango Is Growing Twice As Fast As Skype Did Its First Year

This guest post is by Greg McFarlane. If there are already 100,000 posts out there that express a particular viewpoint, what’s the point of adding a 100,001st? Look for a different angle. If you can’t find one, then resist the temptation to rehash conventional wisdom, and go unearth yourself some unrelated subject matter. When you’re [...]

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