Original support will be limited to the music and movie apps Deezer, Fandango, Flixster, Slacker Radio, Songza, SoundCloud and TuneIn. However, the search giant plans to roll out support for more apps in the future.
In making the Now platform a feature of the Search application, however, Google is able to skirt Apple's notoriously tight restrictions on apps that compete with its own branded offerings. The company is bringing the platform to Apple's mobile...
Enhanced campaigns improvements for Google+ and mobile apps – Inside AdWordsEnhanced campaigns now automatically include social annotation (number of Google+ followers) "when they can improve ad performance", if you have recent "high-quality...
The Guardian shares more data on their reader, and it's especially interesting to see that tablet users tend to use the desktop site more than either the mobile site or the tablet apps available. The apps are the third thread of content written...
Apps integration: Including a review of emerging app-based traffic sources relevant to the line of business shows strategic thinking. Mobile optimization: Going hand in hand with local, optimized mobile landing pages are no longer optional.
A New Mobile Experience Designed for the Everyday Professional – LinkedIn BlogAndroid and iPhone apps get redesign to put more emphasis on images and personalization. Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News app is now customizable, offers...
AT thought leaders are looking at contextual targeting, and full customer management on mobile apps to put the state of mobile apps into context. Keep in mind these are not true mobile apps, rather they're actual web pages that are wrapped around...
Mobile and tablet use also continue to accelerate, while apps are pulling people away from the Internet completely. Best of the Web, a directory of all the content on the web, turns 19 on April 20. SEW spoke with BOTW president and founder Greg...
The world of mobile apps is foreign territory to most online marketers. The SEO difference for mobile apps is that the page on which the app lives is what needs to be optimized, not the app itself. Search engines don’t crawl inside mobile apps to...
The group claimed that Google favors its own apps over others, placing them in prominent places on Android phones and tablets. Last week, FairSearch Europe – a group that includes Microsost, Nokia and Oracle – launched an attack on Google for...
Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting – TechCrunchSpring cleaning boots a bunch of apps, including many of the MP3/ringtone variety. UK digital ad spend up 12.5% to £5.42bn in 2012...
Fairsearch's lead lawyer Thomas Vinje claimed that Google is using its mobile software as a "deceptive way to build advantages for key Google apps in 70 percent of the smartphones shipped today," adding that Android hardware makers have...
He describes Home as a “family of apps” that can be installed to take over the home- and lock-screen of users’ phones. The Facebook phone has arrived, or will arrive on April 12, giving the social network giant a new window into its users' mobile...
Sometimes apps are the best choice (i.e.the Google Now app) – people spend a lot of time on apps and it's growing, much more than mobile web. The need to design and deploy a next-generation site architecture that maximizes your chances of...
Also, 30 percent of people who visit ESPN via mobile web will also use ESPN for apps. So, responsive design or mobile apps? Apps on your phone are bookmarks to your life. However, only 16 percent who use them for apps, never go to website.
Insights into the performance of your mobile apps. People use multiple devices and browsers to surf the web. Last October, Google announced an initiative to help site owners better track site visitors across multiple platforms: Universal Analytics.
The creation of content in whatever form, be it books, music, images, video, apps or games for the purposes of marketing and increasing your exposure, profits and brand is far from a new one. Facebook Graph still needs to figure out its mobile app...
Apple's Unique Device Identifier (UDID) was the standard mechanism for tracking installs across mobile web and mobile apps for iOS. Cookies cannot be shared across apps or shared between a mobile app and the mobile web.
Doesn't this selection of websites closely correspond with many of the apps on your smartphone or tablet? But perhaps more significantly, it wasn't just that they consumed more content overall – in many instances those who used mobile devices...
Google Keep can be downloaded now on devices running Android 4.0 and higher for free, and there's no word yet on iOS, Windows Phone or Blackberry apps. Unlike rival Evernote, though, Google has only released a Keep app for its Android mobile...
