mobile Teenage Girls Texting 1.5X More Than Boys Teens sure do love their texting. New data from Nielsen proves it. According to an analysis of 65,000+ mobile subscribers' phone bills, U.S. teens have tripled their data usage. In the third quarter of 2011, teens aged 13-17 averaged 320 MB of data per month. This number has increased 256% over the last year, and not surprisingly teens are are… Mobile Alicia Eler View comments
E-Commerce Coffee & Power Opens LA Workclub Coffee & Power has opened its first official workclub in Santa Monica, CA. It's the first expansion of the "meta-company" outside the San Francisco Bay Area. The new workclub is hosted in the offices of Sparqlight, an app for making business workflows more automated and social. The expansion wasn't even Coffee & Power's idea; after… Jon Mitchell View comments
Guest Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs At today's roundtable, we had a 30-minute segment on Web 3.0 and Social Dancing. We basically took the Web 3.0 framework - Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS) - and did a blue sky exercise on how to create a comprehensive user experience for social dancers. We also explored business models that not only can span advertising, subscription, and e-commerce, but… Sramana Mitra View comments
News Amazon Goes South: New Region in Sao Paulo We're still waiting on a South Pole region for AWS, but it might be a while before Amazon sets up shop in Antarctica. However, the company announced today that they've got South America covered. Amazon has opened its South America (Sao Paulo) region in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This will be useful for organizations in South and Central America that want… Joe Brockmeier View comments
mobile Most Adults Under 35 Own a Smartphone It hasn't even been five years since Apple unveiled the first iPhone. The device wasn't the world's first smartphone, but was arguably the most capable and well-designed and Apple's marketing prowess it made it the first must-have gadget of its kind. Soon after came Android, which has powered increasingly impressive devices by a range of… Mobile John Paul Titlow View comments