Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Pokémon Go generated an estimated $950 million in revenues in 2016

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"Pokémon Go generated an estimated $950 million in revenues in 2016, according to a report by market researcher App Annie. Niantic Lab...

BBC iPlayer had nearly 300m requests in December 2016

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"The week of New Year (December 26th – January 1st) saw 69.3 million requests, more than any other week in BBC iPlayer’s history. Decem...

Over half of US homes with smart thermometers would share their data in return for cheaper bills

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"Parks Associates today announced new research showing roughly 50% of U.S. broadband households would share data from their thermostat ...

Tesla's 'Autopilot' results in 40% fewer crashes

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"Tesla’s driver-assistance features, known collectively as Autopilot, have been vindicated. The U.S. Department of Transportation has ...

Over 50m people in the UK accessed the internet in December 2016

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"Over 50 million users accessed the internet via their desktop, smartphone and tablet devices in December 2016. - Share of minutes to ...

Alibaba sites now have nearly 500m monthly active users

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"Jack Ma’s online shopping empire now has 493 million users who access its China marketplaces every month on mobile devices, up from 39...

Over half of smartphone owners in the US, UK and China pay no money for apps

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"Over half of smartphone users spend no money on smartphone apps (paid-for downloads and in-app transactions), according to a new surve...

Premium publishers made approximately 14% of their ad revenues from distribution platforms like Facebook in 2016

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"Publishers are receiving far less money than might have been expected from placing their content on the third-party distribution platf...

in 2016 Google took down 1.7 billion ads that violated its advertising policies

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"We have a strict set of policies that govern the types of ads we do and don’t allow on Google in order to protect people from misleadi...

Airbnb 'is Profitable'

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"Late last year, as many technology startups were struggling to stay afloat, Airbnb Inc. quietly reached a milestone few of its peers h...

Xbox Live has 55m monthly active users

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"Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform continues to add more users as the company expands its gaming business across consoles and PC devices. ...

View counts for Snapchat stories has fallen 15-405 since the launch of Instagram Stories

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"Good enough and convenient. That’s proved a winning strategy for Instagram’s clone, according to a dozen analytics providers, social m...