Consumers increase time spent in retailer mobile apps by 525%: report
In the debate over mobile websites versus native apps, native app detractors frequently make a seemingly good point: there are just too many native apps, so you can’t expect consumers to install and use yours.
For companies hoping customers and potential customers, that assumption has a significant implication: if your mobile strategy is native app-centric and you don’t have a mobile-friendly website, you might be missing out on the mobile opportunity.
Son of the late and venerable historian Eric Hobsbawm, Andy Hobsbawm may make history, not write it. That’s because he, along with technologist and serial entrepreneur Niall Murphy, as well as computer scientists Dom Guinard and Vlad Trifa, are making great strides with EVRYTHNG, a software company bent on connecting objects to the Internet — making them “smart,” as it were.
The role of a community manager is one that is becoming more strategic by the day in over all digital strategy.
Last year, Facebook went public in what was one of the most highly-anticipated and, as it turned out, disastrous IPOs of all time. In the past several months, the world’s largest social network has managed to convince Wall Street that it will eventually monetize its billion-plus users.
Smith & Wollensky is a high-end steakhouse located in New York City but the next time you’re visiting the Big Apple, it might not be your top choice for a fillet if you’re searching for a restaurant through a popular reviews service like Yelp.
Improving your online store requires many things, but nothing is more important than understanding why people buy. 
Two-thirds (66%) of smartphone owners are more worried about privacy on their device than they were a year ago, according to a new survey from TRUSTe.
As if anticipating items we’ll find on coffee tables in living rooms across the country this 
Content marketing is everywhere. As people are increasingly using online conversations as their digital identity, the best strategy for consumer brands to engage with their audiences with is to create content they can use as their own social currency. 
A recent survey into the functions that consumers most want to see in smartphone apps found that, aside from money saving offers, people value the ability to locate physical stores and to purchase items directly from the app.
Given the surge of ecommerce and the collapse of Blockbuster, HMV and Jessops, it seems bricks and mortar shops may eventually disappear. 
Not all Twitter followers are created equal.