Google to Tie Mobile Web, App Trackers for Ad Targeting
For Advertisers, One Mobile User Has Previously Often Looked Like Two
Facebook Targets Ads Based on Cell Signal Strength
Advertisers can now target their Facebook ads based on how strong someone’s phone signal is.
The Cookies You Can’t Crumble
Google, Facebook, and a bunch of startups are finding new ways to collect data for advertisers
The Future of Mobile Apps for News
The modern smartphone is 7 years old and yet, when it comes to designing mobile applications, we are still barely scratching the surface. Today we’ll see how harnessing technology already embedded in a phone can unleash great potential.
The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations
In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device’s microphone. But researchers have found there’s another, little-considered sensor in modern phones that can also listen in on their conversations. And it doesn’t even need to ask.
WTF is cross-device tracking?
The mobile ad ecosystem is in “chaos,” and cross-device tracking aims to make sense of it. Here, we aim to make sense of cross-device tracking.
Pro-Privacy Blackphone Now Shipping | TechCrunch
The pro-privacy Blackphone, a hardened Android smartphone that focuses on making rigorous security features more accessible to a general phone user, has started shipping to its first wave of buyers.
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Google Earnings Preview: Revenue Growth From Mobile To Buoy Results
Google is set to release its Q2 2014 earnings on Thursday, July 17. In Q1, the company posted that its revenues grew by over 19% year over year. The result failed to enthuse the market which was expecting far better growth in both the top line and the bottom line. The primary reason for this was a decline in cost per click, which has been in a long-term decline for the past two years. However, this decline was offset to some extent by the adoption of its enhanced campaigns program that combines marketing campaigns across mobile desktop and laptops, i.e. across screens of different sizes.
When cellphones and social media become the enemy
There’s a moment in “Boyhood,” the new movie by Richard Linklater, when the boy in question, an eighth-grader, asks his mother for permission to attend a party that won’t have adult supervision. Reluctantly, she agrees, saying it’s OK as long as he takes his cellphone.
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