Many people believe that America’s first digital generation is “newsless.” Conventional wisdom dictates that one of the many reasons for print newspapers decline is due to low readership rates among Millennials, and that very few of them read the news at all. To complicate the picture further, it’s widely viewed […] Read more »
Twitter’s Evolving Plans to Make Money From Its Data Stream
Late on Friday, Twitter announced that it would no longer license the full stream of half a billion daily messages on its service to third-party resellers. … This is far different from four years ago, when Twitter struck licensing deals with Gnip and DataSift. Back then, Twitter didn’t see much […] Read more »
Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015
24% of teens go online “almost constantly,” facilitated by the widespread availability of smartphones. Aided by the convenience and constant access provided by mobile devices, especially smartphones, 92% of teens report going online daily — including 24% who say they go online “almost constantly,” according to a new study from […] Read more »
Amazon Cloud Introduces Artificial Intelligence Service
Websites are set to get smarter after Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud division added an artificial intelligence service that lets people add predictive and analytical capabilities to their applications. Andy Jassy, the head of the Amazon Web Services business, on Thursday announced the Amazon Machine Learning service. … The new product is […] Read more »
U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015
The traditional notion of “going online” often evokes images of a desktop or laptop computer with a full complement of features, such as a large screen, mouse, keyboard, wires, and a dedicated high-speed connection. But for many Americans, the reality of the online experience is substantially different. Today nearly two-thirds […] Read more »
Americans’ Privacy Strategies Post-Snowden
It has been nearly two years since the first disclosures of government surveillance programs by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and Americans are still coming to terms with how they feel about the programs and how to live in light of them. … A new survey by the […] Read more »