Daily Dose of iQ: 2011 Mobile Year in Review
"2011 wasn't just the year of mobile. It was the year mobile took over the world," says The Mobile Future, in its 2011 Mobile Year in Review video (below): Smartphone revolution in full bloom. 2011 was...
View ArticleDaily Dose of iQ: Pinterest Hits 10 Million Monthly Visitors in Record Time
Josh Constine of TechCrunch.com reported yesterday that, according to data comScore provided exclusively to TechCrunch, "Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, crossing the 10...
View ArticleDaily Dose of iQ: Mobile Future Infographic Reiterates Dire Spectrum State
Last month, we blogged about the U.S. 'spectrum crunch,' as mobile phone traffic nears wireless network limits (analysts are predicting a spectrum deficit as early as next year). Today, a new...
View ArticleDaily Dose of iQ: New Polaroid Stores Only Print Mobile Device Photos
PSFK reports that Polaroid is opening a number of "Fotobars" across the U.S., which allow customers to print photos from their mobile devices (and/or their social networks) onto prints, canvases, and...
View ArticleDaily Dose of iQ: Tips from C. Wonder's Social Retail Strategy
Last week (July 31), Retail TouchPoints' Alicia Fiorletta interviewed Michael Chao, Director of Social and Mobile Engagement for C. Wonder. Chao had some really good insights for how a popular clothing...
View ArticleDaily Dose of iQ: Retailers Ramp Up Social Media Marketing for Holiday Season
Retailers are now embracing showrooming. Instead of simply competing with online retailers via the physical store, companies are increaslingly competing for consumers' online eyeball time, wrote...
View ArticleDaily Dose of iQ: iOS 8 Rumored to Let Apps Talk to Each Other
VentureBeat reported today that on iOS 8, Apple may finally debut an API that lets apps communicate with each other better -- a feature that's been talked about for years. This could be a major...
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Daily Dose of iQ: 'Like2Buy' Brings E-Commerce to Instagram
Tech Times reported on Friday (Aug. 29) about Like2Buy, a platform created by Curalate, which allows Instagram users to purchase what they see on their Instagram feeds. Nordstrom, Target and Charlotte...
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Daily Dose of iQ: The 'Instagram Effect' Affects How Millennials Shop
On Sunday (July 26), the Financial Times' Andrea Felsted and Hannah Kuchler told the story of Clodagh Pickavance, a 23-year-old Briton (pictured above) who admits that a fear of being seen wearing the...
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Daily Dose of iQ: Instagram Expands Its Ads, Facebook Ramps Up E-Commerce
Indeed, Facebook owns Instagram and as the former looks to monetize the latter, Instagram users can expect to see new types of advertisements soon."While Instagram isn’t necessarily pushing more ads on...
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