The launch of YouTube Shorts in the United States beginning in March will provide mobile creators with new technologies and support, YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan wrote in a Wednesday (Feb. 17) blog post. “Every year, increasing numbers of people come to YouTube to...
It’s the most-watched sporting event of the year: A contest that not only pits enormous athletes against one another on the field, but also lines up some of the country’s biggest marketing muscles in the battle for attention off the field. From its absurd name...
Video game commerce company Xsolla has introduced a mobile game commerce solution designed to manage mobile games beyond the app stores. “Game developers of all sizes face many challenges working within the current app store business model — from discoverability and limited player data to...
The fact that the world is a very different place than it was a little under a year ago isn’t likely to be called into question by anyone currently reading this in pajama pants as they work from home. But quantifying that change can be...
Airtel, India’s largest telecom service provider, has teamed up with Amazon to launch a mobile-only video entertainment platform. Prime Video Mobile Edition is a single-user subscription service. India is the first country offering Amazon Prime to extend the mobile-only package, Airtel said in a press...
Shipments of smartphones in China tumbled 20 percent in 2020 as Chinese consumers continued to delay upgrading their phones. The number of devices shipped domestically fell to 296 million in 2020, from 372 million in 2019, according to Reuters, which cited newly released Chinese government...
If it feels like the rollout of 5G – or 5th generation – super high-speed wireless service has been in the works forever, you’re probably right, given that it was officially launched in 2019. While the four major cell phone service companies are still racing...
iPhones dominated the Christmas Day market for new phone activations, according to a report from Cult of Mac. The Apple favorites represented nine out of 10 handset activations, with the very last on the list being the lone Android, the report said, citing market analysts....
It’s been a wild ride in 2020, and something of a strange one for 5G, which was the subject of an early conspiracy that blamed the technology for the global COVID-19 outbreak. The rumor didn’t turn out to have much of a shelf life and...
