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Jeff Widman co-founded PageLever to provide better Facebook analytics for marketers. PageLever measures more than 650 million Facebook fans across sites like YouTube and MTV. Jeff has been cited as an expert in Facebook analytics by Mashable, AdAge, the Wall … Continue reading →

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today. Sony Acquires Ericsson’s … Continue reading →

Livestream, the popular livestreaming site which essentially coined the term, just announced a serious relaunch under the title “New Livestream.” New Livestream will retain all the same video features of Livestream but with a suite of social and multimedia tools. … Continue reading →

Kobo Vox, a competitor to the Amazon Kindle Fire, will go on sale Friday. We got our hands on the seven-inch ereader tablet, and here are our first impressions. LIke the Kindle Fire, the Kobo Vox will retail for a … Continue reading →

Let’s hear it for Captain Obvious! HP and its new leader Meg Whitman finally figured out what we knew all along — that ripping the PC business out of HP is akin to ripping a beating heart out of a … Continue reading →

So he was a flawed mortal after all. A really flawed mortal, whose boundless obsession turned him into the nearest thing to a Shakespearean figure that our century has seen. This is what we find after finishing Steve Jobs by … Continue reading →

In a move that no doubt caused a lot of consternation after rival Netflix‘s experience doing the same, Redbox has decided to raise the price of its DVD rentals. The increase, which goes into effect Oct. 31, is only from … Continue reading →

After taking over the world – in the form of an extremely popular multi-platform game, followed by toys and accessories, even baby clothes – Angry Birds will venture where no dissatisfied feathered creature has gone before: into space. An Angry … Continue reading →

Google has added its perspective — with a search-data-based popularity contest — to the comparisons between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. The data rules in favor of Occupy Wall Street. Users searched for the nascent movement more than … Continue reading →

Television is broken. I know it. You know it. Steve Jobs knew it. I have a pretty state-of-the-art 2011 Sony LED TV, complete with Hulu Plus, Netflix and YouTube apps. Yet it still usually takes me about a dozen clicks … Continue reading →