Archive : Web

Pinterest bought Punchfork, a 2-year old recipe sharing and discovery website, for an undisclosed sum according to Punchfork’s founder and CEO Jeff Miller  in an e-mail to the website’s community. Punchfork will soon shut down its website, app and API. Here’s the full e-mail Miller sent to Punchfork’s users: Dear Punchfork Community, Today we are excited to share the news that [...]

Instagram lost almost a quarter of its daily users a week after it rolled out and then withdrew policy changes that incensed users who feared the photo-sharing service would use their pictures without compensation. Instagram, which Facebook bought for $715 million this year, saw the number of daily active users who accessed the service via Facebook bottom out at 12.4 million as of Friday, versus a [...]

Facebook article on Wikipedia has become the most viewed English article of the year, according to statistics from Wikimedia’s Toolserver. The next highest viewed page, Wiki, is a surprising one with 29.6 million views – it’s this page that explains how sites such as Wikipedia function – while the third place is taken by the list of deaths in 2012 (25.4 million views). Here’s [...]

Google has released its selection  for the best Android apps of 2012. Google merchandising manager Tavares Ford provided more details on the top 12 picks of 2012 ” These are some of the best apps available in Google Play. Some launched in 2012 while others issued updates that achieved a great combination of utility, beauty and accessibility. Almost all of them are available globally and offer [...]

Amazon.co.uk  and amazon.com led ForeSee’s annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index Customer Satisfaction Scores for the Top 40 Retail Websites in the UK. Amazon.uk  garnered 86 points, to stay ahead of  Amazon.com, which recorded 84 points. John Lewis (80) stayed at in third this year, rounding out the list of three companies that surpass the excellence threshold of 80. Play.com (79), Apple [...]

Customer satisfaction with Apple’s online store slipped to 80 from the 83 points it garnered in 2011 according to ForeSee’s annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index. The results are  compiled from 24,000 U.S.  customer surveys gathered between Thanksgiving and Christmas. “This year, we’re seeing that even some of the largest companies in the country are at risk if they lose sight of customer [...]

Facebook announced its rumored Snapchat competitor on through a blog post Friday , the app is named Poke. Not ununike Snapchat’s app, Poke, lets you send a message, photo or video to Facebook friends. The messages expire after 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds, though. The Poke app, which will be available in the Apple iOS App Store on Friday. ‘With the Poke app, you can poke or send a message, photo, [...]

Want to send a Facebook message to a person who is not your Facebook friend? Pay up.  Facebook on Thursday starts testing if it can monetize and cut spam at the same time by asking you to pay to ensure the recipient sees it. Facebook’s also changing everyone’s privacy settings into dynamic filters that let “relevant” messages through. Facebook says the changes are primarily designed to let [...]

Everyone knew it was be popular, but Google Maps for iOS was downloaded an incredible 10 million downloads in its first two days of release on iOS. That accounts for roughly 2.5% of iOS devices sold. “We’re excited for the positive reception of Google Maps for iPhone around the world,” writes Huber. “Congratulations to the Maps Team on the recognition for the passion and hard work they poured [...]

Dropbox reported  on its blog on Friday the launch of new iOS app that introduces a redesigned, streamlined UI, a new Photos tab that allows you to scroll through a timeline of your automatically uploaded photos, and improvements to the photo-viewing experience. Dropbox boasted that uploads have now been improved, allowing users to ” tap the ‘+’ icon to upload something or create a new folder.” We’ve [...]