Nearly half of Instagrammers use Android + MORE

Gartner has published its latest report with smart devices projections for smartphones, tablets, ultramobiles and PCs from 2012 to 2017, and it’s as clear picture as you can get of how mobile rules today and will continue to dominate the device landscape tomorrow. Echoing results from IDC’s global device forecast last month, Gartner’s numbers make more grim reading for Microsoft — the company with the most to lose as the old empire of the PC continues its slow decline, trumped by the price, simplicity and convenience of Android and iOS-powered mobile computing devices…

We just released a new version of Twitter for Android. Its new design reflects a native Android experience: wider and taller timelines that fill the screen, a flat navigation bar, tap and hold for quick actions, and more. You can now quickly navigate between tabs by swiping across your screen. And as you type your Tweet or search, you’ll see username and hashtag suggestions, making it easier to connect with friends and join conversations…

Facebook has renamed its Nearby feature, which enables members to find places nearby based on the Likes and recommendations of friends.
There are a few things you should know, though. According to Inside Facebook, there doesn’t appear to be a lot of awareness among members of the social network about this feature…

The Human Rights Campaign is this week’s most talked about page for non-profit organization pages with 1.6 million in total PTAT. It was also the top gainer in the category with a weekly growth of 1.4 million new engagements.
We compile this list of top gaining non-profit pages with our PageData tool, which tracks page growth and engagement across Facebook…

There’s a formula to the typical business book: look at some successful companies, analyze them, make some true generalizations of those companies, and then advise others to do the same.
The trouble is, this is basically useless.
Here’s why: In a pool of thousands of companies, inevitably some are going to end up highly successful purely through luck—and by looking just at performance, you’ve got no way of distinguishing luck and solid business strategy…

Instagram today announced that nearly half of the service’s users are active on Android. The company reported 100 million monthly active users in February.
Today’s news comes on the one-year anniversary of Instagram launching a version of its app for Android. Many had been awaiting the release after nearly a year and a half of Instagram being iPhone only…

Facebook has renamed its Nearby feature on iOS “Local Search,” making its function more obvious and possibly increasing the number of users who will try it.
For now, the tab is still called Nearby on Facebook’s mobile site and Android app.
The social network relaunched Nearby on mobile as a local search product in December 2012…

Facebook plans to eliminate the “friends of fans” metric from its page insights product, first reported by Wisemetrics and confirmed to us by Facebook.
The metric shows page owners their estimated total potential audience when counting the friends of users who Like their page, however, it is not very useful…

LinkedIn has confirmed with us that it is testing the ability to add Facebook-style mentions of people and companies in status updates.
The feature, seemingly not accessible in many accounts yet, works just like it does on Facebook. It adds a link to the person or company concerned, and sends a notification to that account that they got mentioned…

Did you know that between 2011 and 2012, time spent on social media increased by some 30 billion minutes, representing a year-on-year increase of 37 percent?
But, according to one study, while Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest remain popular with users aged 30 and over, it’s the formerly niche social platforms such as Reddit, Github and DeviantArt that can boast the highest representation amongst the important 18-29 demographic…

“You don’t own me” is not just an idea for 1960s ballads. “Disownership” is a national trend in America right now, as Internet startups transform the way people consume goods and services.
Consumer attitudes and behaviors surrounding renting, borrowing, and leasing items, versus ownership, are shifting around the country, according to a study conducted by Sunrun and Harris Interactive…

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It began with a Facebook status update from an ex-girlfriend, alleging that he had beaten her. Gossip blog Gawker picked up the post, confirming that the woman, Jenn Allen, had dated investor and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. Then Allen charged that Arrington had raped a friend of hers in the comments section of the Gawker post…