Mobile Minutes: Facebook and IBM's ads; Phablet market quadruples; Apple's Beats Music scrutiny; Uber for everything
Facebook and IBM team up to supercharge personalized ads
Today, the two companies announced that they?re working together to integrate
Facebook?s existing ad targeting technology into IBM?s own line of tools and
services for retailers.
Read more on Wired
Phablet market quadruples in U.S., according to Kantar
Worldpanel
Phablets -- smartphones with a screen size of 5.5" and over -- represented
21 percent of all US smartphone sales in Q1 2015, nearly quadrupling their 6
percent share from the first quarter of 2014, according to the latest Kantar
Worldpanel ComTech market share data.
Read more on Digital Journal
Apple's Beats Music deals under U.S. scrutiny:
Bloomberg
Apple Inc's move to line up deals with record labels is under U.S. antitrust
scrutiny as the iPhone maker prepares to debut a new version of the Beats Music
streaming service, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Read more on Reuters
There?s an Uber for everything now
A concierge economy is sprouting up on phones, and no place more so than in my
city of San Francisco, the capital of Internet La La Land.
Read more on Wall Street Journal