The Newstex Team

Which is better for advertisers -- Facebook or Google? With a $100 billion valuation of Facebook leading up to its IPO last week (half of Google's worth), that's a question everyone is asking.

In its annual State of the Appnation report, Nielsen reports that 50% of U.S. mobile subscribers use smartphones, which is up from 40% in 2011.

Every day, authoritative bloggers work hard to research stories, craft interesting posts, and communicate with their readers.

According to Ben Elowitz, CEO of Wetpaint, "content is no longer king." In an article Elowitz published on All Things D this week, he states that the evolution of the internet has killed that mantra, and content and distribution have parted ways making way to disaggregation.

Over the weekend, I attended the Mashable Connect conference in Orlando, Florida, and I walked away with some great insights and food for thought.

Last week, the web was buzzing with news about Google Drive, the new tool from Google that is being positioned as the alternative to Dropbox, Box, SugarSync, and other cloud storage systems.

What's your blogging process? That's a question that Mitch Joel of Six Pixels of Separation asked blogging pros to answer recently, and the result is a collection of fantastic insights from seasoned bloggers.

Did you know there is a specific pattern of traffic to most content that is published online?

New research from Time Inc. reveals that "Digital Natives" (people who grew up with mobile technology as part of their everyday lives) switch between content platforms 27 times per hour (that's every other minute).

Just how popular is WordPress? A recent list of the top 100 blogs from Technorati revealed that 48 of the top 100 blogs in the world are built on WordPress.