Social networks are becoming a dime a dozen. Most are endless variations of the same social sharing theme, and few of them are interesting. But Hi is different. In the social-startup Mad Libs game--"It's like Airbnb for boats" or "It's like Twitter for cats"--Hi is like Instagram for writers.

Digital is not just a strategy but actually reshaping business by disrupting the way Australian organisations innovate and interact with customers, Deloitte Australia’s digital leader claims.

Put your hands in the air - Intel has made another major push into the world of touch-free computing. The chipmaker has confirmed that it bought Israel-based Omek Interactive, a gesture-recognition firm. Omek (which means 'depth' in Hebrew) offers gesture-recognition products for computer and software makers that can track full-body movements as well as finer detail hand and finger gestures.

Salesforce.com has expanded its Radian6 social listening tools to cover popular social networks across China and Russia.

A team of university researchers in Austria are pooling human intelligence and cutting-edge data mining technology in a bid to solve the puzzle of understanding social media and online-based consumer sentiments accurately.

If Pinterest is looking over its shoulder, it's probably keeping an eye on We Heart It, an image-based social networking site that has quietly amassed a user base of 20 million.

Apple has filed to trademark the phrase "iWatch" in Japan, amid rumours the company will soon launch a smart watch device globally.

There's a reason why we all whip out smartphones in brick-and-mortar retail stores: Because we don't want to direct product-related questions to store clerks, who are usually either unbearably chirpy or sullen like moody teenagers.

Google reportedly is developing a gaming console powered by its Android mobile operating system in an effort to widen the software's reach beyond smartphones and tablets and stay ahead of its competitors.

Facebook appears to have a new product up its sleeve that it will unveil on Thursday at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

Wearable technology is widely predicted to be the "next big wave" in mobility, with innovations like the Pebble watch and Google Glass providing a glimpse of what the future could look like. But new research in the UK has revealed that 8 million people in Britain are already using wearables, and 16 million are planning to use them when they become more widely available.

Booths, the 160 year-old UK supermarket chain, is doing away with till receipts and is instead allowing customers to store them in a "personal cloud".

The smartphone of the future is going to require a "revolution" in thinking about technical design and "not enough people are prepared" for the challenges coming in here years, the president of Samsung Electronics said in his keynote at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) here today.

Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram.

In a sign of the powerful impact mobile is having on ecommerce, a new US report claims 15 per cent of online retail sales will take place via mobile devices this year.

Some Google Glass users are less than thrilled with the computerised eyeglasses that supposedly will replace the smartphone one day.

UK-based start-up, Eureka Mobile Advertising, is tapping into the lucrative mobile advertising space with new phone utility that it claims monetises the idle screen to deliver content to target subscribers.

Predictive analytics is being touted as the best way for marketers to unearth fresh insights using the wealth of data, technology tools and data science skills now at their disposal. But without the right approach projects are likely to fail.

Social video site Spreecast is taking its hybrid of live streams and interactive conversations to your smartphone with a pair of apps released Thursday for iOS and Android.

In the second of CMO’s series on marketing chiefs at fast-growing companies, we talk to Andrew Sinkov, VP of marketing at apps producer Evernote, about why customer ambassadorship is key in its communication strategy.

This roundup of hot social media startups was culled from a list of more than 40 nominees that were originally compiled on Startup50. Because narrowing a list of so many compelling startups down to 10 is both tricky and subjective, we turned to crowdsourcing for part of the decision-making process.