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The Spring edition of the long-going Piper Sandler survey of teen spending habits and tech usage/preferences is out. The results show some consistent year-to-year trends, such as Apple's dominance in tugging at teens' heartstrings and their (parents') wallets, and that Netflix and Nike are still their preferred go-to...
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The amount of harmful content on the internet poses serious threats to impressionable teens, which is why parents strive to have greater access and control over the kind of content their underage children consume online. AI chatbot, Character.AI is facing severe criticisms and multiple lawsuits from parents who accuse...
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The Piper Sandler equity research group has published its yearly Teens Survey report showing what teens in the U.S. like to have, own, and consume. Apple continues its dominance with 87 percent of teens owning iPhones, with 30 percent intending to upgrade just for Apple Intelligence in the next few months, Nike is...
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Most of us likely babysat, mowed lawns, or worked part-time jobs to earn money as teens. However, teens in 2022 have some rather interesting and unexpected ways to make some extra cash. Minors are reportedly developing, discussing, and selling malware through a Discord server. What happened to paper...
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Teenagers are usually quick to adapt to technology, so it shouldn't be too surprising that teens are the ones embracing hands-free search. According to the results of Google's Mobile Voice Study, 55 percent of teenagers between the age of 13-18 years old use voice search on a daily basis, versus 41 percent of adults...
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Facebook CFO David Ebersman shook things up when he casually mentioned in a recent earnings call that the social network was seeing a drop in daily use among teens, but it’s possible that the reason he was didn’t make a big deal about it is that there’s nothing to be alarmed about. That’s the...
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Are teens using social media responsibly? A new study conducted by the Pew Research Center sheds light on how teenagers are using sites like Facebook and Twitter, as well as how they view their online privacy both in terms of managing their settings and the level of concern over third-party access to their data. As...
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It's sometimes easy to forget that an unsubsidized smartphone can cost upwards of $600, especially when you see a group of giggling teens wielding around what are essentially handheld computers. Get used to that scene. According to a new survey, smartphone adoption among American teenagers is rising fast. Pew Research...
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This won't come as much of a revelation, but teens love to text. A lot. So much so, in fact, that texting is fast becoming the preferred method of communication, suggests a new study by Pew Internet. According to the study, American teens between the ages of 12 and 17 are more apt to text message their friends than they are to call, email,...
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Those looking forward to the July 1st introduction of a teenage cell phone ban in California should start looking elsewhere for comfort. An Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study released on Monday, which took a look at the results of a 2006 North Carolina ban for drivers younger than age 18, showed that teenagers were just as likely...
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This is one of those, "no, you're kidding" type of stories. You know, the kind where you figure they really didn't need to do a study to determine this type of result. After all, the way teens are glued to their phones, you would figure this would be the case, wouldn't you? Researchers in Belgium reported 62 percent of...
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Well, the future is always now. Remember that guy at the office that asked you to explain e-mail to him last week? The guy in the Member's Only jacket? Well, tell him to skip e-mail and go right to social networking sites, Instant Messaging and chatting on his cell phone. Because that's the way of he future, it appears....
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