South Korea has been recognised as having the most advanced Internet and telecoms economy, according to Measuring the Information Society 2011, a report published by the ITU (International Telecommunication Union), the UN agency for information and communications technologies. The Asian giant held the top spot in last year’s report and is described as being a...
Daily Archives: September 16, 2011
Betaworks Cofounder Andy Weissman Jumps To Union Square Ventures
Andy Weissman, the cofounder of Betaworks, a New York-based incubator/investor/operating firm for startups, is joining Union Square Ventures, one of the best VC firms in the world. Weissman’s Betaworks partner John Borthwick announced the move in an email to Betaworks’ 82 employees, which BetaBeat first reported. Part of the reason Weissman decided to jump...
955 Dreams Brings Elegance, Disruption To Music Discovery With Band Of The Day
955 Dreams is on a roll. They’ve released five iOS apps so far, and all five have been featured by Apple as an “App of the Week”. Band of the Day is the latest one, earning the distinction this week. And the app earns the title. I’ve been trying it out for the past...
1 Million Android and iOS apps have now been published: Report
As the smartphone market continues to boom and device owners download an increasing number of applications, app discovery platform AppsFire today announced that there have now been more than 1 million apps published to the Apple App Store and Android Market combined. The company is quick to point out that not all of those...
Mobile now accounts for over 10% of all sales on eBay UK
It’s no secret we’re now well and truly in the decade of mobile, with over a quarter of adults and almost half of all teenagers now owning a smartphone in the UK. And with smartphones becoming increasingly ubiquitous it seems that this is helping drive e-commerce. Certainly, if the latest figures from eBay are...
Apple says its working on allowing merging of Apple IDs
An Apple executive relations employee is reported to have called an irate customer to inform him that Apple was working on allowing the merging of Apple IDs, according to a post by MacRumors. MacRumors reader Robert emailed Apple CEO Tim Cook wanting to know if there was a solution for the problem of multiple...
Build 2011: Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie on Scaling Azure for Everyone
Scott Guthrie is one of the heroes of every Microsoft conference. Now the Senior VP in charge of Windows Azure, he became well-known and also very well-liked for being the tall, slim, soft-spoken champion of Silverlight, the lightweight app development platform that started Microsoft on the course of mobile apps. He’s a believer in...