As the number of mobile apps continues to explode, so do the challenges of developing and monetizing a successful app. This week the mobile landscape hit a significant milestone: one million apps have been published (not to be confused with live or active apps. We still have a while until we hit one million...
There is nothing I hate more than cables and wires that clutter up my work space. I have been a big proponent of the bluetooth keyboard and mice. With my iMac, I have no cables in sight bar the lone iPhone charger. Nevertheless I still keep looking for ways to reduce the clutter and...
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As we ponder what will happen to Apple without Steve Jobs, I keep coming back to a conversation I had a few weeks ago with a veteran Silicon Valley CEO who knew Jobs. This was just after Jobs had resigned as CEO of Apple. We got to talking about why Apple is so well-positioned...
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SuperMama, a brand new site catering to Middle Eastern mothers and families, launched at the beginning of October. The bilingual Arabic and English site provides information for mothers and mothers-to-be, provides a platform for an online community to come together and interact, and even provides its users with a toolbox to manage tasks, both at...
Last week, I moderated a panel at the Planet Of The Apps conference in London, which included Steve Yankovich, head of eBay’s mobile business operations and development. I caught up with Steve after our panel to talk more about eBay’s strides in introducing mobile commerce to a mainstream audience. Yankovich tells me eBay is...
Back in August, we reported that eBay is expecting a 25% growth of million-pound businesses in the UK this year, with 159 companies surpassing the magic million milestone. 10% of these will secure over £3m in sales – that’s a hell of a lot of padded envelopes, bubble-wrap and trips to the post office....
In December 2009, just in time for the holidays, the extremely obscure web series The Guild produced a series of parody ads entitled “The Guild Sells Out!” The concept simultaneously satirized the kind of over-the-top merchandising familiar to any child of Saturday morning cartoons, as well as the misperception that producing a long-running web...