This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here. Apple announced in June that 30 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store, up from 25 billion only three months earlier. App downloads have...
If Apple would just support China’s unique 3G technology, the iPhone would make a killing in the largest country in the world – or so concludes Kevin Wang, director of China electronics research at IHS iSuppli. Apple ranks a woeful seventh in China’s smartphone sales, but according to Wang it could easily do something...
Audax Health A Ping-Pong table is the first thing you see when you walk into the entrance foyer. There are whiteboards on the walls in every direction with multicolored workflows, shocking healthcare statistics, customer acquisition models and names like Autism Speaks, Value Options and some of the largest payers in the country that they’ve...
Guess what! There’s another Kickstarter project that pushes the Internet of Things forward in a fun way. For as little as $10 you could pledge money to SmartThings, which wants to develop sensors and an application environment that lets people who may not be comfortable programming an Arduino board tie the physical world to...
When Twitter published its latest thinking on how its API would evolve, and what developers it wanted to leave behind, it noted one of the areas it wanted to emphasize more was enterprise. Today we get more of a clue why: HootSuite, an enterprise-focused Twitter client that actually got a name-check in that blog...
Facebook released a completely rebuilt version of its iOS app for iPhone and iPad today, changing a fundamental aspect of the company’s mobile strategy. Gone is the Web-centric, HTML5 approach. In its place, Facebook has rebuilt the iOS app using Apple’s native framework. The result? A more streamlined, faster app for the iPhone and...
Facebook released a completely rebuilt version of its iOS app for iPhone and iPad today, changing a fundamental aspect of the company’s mobile strategy. Gone is the Web-centric, HTML5 approach. In its place, Facebook has rebuilt the iOS app using Apple’s native framework. The result? A more streamlined, faster app for the iPhone and...
Editor’s Note: Semil Shah (@semil) is currently an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners. “In the Studio” continues this week by hosting a venture capitalist who, after earning degrees in electrical engineering and management science, went on to assume a number of engineering roles in industry, such as designing, marketing, and selling software, before he ended up...
Today, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot unveiled the city’s 2012 Digital Roadmap, which follows the success of last year’s 2011 digital roadmap. This initiative was created to share NYC’s past success in digital and tech initiatives, and to simultaneously “spur the development of” the city’s tech scene. According to the...
It may not have an agreement to sell Apple’s iPhone but China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, is set to get its very own dose of Siri after it confirmed it has struck a $214.85 million (1.36 billion RMB) deal to acquire a 15 percent stake in Anhui UTC iFlyTek, a Chinese company that develops Siri-like software...