Email More Mobile is now the world’s dominant computing experience. It is logical to assume that mobile will soon usurp the desktop as the dominant digital ad platform as well. Despite its potential, legitimate questions surround the widespread assumption that ad spend will skyrocket to meet engagement. In a new report from BI Intelligence on the mobile advertising ecosystem, we...
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TNW has been visiting with the Wayra Academy to check up on how the process of growing businesses in an accelerator works. The first round of companies was accepted into the Wayra London Academy back in June and in July we found out how they were settling in. By now the companies have advanced a...
To better serve its users and help account owners understand what has happened to their tweets, Twitter has changed the way it serves copyright takedowns from rights-holders, now “withholding” tweets instead of deleting them. GigaOm noticed the change, which was documented in a tweet (where else?) by a member of Twitter’s legal team, pointing to...
To many, the meteoric rise of blogs about productivity in the mid-2000s was inexplicable and came out of left field. It probably shouldn’t have been a surprise. Products like Stephen Covey’s 1989 book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and David Allen’s 2001 book Getting Things Done were immensely popular well before the...
“It was the worst of times. It was the best of times.” – Un-Dickens There is a looming sense, a dark narrative that America’s best days are behind it. Why? A clash of civilizations. A sense in many pockets of the country that we are living in a time of anomie, inequity and worry....
When I first wrote about the potential impact of the iPad mini on Apple’s profits, back in September before it was even announced, I enumerated the different factors that will negatively impact Apple’s profits: whether it serves customer needs; its competitive positioning; and cannibalization of profits from other product lines. More importantly I then...
There was the usual talk about the excitement of the startup universe and the thrill of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School’s 18th annual Cyberposium on Sunday, so I’ll cut to the chase. Here are the five most surprising, or entertaining, things I heard at the confab which drew about 700 attendees, many of them MBA...
“There’s an app for that.” Apple’s marketing slogan — meant to illustrate the vast size of its mobile application store — is increasingly accurate in terms of appifying aspects of our everyday lives. The trend is bubbling up in a number of major urban markets where users are happily ordering everything from transportation to...