Fiksu, a mobile app marketing company, released data today pointing to the increasing cost of acquiring a loyal customer on mobile app stores. The data highlights two trends: Developer demand [...]
As I read about the new Galaxy Nexus on the Verge, I was struck by the reading experience – the beautiful page layout, the selection of fonts, the alternate, offset [...]
Second only to Oracle, Google is the great integrator of large acquisitions. DoubleClick, YouTube, Android, Docs, AdSense, Keyhole, Postini and AdMob all were acquired and well integrated. Many of them [...]
Internet Google Plus has rolled out its gaming platform with 16 titles from 10 developers (EA/Popcap, Rovio, Zynga, Wooga, Kabam and others). Google is charging an initial 5% transaction fee, [...]
Black markets are nothing new. They crop up for all kinds of reasons: to curb regulation, to defeat (excessive) taxes, to exchange illegal goods. As I read the news this [...]
There was some magic revealed yesterday. One of our companies, Expensify announced two big milestones yesterday. The first is the launch of one touch expense filing. Here’s a screenshot of the [...]
If there were any doubt of the breadth of vision Google has for Android, Google IO laid those to rest. In the first 50 minutes of the keynote, Hugo Barra [...]
“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel” –Ralph Waldo Emerson If you walked past me this morning on 2nd street, you would have heard me say [...]
When I bought a MacBook Air earlier this year, I promised to download as few applications to it as possible. I had noticed over time that my MacBook Pro struggled [...]
Jonathan Carson of Nielsen revealed some great insights on mobile trends at AppNation today. Unlike the beginning of the web, on mobile existing big brands are winning. Google, YouTube, Facebook [...]
