Every so often, some brave soul will opine something along the lines of: app stores are finished; app stores are on the way out; there’s no future in app stores; app stores are sooo last season, daarlink. One such was Vic Gundotra, Google’s Engineering Vice President. At the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco in July [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Diversifying Business Models Highlight Strength of Mobile Music – Analyst View
by Daniel Ashdown on March 16th, 2011
In Juniper Research’s recent report on mobile music, we found an industry in a healthy state with cause for optimism. Hence I was surprised to read a recent blog post by BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones which starts by asking: “Whatever happened to the mobile music revolution? You know, the idea that your phone would become [...]
StubHub is the world’s largest ticket marketplace and is part of eBay. Last week it launched its ticketing app for Android, to follow similar apps launched last year for iPhone and iPod Touch. Ticket sales focus on the entertainment and sports market segments. True to most mobile ticketing offerings, the app offers more features than [...]
Angry Birds gets $42 million funding… and 42 million downloads
by Dr Windsor Holden on March 11th, 2011
You are all, I take it, familiar with Angry Birds: the fat round red birds, the rather irascible looking yellow triangular ones, the explosive black ones, the white ones that drop the incendiary eggs, the blue parrots with the boomerang tendencies… look, I know it’s addictive, but can you please stop playing it while I’m [...]
There are plenty of indications to suggest that 2011 will be the Year of the Tablet. With Apple shipping nearly 15 million iPads in less than nine months, and Samsung weighing in with a further 2 million Tab sales in the last quarter, the omens are propitious. Understandably, manufacturers have been keen to seize on [...]
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