Four New Photo Apps To Check Out This Holiday Season
Video The phrase ‘every picture tells a story’ sounds as if it was something written by Shakespeare, but its etymology comes from the turn of the 20th Century when it was used in newspapers to...
View ArticleBlack Friday And Cyber Monday Now UK Retail Fixtures
In the early days of Twitter when the platform was more fun, and consequently more stupid, there were many meme-bandwagon jumpers who used all types of hashtags and ideas to boost their followers. One...
View ArticleTwilio Takes The Telephony Cloud To Continental Europe
The marketplace around cloud telephony is becoming crowded as talk intensifies around disruption of hackneyed, expensive office telephone hardware. Every cloud seems to have gold, not silver, linings...
View ArticleChina, Russia Team Up On $200 Million Robotics Deal
In a big move for Sino-Russian economic relations, the Skolkovo Foundation outside Moscow and China's Cybernaut Investment Group have signed a $200 million agreement to create a joint Russian-Chinese...
View ArticleBeware of WiFi Costs Because Cruise Prices Are All At Sea
The cruise industry is big business and getting bigger, and passengers are increasingly making purchase decisions based on WiFi speed and, more poignantly, the cost of that WiFi. In 2014 it was...
View ArticleData, Damned Data And The Danger of Relying on Social Media For Election Results
Traditions run deep in British politics. Earlier this week The Queen left Buckingham Palace in the royal carriage for the five-minute journey to attend the annual state opening of parliament to deliver...
View ArticleThe E-commerce Experience Now Focuses On The Customer, Not The Retailer
Earlier this week in the Sussex Downs of Southern England, the weather was turbulent and stormy; the rain came down for almost 48 hours. While this weather was somewhat short of the Indian monsoon that...
View ArticleHow The Gaming Industry Wins High Scores For Charity
Palringo's Ramadan campaigns have raised more than $400K over the past two years. A new campaign by Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment underscores how much the games industry continues to raise...
View ArticleE-commerce Is No Longer Seasonal, It's A Year-Round Shopping Thing
Once there was a time when global e-commerce trade was dominated by North America and accelerated by events-based phenomenon such as Christmas, Mother’s Day and birthdays. These times are now over......
View ArticleGeeks Reach For The Sky With Gaza's First Accelerator For Startups
Earlier this year, crowdfunding site Indiegogo began to promote an interesting appeal for investment. Not in a new product or even a new company, but an accelerator called Gaza Sky Geeks that needed...
View ArticleUK Social Intelligence Company Brandwatch Raises $33 Million Series C For US...
UK social intelligence company Brandwatch has completed a $33 million Series C funding round with investment from new investor French-based Partech Ventures, with participation from existing investors...
View ArticleNazara Games' Cut The Rope Deal Is The Biggest Mobile Publishing Deal In India
Due to its population of more than 1.2 billion people and the rise of middle class casual spending power, every year for at least the past decade has been forecast as the one when mobile games will...
View ArticleSumo Digital In Pune Takes Indian Outsourcing To The Next Level
The journey from London to Pune in India is an interesting one. It is easier to take the nine-hour flight to Mumbai and then get a taxi for the 95-mile journey rather than wait for a connecting flight....
View ArticleTilt Brings A New Angle On Mobile To Crowdfunding
It has been a good year for crowdfunding and the ongoing success of this relatively new form of investment fundraising for companies augurs well for 2016. Like any initial phenomenon there is no end to...
View ArticleGet Blume, Snap A Selfie, Start The Chat, Make The Date
Sometimes there’s no accounting for taste with human beings. Some might say that this unaccounted taste might be as ridiculous as the appeal of a certain Donald Trump, while others might refer to the...
View ArticleRugged Phones Come To The US With Verizon And CAT S50c Deal
While smartphone penetration in the US grew slowly in 2015, another market is beginning to emerge as the next battleground for users with practical and everyday tastes… that of the so-called rugged...
View ArticleThe Smart City Challenge Finalists Will Change The Face Of London
In recent years, cities around the world have scrambled to emulate the Silicon Valley model by all attempting to become tech hubs that attract talent, investment and the globe’s most successful...
View ArticleForget Oil, The new Middle East Gushers Are Mobile Games
We know the stock markets have started 2016 badly. The South Asian bubble, led by China desperately spending money to bring people into cities from the countryside, is over. Russia is suffering huge...
View ArticleTechnology Is A Better Fix For The Syrian Crisis Than Donations And Aid
Last week in London, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the Syria Donors Conference had raised more than $10 billion in donations for the crisis in that benighted country, of which $6...
View ArticleVillage Capital Is The New Emerging Market Game In Town
Village Capital today launched in Amsterdam VilCap Communities Global, an initiative to unlock more capital for seed-stage entrepreneurs to major global problems in emerging and less-known markets by...
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