Everything + The Kitchen Sink
Everything (and the Kitchen Sink) … This is the one place you can read an abbreviated version of almost everything on the Appticity site!
I am off to the BIA/Kelsey Interactive Local Media Conference next week in Santa Clara. I have been attending this event for the last 4 years and it is always fantastic. This year’s line up of speakers include Google, Facebook, eBay, Gowalla, Yahoo, Citygrid, and Groupon to name a few. The Conference Agenda is located [...]
The U.S. will join Japan next year in the $1 billion mobile advertising club and is expected to generate five times that figure by 2015. Due to the relatively larger population compared to most European nations, U.S. mobile ad spending is several magnitudes higher than in Europe on a per-campaign basis, topping $100,000 for the average [...]
Over the past few years, it seems that a few mobile devices have become ubiquitous among businesspeople: laptops, Bluetooth headsets, and increasingly, smartphones. The days of the pager are gone. Small business owners seem to be outpacing the rest of America in smartphone adoption, according to a recent survey of nearly 10,000 small business owners. [...]
The convergence of smartphones, smart networks and mobile business applications has created unprecedented opportunity for companies across all industries to transform themselves — and in the process, reap dramatic returns on their network and IT investments, John Stankey, president and CEO-AT&T Business Solutions, told attendees on the final day of CTIA’s Enterprise and Applications conference. [...]