Mobile location apps are coming out of the woodwork as we lead up to South by Southwest, which starts tomorrow. This follows Foursquare's storied beginnings at SXSW ’09, after which it quickly ramped up to its current $7.5 million users.…
Yesterday we wrote about the enhancements to the new Foursquare app (v. 3.0). Today there are new details and screenshots in a Foursquare blog post specifically about the new merchant tools to create and organize specials. Here's what we said…
I recently had the chance to catch up with Gary Rudolph, cofounder of mobile and social app developer Lolay. Rudolph is the former VP of technology for CityGrid where he also worked with cofounder Bardia Dejban. Lolay builds custom apps…
In the run-up to South by Southwest, we're seeing a land rush to promote cool mobile apps. A top category continues to be location apps, following Foursquare's past SXSW success. This year, the hot new categories will be social sharing…
Just in time for South By Southwest -- a historically significant show for Foursquare -- the company is out with the latest version (3.0) of its iPhone app. Many of the features fall closely in line with the company's comments to us…
Telmetrics announced today that it has been chosen by Yelp to run the site's call measurement. This includes reporting to advertisers the volume of calls they received through the site (involving unique tracking numbers). According to the press release: Telmetrics’…
From the Friday parody department, we already have a few iPad2 spoofs out. Below is the video from JLE, quickly making a name for itself for mockumentary-style videos of Apple's promos (the real promo video is here). Conan O'brien was…
You've probably heard by now that AOL has continued its content acquisition streak by acquiring hyperlocal news and blogging network Outside.in. Outside.in will beef up Patch's hyperlocal content and also its team, as it continues the ambitious plan of cracking…
In the previous post we mentioned the growth of Android as a proxy for decisions to develop for the platform first (or exclusively). It's no secret it has the greatest momentum and some research firms have already pegged it as…
Google's Hotpot was a notable product launch that got lots of attention in the tech press and analyst corps, but hasn't yet generated the mainstream attention it deserves. That should change, and especially when it finds its true calling in…
Many of you no doubt heard that the new iPad2 was just unveiled. The invitation for the press event made no secret that it was an iPad related announcement (a giant “2” signified the date as well as “iPad2″).
One surprise, however, was the appearance of Steve Jobs mid-sick leave. He started out with some general stats around Apple products that were positioned as the “post PC blockbusters” (iPod, iPhone, iPad). Here are a few numbers announced:
— 100 million iPhones sold
— $2 billion paid to iOS developers
— 200 million iTunes accounts
— 100 million iBooks downloaded
— 65,000 iPad specific apps (compared with 100 apps for Android’s Honeycomb tablet OS)
On to the main event: 2010 was positioned as the year of the iPad. But 2011 so far has been the “year of the copycats,” including HP, Samsung and Android (ouch!). Still, Apple sold 15 million iPads in 2010, accounting for $9.5 billion in revenues and a 90 percent market share.
Now to once again set the bar is the iPad2. The impressive list of new features includes:
In the run-up to any given BIA/Kelsey conference, I'm continually asked about the makeup of our typical audience. This is a good question from both attendees and speakers trying to devise the proper tone for their presentations or prepared panel fodder.…
It's no secret that local discovery is becoming one of the central trends in mobile advertising. This replaces the search based paradigm that ruled the desktop, in favor of pushing content that is geographically relevant. The portability of the device…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to posts we've written over the past week from the wide world of mobile sports. -- More Infographics for Your Friday Pleasure (Update) -- More Infographics for Your…
And just like that ... Foursquare is at it again. A fresh infographic -- just in time for the Oscars -- illustrates check-in activity around certain movies. The rise of the infographic continues. This one's pretty self explanatory.
I was talking to a colleague earlier about the rise of infographics. Yesterday, we saw one from The Dealmap, and recent notable ones include Facebook and Foursquare. My all-time favorite is Napoleon's March. They're fun, illustrative, viral and of course promotional for whoever…
Today I had the chance to talk to Karl Weigl, managing partner of market research firm BRS Group. The firm generates consumer behavior metrics across a wide range of industries like tech & financial. This includes all-important consumer usage patterns -- an…
Just a few months after it relaunched its mobile app around the idea of local discovery (an overall mobile trend), Where yesterday launched another set of discovery features for iPhone and Android. Central to the new app is Perfect Places, a discovery…
This morning I received a note from Adaffix CEO Claudia Poepperl about a deal the company formed with Orange Austria to integrate directly into the carrier's network infrastructure. As anyone in the mobile game knows, carrier deals (especially pre-iPhone) are like gold.…
ShopSavvy, a mobile barcode scanning app we've written about many times, has integrated Groupon deals as part of a new partnership announced today. Its 10 million users will be able to access Groupon daily deals through the "deals" tab of its…
