We met Jeanniey Mullen at the highly successful and stimulating M1 Mobile-First Summit in New York, where she was a speaker on an expert panel on Wearables and Fashion. Mullen is founder of Yellow Bean, a mobile, digital and conte...
Sonic Notify provides a proximity marketing (e.g., in-store) platform, which incorporates beacons, Bluetooth and audio signaling, and a content management system (CMS) in the cloud. We spoke with CEO Aaaron Mittman about Sonic Not...
The recent M1 “Mobile-First” Summit in New York City was billed by organizers Nihal Mehta of Eniac Ventures and Gary Moon of Headwaters MB as a cutting edge event for the mobile industry and it definitely delivered on this promise...
Most commentary on major mergers appears to take a very short-term view: e.g., Apple buys Beats based on what it will add to near-term profits; or, in the case of AT&T-DirecTV, AT&T is just trying to add customers or pare ...
There’s nothing puzzling about Apple’s rumored acquisition of Beats Electronics (assuming the deal takes place) despite a torrent of questioning and negative comments in the press and the financial community. The rumored acquisiti...
Synchronoss (SNCR) has been identified for several years as a leading “enabler” to carriers, (also referred to as a “service provider IT vendor”) with their leading role in mobile activations and, recently, in cloud related areas....
Samsung has recently (April 16, 2014) once again stated its plans to launch a Tizen-based smartphone – this year. While we believe that the tipping point has finally been reached for Samsung to move ahead with Tizen in the marketp...
The science of Internet search is a world unto itself. The marketplace leader, Google, with over 70% share, and other major players such as Bing and Yahoo, expend $100’s of millions, if not billions, in the research and developmen...
Funambol claims that its OneMediaHub is the premier white label personal cloud offering. The primary market being addressed currently is the mobile carrier market. Funambol announced in January that they had signed up eight of the...
For an in-depth look at where Watson is headed, we spoke with Carlos Paez, Lead Mobile Developer, MobileFirst Global Center of Competence. Where does Watson stand today? At this time IBM is concerned with building an ecosystem aro...
