One area that is being profoundly influenced by mobile and cloud convergence is retailing – and the rise of Omni-Channel marketing. While the death of brick-and-mortar retail has been projected by some, the growing entry of the ki...
The idea that you can track a person’s location and movements within virtually any building or even very large enclosed space, and can provide a highly accurate map of the space – with no incremental investment in wireless infrast...
The Hexoskin smart shirt from Carré Technologies has received favorable attention as a wearable, even stylish, health and fitness tracking garment. But CEO Pierre-Alexandre Fournier recently emphasized to us, “We’re a software com...
Parking technology is a fairly big money business. Over the past four years, just three entrants in this business have raised $157 million of venture capital money. The companies are: Streetline (now controlled by Austria’s Kapsch...
There is an air of exceptional bitterness and nastiness in the fight over ad blocking, that is more characteristic of a political battle (e.g., Brexit, or the U.S. presidential campaign), than a typical business dispute. Ad blocke...
Mobile Cloud skills are being applied in sophisticated fashion in one of the most familiar businesses globally – Fast Food Restaurants. We recently spoke to Leszek James, founder and CEO of EZUniverse (EZU), whose service “360iQ” ...
According to a survey published by Proxbook, there were over 6 million active beacons globally, as of Q1 2016, with the great preponderance in North America and Europe. Interest in beacons has been growing, witness the advent of G...
Among the many exciting high-tech firms that have been founded in the last few years, VoltDB must be counted as high on the list. With fairly modest funding and a total payroll of 52 people, this in-memory, operational database ma...
In the Mobile Cloud Era, if you can identify major economic inefficiencies in established commercial practices and business models, you can then use the technology to come up with a new way of doing business. Take auto insurance. ...
Retail is one area under severe pressure to respond to the transformative changes driven by Mobile Cloud and other digital tech. The pain point is that traditional retail is directly challenged by ecommerce, a challenge that can n...
