Media, Digital and Mobile Business in a Global Economy
Mobile RSS: The Snatch Of The Content Value
Smartphones have drastically changed the way we consume news. And mobile news aggregators are the new winners of this race. But while offering an RSS feed, and in some cases, the full content without the publisher’s consent, is helpful to the end-user, it elbows news sources out of the value chain.
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Date: 10 Oct 2014
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Tags: App Store, Apple, Application, Funnel, Google, Google Play
Survive From The Deadly Mobile Application Funnel
Unlike a few years ago when the app market was in its infancy, the main challenge is no longer making it on to the virtual shelves, but rather surviving once a user downloads the app. The store is an easy threshold to reach. Once done, two other barriers block an application’s success, leading to the 99.998% death rate among apps.
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Date: 24 Sep 2014
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Tags: Apple iWatch, Apple Pay, Bank, Credit Card, iPhone 6, Visa
Apple’s One and Only Strategic Move: Apple Pay
Two weeks ago, at the Apple press event, the show went on, and each single announcement of new products or new features was supported by massive applause. Journalists covering the event were overwhelmingly positive about Apple’s new offerings. Apple did its Hollywood-like show, and demonstrated, with an unbelievable consistency, its amazing and unbeatable art of launching products.
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iPad Number of user is flat despite flow of million of new ipad
Device Fatigue: Is the rise of Larger Smartphones stifling iPad growth? 42 millions of iPads have been sold worldwide in 2014 so far, but the number of iPad users in the U.S. have remained relatively flat, growing only a humble 5 percent between January and April this year. What does this mean for Apple?
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Is Paper From Facebook To Be Tossed?
Why Are Users Tossing Facebook’s Paper Application? With only 119,000 monthly users(1) and 12 seconds of usage per user each month, Paper application gives us a lot to learn. On January 30th, 2014 a day after sharing its amazing 2013 earnings, Facebook introduced a new application named Paper.
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