Category#mobile

Facebook’s big bet on mobile

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From today’s public filing for Facebook, the following sentence was listed as one of the risks. We believe that mobile usage of Facebook is critical to maintaining user growth and engagement over the long term, and we are actively seeking to grow mobile usage, although such usage does not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue. It’s important to note that they currently...

Get ready for Amazon Stores

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With the rise of mobile powered commerce, brick and mortar stores now have a distinct advantage. When I say mobile powered commerce I mean. Mobile commerce – $4 billion for eBay this year Mobile transactions – buying something in the store with your mobile phone. Square or Google Wallet are great examples Social Commerce – Click here for an organic example Location-based...

Question from The Purplelist

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I’m a huge fan of PSKF and I’m also a member of their expert network, The Purplelist. I was asked a great question today by Scott Lachut and thought I’d share it because events and fans are some of these most exciting aspects of the emerging mobile market: Recently listened to an interview with Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard, in which he discussed the future of live events...

Geeking out with my Wife!

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So . . . today, my wife says, “Hey honey. Why don’t we go to Red Rocks and take some pictures on Instagram and publish them to Foursquare. After my brain did several summer-salts for a couple of seconds I tried to figure out when the aliens had managed to grab my wife and replaced her with exact replica AND if they were going to bring my real wife back soon. Almost all joking aside...