Category: Mobile
Steve Jobs stats from WWDC
If you don’t have time to watch the full WWDC Keynote by Steve Jobs here are some very interesting stats Steve mentioned: – Approximately 15,000 apps are submitted to the AppStore each week, of these 95% are approved within 7 days – The top 3 reasons for an application being rejected from the App store […]
Read More | ShareAdMob CEO Omar Hamoui on Google and Apple
AdMob is the only real major advertising platform on the current iPhones and iPads. However with Apple announcing news term of service is iOS4 this means any 3rd party applications cannot send data to a 3rd party provider like AdMob does. This could mean Apple shuts AdMob out of the iPhone and iPad markets which […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare CEO Dennis Crowley a grown up Justin Bieber?
Is it just me, or does Dennis Crowley look like a grown up Justin Bieber? Maybe their hair looks similar. Does anyone if Dennis does a ‘cute’ hair flick like Justin? I think there is some sort of resemblance going on 🙂 What do you think? Do you even care? 😮
Read More | ShareFoursquare CEO Dennis Crowley disses Google
Dennis Crowley the CEO and Co-Founder of mobile Geo-location start-up Foursquare has been known as an outspoken tech enthusiast. Dennis sold his last start-up, Dodgeball, a mobile check-in service similar to Google. The product sat inside Google’s den but not much was made of it, not doubt not getting the full amount of attention Dennis […]
Read More | ShareChina Blocks Foursquare
The Chinese government has blocked access to Foursquare. Yesterday marked the 21st anniversary of the infamous Tiananmen Square protests where more than 3,000 protesters were killed by the Chinese Government. This topic has since been banned from conversation, online or offline by the Chinese government. There has been an influx of Tiananmen Square checkins of late with a […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare specials do attract customers in Sydney and Australia
We have seen the success of retailers and restaurants in the US using Foursquare as a marketing tool, but in Australia we have not seen all that much action yet. However, I noticed Wagamama in Sydney CBD has been one of the earlier businesses in Australia to use Foursquare as a marketing tool. The have […]
Read More | ShareTelstra launches Tribe® social networking tool
Exclusive to Telstra customers – a new social networking tool called Tribe® has been launched. Tribe® aggregates your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace into one single interface where you can access all sites from. Telstra customers simply browse to http://tribe.telstra.com from their mobile browser to access this feature, and there are no data / usage costs, […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare reaches 10 check-ins per second
Checking my Twitter account i just noticed the below tweet by Foursquare. Globally Foursquare is now generating 10 check-ins per second. ie. – 600 per minute – 36,000 per hour – 864,000 per day Almost a million check-ins per day! I am sure they will reach that milestone soon. Remember when it was a big […]
Read More | ShareGoogle-AdMob Deal Approved
The Federal Trade Commission in the United States has finally approved Google’s purchase of mobile advertising company Ad-Mob. In a blog post Google wrote: ‘We’ll now begin the process of bringing our products and teams together in the best way, and building new products and features together,’ ‘We’re working to make this integration happen as […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare in Sydney Australia
Foursquare has over a million registered users globally now. Of these users, what sort of demographic has the highest usage? if you are a business using Foursquare to target customers and see their feedback – what sort of people are you reaching out to? In order the judge the popularity of Foursquare amongst users in […]
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