Surprisingly, the prevailing attitude towards social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn is one of either ignorance or disdain. Many small businesses have not seen how much of the small and medium business world have begun to use these formerly consumer products for various business purposes. Social media hubs like Twitter, Facebook and [...]
Hipster is the newest in line of popular brands that have developed new ideas to improve upon the social media mobile photo sharing in the local market scene. Hipster has developed an iPhone app for this purpose. The difference with this app is that it is geared towards sending in digital postcards. Using the app [...]
Amazon, which initially started as a online book store that shared exclusive non-fiction stories and other short stories, went on to sell CDs, DVDs, softwares, toys, video games, apparels, furniture and MP3 downloads. Amazon is planning to launch a Netflix-like service which allows users to pay an annual fee so that they can get the [...]
The way we pay has changed three times in the past few thousand years. From coins to paper notes to plastic cards. Now, a mobile application developed by Google only for Sprint Nexus S 4G allows the user can make secure payments fast and convenient by simply tapping the phone on a pay-pass enabled terminal [...]
Steve Jobs has left Apple. I have expected to see stock prices crumble, Apple Geniuses to go rogue and iPhones to fall out of the sky; but despite the near-panic of nearly every Internet news station — its really not that big a deal, we will be fine (unless you own large amounts of Apple [...]
With the development of technology, it is also quite true that instability has also risen in the market. Especially, technology where creativity has an equal contribution, credits and responsibility gets mixed up quite a lot. A recent example could be seen when the popular mobile game – Angry Birds creator, Rovio, was sued by Lodsys [...]
What did I say about Apple in my previous articles? I always say that the name Apple itself sounds like King. Be it either of the Apples (fruit and smartphones), both of them are enticing. I guess Apple products get enticed day by day. Now the recent enticement to its throne is Hulu. Hulu is [...]
A few years in the technology world have made me believe that there is no such thing as a ‘happy customer’. There may be a temporarily satisfied one, but never happy. And that is exactly what Verizon realized, which has made them charge an increased ‘regulatory fee’ for their outgoing customers. It may just be [...]
An American based e-commerce company – LivingSocial, has grown swiftly in the past 4 years. Started in 2007 as a deal of the day company with just 4 employees, it gained reputation and has reached greater heights. Initially it had been doing services like PickYourFive & BuyYourFriendADrink daily deals which were launched in 2009, and [...]
Innovation is a term which comes naturally to Entrepreneurs. Needless to mention, today there is a rapid growth in start-ups and small companies. Leading organizations and big corporations though, are at a loss of innovating new products and services on a comparative note. A long time ago, entrepreneurs were taken so lightly and entrepreneurship was [...]