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BII REPORT: Mobile Gaming's App Store Success
Gaming is one of the fastest-growing usage categories in mobile, with huge growth seen in Apple's iOS and Google's Android platforms.In particular, social mobile gaming, enabled by always-connected...
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Apple's Indispensable Employee, Bob Mansfield, Sold $20 Million Worth Of...
Apple's SVP of Technologies, Bob Mansfield, sold 35,000 shares last week at $582, netting himself ~$20.4 million, according to a SEC filing.Mansfield still has 29,548 shares, and as 9 to 5 Mac notes,...
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You Can Get Free Transportation For Life From Tesla* (TLSA)
Bargain-hunter, serial entrepreneur, and reformed journalist Jason Calacanis thinks we're all missing out an a huge deal: you can get free transportation for life from Tesla.Of course, a Tesla will run...
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Staples Will Offer In-Store 3D Printing (SPLS)
Staples, the ubiquitous office supply store and print shop, will expand to offer in-store 3D printing services, reports The Register.The service will be called "Staples Easy 3D." Customers will upload...
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Let's Be Real: Snapchat Is Totally Used For Sexting
When we first heard about Snapchat, the photo-sharing app that lets you set how long the recipient can view a picture for, we immediately thought that it must be used for sexting.Sexting is the...
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The Latest Slap In The Face For Microsoft... (MSFT, AAPL, AMZN, FB, GOOG)
What's missing from this week's Economist cover?Microsoft! Ouch.This is just the latest slap in the face for Microsoft, which despite its best effort to crack search with Bing and the tablet market...
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This Idea About A Universal Marketplace Of The Future Can Bury Amazon
Imagine if you can buy anything you see on Instagram, Pinterest or anywhere on the web with just one click.Scott Belsky, founder of Behance, a photo sharing and promotion startup for artists and visual...
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Billionaire SAP Cofounder Hasso Plattner Will Sell $155 Million Worth Of Its...
Enterprise software company SAP is in the midst of a big successful, makeover, moving into cloud, mobile and seeing Hana, its in-memory database, become the fastest-growing product in the company's...
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These Awesome iPad Magazines Are Killing Print (AAPL)
It's no secret that print media's seen better days.But the magazine industry has its own secret history of innovation and reinvention.In 1953, for example, Life magazine chartered a jet plane and put a...
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BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: A Guide To Mobile Web Design Best Practices
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.Mobile Web...
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Zynga Just Can't Win (ZNGA, FB)
Mark Pincus just can't figure out how to play Wall Street's game.Zynga's stock is down 7 percent Friday morning after the online-games maker announced major changes Thursday afternoon to its agreement...
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We Don't Recommend It, But Here's How To Use The Latest Sexting App
Snapchat, a photo-sharing app, has seen massive growth since launching last year in September.We are convinced that that runaway growth has a lot to do with features that make it ideal for sexting, or...
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Google Is Going On An Acquisition Spree To Compete With Amazon (GOOG, AMZN)
Google just bought Bufferbox, a Canadian startup which sets up lockers to receive e-commerce shipments. TechCrunchreports the purchase price as $17 million.The deal shows how important e-commerce is...
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Tech Mogul John McAfee Dropped An F-Bomb Live On CNBC In His Latest Interview...
This afternoon, CNBC scored another interview with John McAfee.McAfee, the wealthy creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, claims to be hiding out from the Belizian government, which has charged...
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Everyone's Laughing At Jos A Bank's Latest Promotion Where You Get A Free...
Men's suit maker Jos. A. Bank is well known for its outrageous promotions. One of their current promotions is 70% off all suits and tuxedos. A recent promotion offered Buy 1, Get 2 Free of anything in...
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Evernote Does An $85 Million Deal, Cashing Out Employees And Investors
Evernote, the online note-taking service, is often talked about as an IPO candidate.By people other than CEO Phil Libin, that is, who has steadfastly maintained that he wants to put off going public as...
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Developers Pay Amazon $1,100 And Get A Meager $5 Gift Card (AMZN)
Amazon has a reputation for cheapness. Most of the time, that's good.Not so when you're trying to court developers, however—especially those who paid $1,100 to attend a conference.Attendees got $5 of...
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Time Warner CEO Debunks The Myth Of The Cord-Nevers
We've all heard the stories of the cord-cutters, giving up cable to save money and to become more productive.But despite these anecdotes, the cord-cutting trend has not caught up en mass and paid TV...
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CHART: Why Media Companies Are Slow To Adopt E-Commerce
Media companies know they need to add e-commerce to their business model to survive. They just don’t have enough money or in-house expertise to create an entirely new e-commerce division, according to...
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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner's Two-Part Recipe For Success
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner was constantly told by his dad that he could do anything he put his mind to.While this advice turn out to be true in Weiner's case, he says that willing one's way into a career...
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