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Social Commerce Spotlight: Fashion? There’s a Snapp for that
September 23, 2011 – 8:30 am | No Comment
Social Commerce Spotlight: Fashion? There’s a Snapp for that

Billed as an ‘Instagram for shoppers’, new social commerce iPhone app Snapette is proving a huge success with fashionistas around the world.

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Social commerce spotlight: Pizza? There’s an app for that
September 2, 2011 – 10:26 am | No Comment
Social commerce spotlight: Pizza? There’s an app for that

As tech developers continue with their seemingly relentless crusade to turn us all into amoebic, sofa-dwelling blobs mashing at touch screens to sate our every whim and desire, Domino’s Pizza have launched an iPad app on the UK market.

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Fancy a free pizza? PizzaExpress teams with PayPal UK on just such an app
June 16, 2011 – 11:43 am | 3 Comments
Fancy a free pizza? PizzaExpress teams with PayPal UK on just such an app

Remember all those predictions last decade that we’d be able to use our mobile phone to buy petrol or cab fare, or pizza? Alas, those soothesayers forgot to mention it would be a feature of everyday life in Scandinavia or South Korea, but for the rest of us – too bad. Well, we’re getting a bit closer to this day now that PizzaExpress has teamed with PayPal UK on a new iPhone app that allows you to go one better: you can pay your bill and book a table at a nearby location.

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CHART: Europe’s love affair with Apple iOS
April 22, 2011 – 2:17 pm | No Comment
CHART: Europe’s love affair with Apple iOS

Part of Apple’s phenomenal growth story over the last decade can be seen here in Europe. A decade ago, Euro Mac addicts were hard to spot. Now they seem to be everywhere. Fittingly, it’s Apple gadgets like iPhone, iPod and iPad leading the charge with mobile-mad Europeans.

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Social media funding: Color, a new social network, lands mega funding
March 30, 2011 – 1:29 pm | No Comment
Social media funding: Color, a new social network, lands mega funding

Color is a new (launched March 23) photo-sharing social network for the smartphone crowd. The network is novel in that it has no privacy settings or friending capabilities, but instead organizes and presents user photos based on relevancy, location and interests.

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Social media funding: Rovio Mobile bowls over VCs
March 22, 2011 – 4:43 pm | One Comment
Social media funding: Rovio Mobile bowls over VCs

Rovio has recently been crowned the leading mobile game apps developer, popular (or soon to be) on all mobile platforms [More...] – iPhone, Android, Microsoft and Nokia. Its most famous production, Angry Birds, was downloaded 50 million times across a handful of mobile platforms, making it one of the most popular mobile games of 2010.

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Fortune 50 companies are truly mobile-phobic
December 16, 2010 – 8:37 am | No Comment
Fortune 50 companies are truly mobile-phobic

That’s the conclusion we draw from the latest Burson-Marsteller research into how companies are adapting to the mobile web. Despite the explosion in smart phone usage and the innovative mobile apps that are transforming industry sectors, many of the world’s largest companies are sitting on the sidelines.

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SMI’s shopping apps review: Part II
November 18, 2010 – 1:38 pm | One Comment
SMI’s shopping apps review: Part II

‘Tis the season for launching new mobile retail applications. Here is the second installment of our shopping apps review, a look at some of the latest entries that are trying to change the way you tackle your holiday splurge.

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Social shopping apps: we review the best of the bunch
November 2, 2010 – 9:44 am | 6 Comments
Social shopping apps: we review the best of the bunch

Yes, it’s still a week to go before the Christmas lights are “officially” illuminated along Regent Street, but we want to get a jump on the season anyhow with our first (of many) reviews of the latest social shopping apps to hit the market in recent weeks. Here, we review Starbucks, Amazon, Walmart, and Debenhams, grading each.

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Europeans’ BIG attraction to video on the small screen
September 30, 2010 – 9:20 am | No Comment
Europeans’ BIG attraction to video on the small screen

No doubt helped by the World Cup and the explosion in smartphone usage, mobile video consumption is booming in much of Europe with the UK and Italy leading the way, new comScore research shows. Roughly two-thirds of all smartphone users use the handset to view video, the data show, either via a mobile TV subscription or by accessing video-sharing sites (or, their apps) such as YouTube.

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