HOROWITZ: How To Build A Great Culture At Your Startup
Ask 10 founders about company culture and what it means and you’ll get 10 different answers.It’s about office design, it’s about screening out the wrong kinds of employees, it’s about values, it’s...
View ArticleNew iOS Game, (THRED), Helps Raise Awareness Of HIV-Infected Moms
BitMonster Games' free-to-play iPhone and iPad title, (THRED), comes with an in-app purchase that costs $209.99. Under normal circumstances, such a price is exorbitant, but as you'll soon learn,...
View ArticleBrazilian Company Launches Android 'iPhones' After Winning Right To Name
SAO PAULO (AP) — It's not your Apple's iPhone.A Brazilian company has begun selling smartphones with the iPhone brand after winning the legal right to use the name in Latin America's biggest country....
View ArticleThe Absent Bartender
I'd like to apologize for being mostly absent during two back to back fantastic conversations here over the past two days.It's one thing to take 30 minutes to compose some thoughts at 5am in the...
View ArticleRavensword: Shadowlands Review (iPhone, iPad)
Crescent Moon's Ravensword: Shadowlands is the closest you'll get to playing an open-world Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim experience on iOS, with beautiful environments, elaborately-crafted castles,...
View ArticleRavensword: Shadowlands Cheats And Tips
In Ravensword: Shadowlands, Crescent Moon Games provides a brief tutorial that covers the basics, then throws you into a massive virtual world populated with bears, trolls, goblins and other nasty...
View ArticleMy Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Update Adds New Characters, Winter-Themed...
In the spirit of the season, Gameloft released a generous update for its free-to-play adventure,My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Available now for iOS and coming to Android December 28, the new...
View Article(THRED) Interview With BitMonster's Lee Perry: Preventing The Spread Of HIV...
While perusing the iOS App Store this week searching for games to download, be sure to give(THRED) some attention. Created by Lili developer BitMonster Games, in collaboration with Coca-Cola and (RED),...
View ArticleFun Friday: Doing Good
Tyrone suggested this fun friday theme to me. He was inspired by Scott Harrison's talk at LeWeb.The question in Tyrone's words is "what is everyone doing this Holiday for someone else, probably best if...
View ArticleSelling Motorola’s TV Group: a Strategic Mistake for Google?
Dear RSS reader, Due to high amount of copying by spammers, I've been forced to move this RSS feed from full feed to a more limited offering. Drop me a note if you want access to a an alternate feed...
View ArticleAnomaly Korea Review (iOS, Android)
Many iOS and Android developers avoid putting the number "2" at the end of their games, perhaps to avoid the grand expectations that come from fans hungry for sequels. Instead of the Cut the Rope 2,...
View ArticlePudding Monsters Review (iOS, Android)
The talented developers at ZeptoLab face the same challenge as Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment, that being the task of convincing people that it's more than a one-hit wonder.Cut the Rope was a...
View ArticleReturn Of The Series A Crunch
Today’s big VC brands were built by funding start-ups from birth to acquisition, IPO, or death; whichever came first. There were no Y-Combinators and other microVCs. But it isn’t true that “lean”...
View ArticleThe Mobile Enterprise in 2013: Getting Down to Business
Over the last 12 months, there have been a handful of acquisitions of mobile start-ups like RapSphere* (by Appsense), Nukona (by Symantec) and most recently Zenprise (by Citirix) that help enterprises...
View ArticleiOS And Android Games Of The Week: December 21, 2012
It's been a great week for iOS and Android, with a variety of puzzle, action, adventure and strategy games for players of all ages. That made today's picks difficult, but eventually, we had to give...
View ArticleThe Simpsons: Tapped Out- Most Controversial iOS Game Of 2012
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." The Godfather: Part IIIIf we were to ask someone to list the controversial video games of 2012, he or she would probably name the violent ones. In...
View ArticleA Surprising Winner Arose From The Instagram-Twitter Spat
BABBAGE'S inbox was swamped one recent morning with hundreds of e-mail notifications. Various friends and acquaintances wanted to add him as a contact on Flickr, a photo-sharing service which once set...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: NY Enterprise Tech Meetup Talk
Earlier this week I attended and spoke at the NY Enterprise Tech Meetup. My talk was based on the Networks and Enterprises post I wrote this past August. The "talk" portion is about 20 minutes, and the...
View ArticleGoogle And Motorola Are Working On A Top-Secret 'X Phone' To Beat The iPhone...
(Reuters) - Google Inc is working with recently acquired Motorola on a handset codenamed "X-phone", aimed at grabbing market share from Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleAND THE SURVEY SAYS... "Mobile First" Is A Dumb Strategy
There has been a lot of talk over the past couple of years about how laptops and desktops are toast and everything's going mobile.As a result, the prevailing wisdom is that companies should...
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