Brian Hughes
May 14, 2013
With the Upfront buying season about to start and the networks preparing to announce their line-ups next week, much has been said in the press about the decline of TV [...]
Brian Hughes
May 14, 2013
Last year, digital content players like Yahoo and YouTube established a series of upfront-like events (dubbed “newfronts”), the overarching message of which seemed to be “we’re in the programming business [...]
Emily Verkruyse
May 9, 2013
Last week, I took a nine-day road trip covering the west coast from San Diego to Seattle, a journey that shook up my everyday routine. Beyond the gorgeous views and [...]
Andy Maskin
May 1, 2013
A big theme on this, the final day of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013, has been hardware. On stage upstairs, Limor Fried of Adafruit sat down with TechCrunch to discuss her [...]
Alexander Rea
April 30, 2013
The web (not the Internet–that’s a different thing) turned 20 years old today. Even though it’s not old enough to drink (in the States) it’s sure changed the life of [...]
Andy Maskin
April 30, 2013
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, executives from Google, Facebook and Twitter were assembled on a panel to discuss advertising. The participants expressed some common views on the industry but also [...]
Andy Maskin
April 29, 2013
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed delivered an entertaining keynote touching on content, social networking and cats. The key theme was that many Internet users’ online behaviors [...]
Andy Maskin
April 28, 2013
“Team #10 needs a Leap Motion Controller. Does anyone have a Leap Motion Controller?” asks the man with the mic. Half a dozen hands go up. So goes the TechCrunch [...]
Tom Goodwin
April 11, 2013
There comes a time where naming conventions seem to hold back progress. If we still called music “cassettes” it would be hard to imagine the effect this would have had [...]
Tom Goodwin
April 9, 2013
Since about 2005, every year has been the year when mobile advertising was going to explode. In 2013 it’s expected Mobile Ad revenue will top $11.4bn after growing 20% in [...]
IPG Lab
April 1, 2013
One of the most buzzed-about fashion apps to come along in a while has officially launched today. Created by London startup Chapeau Labs, Bokenhat recommends the type of hat you [...]
IPG Lab
April 1, 2013
Silicon Valley has always been known for brain over brawn, but lurking in the shadows of the startup world are a handful of technerds that also put in some serious [...]
IPG Lab
April 1, 2013
Inspired by the backlash against Garden Spot High School’s “Gangnam Style” homage and other similar videos , YouTube today launched a new “Un-Watch” feature. Garden Spot’s clip has been described [...]
Tom Goodwin
March 25, 2013
Until the iWatch was rumored the continued need for people to talk about Apple, was a conversation fueled by rumors of a Apple TV. For me this felt like another [...]
IPG Lab
March 7, 2013
User interface design and UX is what you live for, whether you made that button in Photoshop or with CSS it’s always perfect. you spend more time zoomed in at [...]
Andy Maskin
February 28, 2013
Yesterday at Mobile World Congress, a panel of marketers and tech leaders discussed the role of mobile in the retail shopping experience. A number of interesting thoughts and insights emerged [...]
Tom Goodwin
February 28, 2013
Today we see yet another dazzling valuation of a website with a heavy user base, but no clear sense of how, when and how much money will soon flow in. [...]
Andy Maskin
February 28, 2013
In 2011 Tesco’s Home Plus stores launched a highly-praised installation in the Seoul subway, which allowed shoppers to scan a QR code and make purchases from their mobile device. At the lab, we’d always [...]
Andy Maskin
February 28, 2013
Yesterday afternoon at Mobile World Congress, a panel gathered to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing NFC in the retail space presently and in the near future. Before diving in [...]
Andy Maskin
February 28, 2013
Here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, NFC is a very big deal. So much so that they have created a whole special mechanism for entering the venue based on [...]
Andy Maskin
February 27, 2013
Caterpillar, famous for making dump trucks and cranes, has leant their brand to a ruggedized smartphone. The B15, announced this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, sports front and [...]
Andy Maskin
February 27, 2013
The Life Watch V, from the Israeli company LifeWatch and being exhibited here in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, is a pretty special Android phone. It has built in health [...]
Andy Maskin
February 27, 2013
On Tuesday a panel of mobile marketers gathered at Mobile World Congress to share their advice on what not to do in the realm of mobile marketing. Some of the [...]
Andy Maskin
February 27, 2013
On Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress a panel of visionary marketers shared some of their winning mobile brand strategies with the large gathered crowd. The highlights included: Recently Unilever [...]
Andy Maskin
February 27, 2013
This week at Mobile World Congress, Nokia unveiled the Nokia 105. This small phone includes a flashlight and a battery that lasts for about a month on standby mode, with [...]