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Mobile Minutes: Twitter automates Amplify; Apple’s augmented reality; Pebble wearable stalls; GoPro’s virtual reality

By | May 31st, 2015|Mobile|

Today in mobile marketing - Twitter automates 'Amplify', as it pushes the live-video ad product into news, entertainment; Apple buys a maker of futuristic augmented-reality software; Kickstarter darling Pebble may be in a rough patch; GoPro unveils vir...

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Platform Pulse: What Google’s app indexing for iOS means for marketers

By | May 31st, 2015|Mobile|

Google’s I/O event for developers overshadows last week’s other mobile platform news, with the announcement that application indexing is now available for Google searches on iOS devices likely to have a significant impact on how users discover content and applications.

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Mobile Minutes: Uber vs. Lyft; Jawbone sues Fitbit; Huawei’s smartphone growth; Health-monitoring wearable

By | May 28th, 2015|Mobile|

Today in mobile marketing - Uber and Lyft fight proposed NYC rules – and each other; Jawbone sues Fitbit, alleges theft of trade secrets; China's Huawei sees strong smartphone growth in southeast Asia; This wearable prototype can see through skin to scan your blood.

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Mary Meeker spotlights messaging apps’ potential as central communications hubs

By | May 28th, 2015|Mobile|

Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report forecasts that messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Snapchat have the potential to become central communications hubs as they quickly grow and expand.

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Project Brillo unlikely to scrub Android off mobile map, despite Google fanfare

By | May 28th, 2015|Mobile|

Project Brillo, Google’s latest attempt to unify the disparate technologies of the Internet of Things, has a stronger chance of gaining acceptance than its quietly abandoned predecessor Android@Home did, by providing both interconnectivity and the base for developing apps across devices.

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