Video gaming has continued to increase in popularity over the last few decades. Its growth has led to experts in traditional home entertainment voicing concerns that it could severely limit the growth of television, radio and print media. Before the turn of the millennium, video games revenue was estimated at $2.6 billion in the UK. […]
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Mobile Brain Health Platform Savonix Raises $1.5 Million Seed
Mental health platform aims to digitize and democratize expensive analog evidence-based cognitive assessment brain health tools. Savonix Inc., the developer of an evidence based digital neuro-cognitive assessment and brain health platform announced today the closing of $1.5 million in seed round funding. Savonix plans to use the investment to hire key talent and to launch and […]
How Social Trends, Tools and Apps Have Changed the Wedding Industry
The wedding industry has been rooted in tradition for centuries. Wedding traditions, like the wearing of the bridal veil, have been in existence since ancient Judaic times, while other traditions, such as the lighting of the unity candle or the wearing of a white wedding gown, are fairly new. Because the industry consists of lots of […]
Interview: Storytelling in Mobile Advertising
Now in its sixth year, the Mobile Media Summit led by CEO and Founder, Paran Johar, is the largest mobile media and advertising conference series in North America and Europe. The events feature advertising’s best technologies, and are regularly attended by the industry’s top brands, agencies and mobile innovators. To date, over 10,000 have attended one or more shows. Paran Johar recently interviewed Vaino […]
High Fashion Turns High Tech with Resale Mobile Apps
The resale revolution has gone high-tech! Gone are the days of rummaging through picked-over bins of beaten up clothing in dingy, dimly-lit stores. Today’s woman wants the hot, designer brands at a fraction of the retail price without spending all day trying to create the perfect outfit. That’s why Clothes Mentor, one of the nation’s […]
Augmented and Virtual Reality Slated to Drive $150 Billion in Revenue
Augmented reality and virtual reality share some common drivers according to the latest report from Digi-Capital. The societal problems and technological challenges each solves, however, are very different. In Digi-Capital’s new Augmented/Virtual Reality Report Q2 2015, the company now segments the “reality” hardware market with a deep dive into critical success factors, technology/business drivers and early market leaders. […]
Measuring ROI in Collaborative Project Management Platforms
As published to Huffington Post Ten years ago, when I was a product manager at Intel, the state of the art in project management was isolated, desktop tools like Microsoft Project that required logging and tracking what everyone was doing. We would hold long meetings where everyone in the project took turns updating action items […]
Four Vastly Different Industries Primed for Wearable Tech
As published to Entrepreneur Wearable technology got its greatest initial growth in the fitness industry, and it’s come a long way since 1984’s Casio’s Databank calculator watches. The true line of demarcation was introduction of 2008’s original FitBit, with true industry validation and surge generated by the Nike Fuel band in early 2012. Three years later, […]