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Slack is one of the fastest growing business applications in history with its technology fast transforming workplace culture across the US. We are delighted that Anna Pickard, Slack’s Editorial Director, will be speaking at the BSSP and Contagious Now/Next/Why Conference to be held on June 9th...
We are delighted that Doug Ziewacz from Under Armour’s Connected Fitness division will be joining us on June 9th as a speaker. Under Armour is a perfect fit for the conference’s theme of “Obsessing Experience” as it has been blazing quite a trail in this space with the acquisitions earlier...
How Amazon’s Dash is just the start of a brand new world of brand communication Amazon’s launch of its Dash Button took everyone by surprise, as it seemed to be a little too much rampant “consumerism” for many and for others, it was a wake-up call that “The Internet of Things” had...
Not everyone thought Facebook would make a smooth transition into the mobile world, but boy have they done it and with a degree of dominance that couldn’t have been predicted. Facebook’s mobile advertising now costs seven times more than average. The reason is data; Facebook knows so much about...
What often characterizes a great company from the merely good, is its ability to continue to innovate well beyond the original premise. While Uber’s global expansion, recent lawsuits and tarnished brand image could easily be weigh down even the most robust company and force a pause on innovation,...
At yesterday’s MI Summit in New York that brilliantly assembled an interesting array of the mobile ecosystem, (agencies, start-ups, VCs, data experts, etc.), speaker after speaker commented about the growth of the smartphone and its expanding global base of multiple billions of users. However,...
Why is some social content shared more than others? A team led by Justin Cheng at Stanford with others from Facebook and Cornell took on the question from a new angle. They studied 150k photos on Facebook and instead of examining how the photos spread from the onset, which other studies have done,...
Today, Spotify announced it was purchasing The Echo Nest- a Boston based company that knows a lot about music. The Echo Nest has built a team of music specialists, programmers and engineers who know the very soul and code that lies at the heart of music. They also know what we love and how we...
It’s rare that you have a week like this- two maverick disrupters- Facebook and Tesla, release news that they’re taking their revolutionary acts to the next level. The acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook for $19bn knocked us sideways and then came another killer punch; the story that...
What’s interesting and promising about the “internet of things”, is how it’s going to make our current experiences better. While many have complained and ridculed the idea of connecting a refrigerator to the internet by suggesting that it’s a complete waste of time,...
We are all very familiar with the overblown way technology is often portrayed in science fiction movies. These futuristic visions often involve technology’s intrusion into our daily lives via ubiquitous screens of all shapes and sizes. According to Wired, Spike Jonze’s new movie “Her”,...
While Target’s loss of 40 million customer records containing credit and debit card information made the headlines of most news organizations today, while deeply embarrassing for Target, I wonder if anyone really cares? The fact is that for the past 5 years, data breeches have been occurring with...
It’s not easy for large, traditional organizations to change, so it was inspiring to read the FT’s story this weekend on PWC’s cyber-security division. PWC is a company that’s had its fair share of issues over the years, most notably its involvement in the Enron scandal. In recently...
Image: A Party at ODEO http://www.flickr.com/photos/rayreadyray/49887109/ Nick Bilton’s new book, Hatching Twitter has been brilliantly marketed to coincide with the company’s upcoming IPO and while I can’t claim to have finished reading it, because it only came out yesterday, I have...
“In Silicon Valley, ideas are not in short supply. At every coffee shop, beer garden and technology conference, there are legions of start-up founders, like screenwriters clutching their scripts, desperate to show off an app or site that they believe will be the next big thing. Yet around 75...