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How customers are changing the app world (and how you can keep them engaged)

It’s going to take more than just a few push notifications to stay on your customer’s mobile device “There’s an app for that.” That phrase has become shorthand for our current reality; these days, consumers depend on their mobile devices for everything from reviews to price comparisons. And this trend is growing: according to Pew Research,...

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Is the Gear VR’s successor preparing to launch?

A Dutch fan club website has obtained a document hinting at just that Only two months are left before the first anniversary of the Gear VR’s unveiling, but new rumors recently posted on the web give the impression that Samsung is already working on a successor to its virtual reality glasses. A Dutch fan club...

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How Drake can help you understand your business

APTOS, CA - FEBRUARY 27: Dr. Frank Drake, the founder of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), poses for a portrait at his home in Aptos, California, Friday, February 27, 2015. Dr. Drake also created the Arecibo Message - a simple binary encoded message broadcast into space by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 1974. The message encodes several things: the numbers 1 to 10, the basic chemistry of life on Earth, the double helix structure of DNA, Earth's population, a graphic of the Solar System, a human figure, and a graphic of the Arecibo radio telescope and it's dish' dimensions. (Photo by Ramin Rahimian for The Washington Post via Getty Images) As a founder or someone working in a startup, the main priority is always staying alive. Every ounce of your budget needs to be spent efficiently. It’s all about difficult decisions, and some of them can be messy and complex. With options coming from every angle, you need to find ways to make them as simple as possible. This is where our good friend Drake comes in. Read More

Simversity’s Neeraj Bansal talks about the future of education

oldschool This week on Technotopia I talked to Neeraj Bansal the co-founder of education startup Simversity. He has a deep understanding of what it takes to build an online education platform and he also notes that the only jobs worth having in the future are the ones that can’t be replaced by machine learning.
Education right now, he says, is a form of data replication. But when computers and… Read More

How to get your photos featured on Apple’s Shot on iPhone billboards

shot-on-iphone- Been anywhere near a billboard recently? You’ve probably seen some magnificent photographs with “Shot on iPhone” plastered underneath. As a photographer, you’ve probably felt a pang of envy; why aren’t your photos up there for the world to see? I tracked down one of the photographers in the current campaign to find out how his images came to be featured in the… Read More

HelloMD looks to its ‘Quora for cannabis’ as a source of growth

IMG_9118 I’m in Canada, and I’m having a conversation about weed. So far, everything’s tracking. But this isn’t just a casual convo — HelloMD is a startup focused on health, community and access to information, and they’re based in the U.S. (with people in SF and Colorado). And while the core business began as a way to use telemedicine to connect doctors with… Read More