According to Andreesen Horowitz analyst Benedict Evans internet companies, who used to “do mobile” as an afterthought, are already beginning to shift from “mobile first”; prioritising building things for mobile that often never found their way back onto the desktop; to “an evolution beyond mobile first”. …
Best Of The Press (Releases) Part II; Only One More Sleep Until You Get To Make “The Biggest Decision Of Your Life”; The Left Say In; The Right Say Out; Just say okey dokey (and make sure you don’t vote out?)
Yes, there’s a big vote taking place tomorrow and if you read on we will share the thoughts of some of the “Techerati” on Brexit, but before we do that let’s have a shizzle through what’s been dropping into Haggerston Times’ virtual postbox so far this week. Do Millennials trust and like tech more than …
2 Days’ Left To Pick Up Extra-Discounted Tickets For Open Mobile Summit In June – Save £200!
you’ve heard that mobile is the future – so how do your products compare with the rest of the market and how can you find out? Maybe at the Open Mobile Summit… Calling all mobile product developers! On June 27th-28th The Open Mobile Summit Europe returns to London, at the Crowne Plaza in the City …
MWC ’16 – The Best Bits
We talked about Zuckerberg; we discussed 4YFN; we looked at what happened after hours in Barcelona’s bars and hotels; so now that Mobile World Congress is over for another year in Spain (although it starts all over again in July, in Shanghai, with the theme “Mobile Is Me”) it’s time to look at the key …
Postcard from Barcelona: 4YFN, MWC and Swedish Beers!
When one door closes, another opens; ticket holders at 4YFN, Barcelona’s mobile start-up conference are flooding through the doors of big brother MWC 2016 today to join the nearly 100,000 fellow attendees to have walked the halls and floors of this gigantic, genre-defining conference, sniffing out opportunities, making contacts and signing contracts that will secure …
London Or Barcelona? Mobile or Fashion?
The Bright Lights of Barcelona – Freddie Mercury would be proud Next week Londoners will take on the Catalans in an unofficial battle for Europe’s coolest city; Mark Zuckerberg will be headlining MWC 2016 in Barcelona, one of the world’s largest mobile and tech conferences, whilst London Fashion Week kicks off in London today. …
Facebook Says You Don’t Need A Mobile Phone Number Anymore
So that’s what Messenger is for – ever since Facebook decided access to their messaging app would be through a separate app to their main site, speculation has been rife as to what Zuckerberg, Sandberg and the crew at Menlo Park were up to. Well it seems that since they couldn’t get a successful Facebook …
#FintechStorm discusses online payments, asks if banks are losing ground in the battle for financial services
Haggerston Times thinks of Arifa Khan as the voice of Fintech in London, and the Fintech Storm, which she organises, as the best place in London to find unbiased, open and high level discussion of what FinTech means and how it is currently trending. Arifa has an open and daring personality which always makes her …
The future is mobile! KPMG, alongside UKTI, are sending the best of British mobile start-ups to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
KPMG are collaborating with UKTI and helping to exploit the phenomenal recent growth in the mobile applications space, by sending 8 of the most promising UK based mobile start-ups to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona; the initiative began with over 60 applicants, whittled down to a shortlist of 20 companies, with 8 finalists eventually …
Chelsea apps talks season begins with visit from Mansoor Hanif, Director of RAN & Programmes at EE
The Meetup phenomenon must have done wonders for rooms above pubs. One wonders what they were ever used for back in the dark ages when people went straight home after work and sat sadly in their living rooms, curtains drawn, bathed in the glow of the telly, waiting for Newsnight to finish so that they …