Posted on 10 March 2012
There was more than meets the eye with this week’s rebranding of Android Market as Google Play . Accompanying the new name and look is a shift in how the store is being managed. Eric Chu , who has worked on the Android team for four-and-a-half years, is stepping away from overseeing Android’s app store and is exploring other options inside Google. Jamie Rosenberg, who has been a director of digital content for Android and was the public face for the Google Music launch , gets increased oversight for apps and games inside the store.
Tags: apps, because-rubin, complexity, david-conway, digital-content, Facebook, google-play, inside, inside-social, jamie-rosenberg, Mobile, store
Posted on 10 March 2012
Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Uzi Shmilovici , the founder and CEO and founder of Future Simple , the company behind Base CRM . The first image that comes to my mind when I think about business computing is the dystopic scene from the 1984 Apple commercial : A swarm of employees wearing the same uniforms and marching in unison into their offices where they are forced to use certain devices and software. They sit down in front of their PCs, open a business application their company paid millions of dollars to implement and, in a disciplined manner, fill out forms to populate the company’s database so their managers will be happy
Tags: apple, consumerization, dystopic, employees, enterprise, Facebook, freedom, News, sap, Social Media, work
Posted on 10 March 2012
6 drinks for an 160-pound, 30-year-old male? That’ll take 2 days off your lifespan.
Tags: 100plus, apps, drinks-at-sxsw, Facebook, functionality, life, lifestyle, Mobile, practice-fusion, preview-the-app, steal-the-idea, sxsw, weeks-on-html5, wtf
Posted on 10 March 2012
Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Doug Pepper , who is a General Partner at InterWest Partners where he invests in SaaS, mobile, consumer internet and digital media companies.
Tags: enterprise, Facebook, focused-on-high, general-partner, investment, linkedin, Mobile, opinion, public, saas, sexy, strong-trading, successfactors
Posted on 10 March 2012
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board , including positions at Power Reviews , GREE International, Inc.
Tags: corporate-sales, developer, director, Facebook, flash-developer, infrastructure, inside-network, manager, Mobile, News, product-manager, science, Video
Posted on 10 March 2012
Right now the enterprise software space is growing rapidly, but so are the number of users who need it, especially freelancers, independent contractors, consultants, and developers.
Tags: enterprise, Facebook, growing, growing-demands, harvest, shelling-out, storm, users
Posted on 10 March 2012
Part of the long-running (and far from over) SOPA/PIPA battle was the drawing of lines in the sand by internet companies.
Tags: assets-or-tools, drawing, Facebook, integrity, internet, most-recognized, solution-people, wikimedia, wikipedia
Posted on 10 March 2012
The “buspreneurs” have arrived in Austin! The StartupBus, which began a four-day journey from San Francisco/Silicon Valley on Tuesday morning, completed the final leg of the voyage yesterday. The teams of entrepreneurs hoping to debut new products at South by Southwest Interactive arrived by way of San Antonio, where they received an enthusiastic welcome at Rackspace. “We live in a magic moment of innovation and entrepreneurship right now,” remarked Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier as the StartupBus teams took another break from the road.
Tags: austin-as-well, california, entrepreneurs, mexico, road, startupbus, sxsw, Video, whirlwind
Posted on 10 March 2012
Not missing an opportunity to make an impression upon hipsters, Mobli is going to squeeze all the juice it can get out of SXSW with a major app revamp, and a party in Austin to boot. Mobli, which counts Leonardo DiCaprio as one of its investors ( $4M funding to date ), is dubbing the new version, ‘Mobli 2.0′.
Tags: apps, dubbing-the-new, even-real-time, express-enough, from-the-ground, impression-upon, mobli, see-screenshot
Posted on 10 March 2012
Jack McKenna here, checking in from South By Southwest to support my old buddy Paul Carr.
Tags: afternoon, book, characteristic, Facebook, hollywood, london, News, over-the-years, pick-the-best, reading, screen-shot, startups, tells-the-story, time, uninitiated