Mobile
Spotify Spending Big on Podcasts (Marketplace)
Spotify announced Wednesday that it’s purchasing The Ringer. On Spotify’s earnings call CEO Daniel Ek talked about escalating user numbers and his excitement about the recent a... More
Twitter Hits 152M Daily Users, Stock Soars (Billboard)
Social media giant Twitter on Thursday reported fourth-quarter earnings and revenues, underpinned by improved growth as its number of daily active users rose 21 percent to reach 15... More
Sony Music Expands Footprint in Podcast Market (Billboard)
Sony Music is further expanding its footprint in the podcast world through a global partnership with Somethin' Else, the U.K.'s biggest independent audio and podcast producer. Term... More
Arsenal Football Club Transforms Live Video Backhaul With AWS (MESA)
Since its founding in 1886, UK-based Football Club Arsenal has garnered an estimated fanbase of more than 100 million worldwide, and today, social media and digital video play a cr... More
Quibi’s Giant Bets (Monday Note)
Quibi is the boldest venture Hollywood has seen in its recent history. It involves multiple breakthroughs in every area: narrative, production and the business model. Here is a bre... More
How Verizon 5G and the NFL are Reinventing Mobile Gaming (Personal Tech)
As the football season marches toward one final showdown, an equally fierce competition has been raging away from the gridiron. Part of a two-year innovation partnership, Verizon a... More
Verizon, NFL Partner on New NFL OnePass App Features for Super Bowl LIV (MESA)
As part of their innovation partnership, Verizon and the NFL have jointly developed applications that will come to life for fans at Hard Rock Stadium within the NFL OnePass app. Al... More
It’s a Subscription World Now: Top 100 App Subscription Revenue Surged to $4.6B Last Year in the U.S. Alone (Fast Company)
If you’re one of the people who laments how every digital service seems to be moving toward a subscription-based model, we’ve got some bad news for you: Consumer willingness to... More
Apple Could Promote TV+ With Companion Podcasts (Engadget)
Apple has considered producing podcasts to support its slate of original TV+ shows and movies, according to Bloomberg. The company reportedly sent out a call for pitches last summe... More
Security Chips From G+D Mobile Security Protect Professional Devices From Miele (MESA)
Embedded Secure elements from G+D Mobile Security are now part of Miele's connected professional appliances. They increase the security of certain intelligent devices through encry... More
Digital Culture is Young, Global and Massively Influential (Thrive)
The internet is far more than a global shopping cart. It is the dominant force shaping contemporary culture and accelerating international cultural exchange. Where is this digitiza... More
Voice: Tech Industry’s Next Big Platform Shift (Forbes India)
The smartphone as a platform revolutionized life in the past decade. The world became so accessible—it was freedom like never before. Texting as a default means to use the smartp... More
Mobile Game Spending Expected to Hit $100B in 2020 (THR)
The mobile gaming industry is expected to continue its growth into 2020, data and analytics provider App Annie predicts in its annual State of Mobile report.... More
What the Death of iTunes Says About Our Digital Habits (The Atlantic)
We started the 2010s obsessed with our electronic hygiene—and ended them a nation of digital hoarders. Eleven ideas about the decade that killed iTunes.... More
The Appetite for Live Streaming is Bigger Than Ever (The Verge)
It would be easy to assume that because competition is so stiff among live-streaming platforms — for talent, for eyeballs — that the market is zero-sum. But as it turns out, th... More
Quibi is Either a Clever Gimmick or the Future of Entertainment (Gozmodo)
The new streaming service, dreamed up by Jeffrey Katzenberg, founder and CEO of Dreamworks and one of the architects behind Disney’s golden age in the early ‘90s, is a mobile-f... More
Quibi Versus the World (The Verge)
Can Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman change everything about video on your phone?... More
Quibi Bets on a Future of Quick Clips, Tiny Screens (Wired)
TV, but on phones! You know—for kids? That’s it. That’s the pitch. The company making that pitch is called Quibi—a portmanteau of “quick bites.” Its product: less-than-... More
Grammys to Stream Red-Carpet Preshow Exclusively Via Twitter (Billboard)
For the first time in Grammy history, fans can tune in to the red carpet preshow on social media. The Grammys announced Wednesday (Jan. 8) that Grammys Live From the Red Carpet, fe... More
Apple’s Story is Shifting Thanks to the Massive Success of AirPods (CNBC)
Apple’s App Store growth appears to have slowed in 2019, a potentially negative sign for the company’s focus on growing its services business to offset weaker iPhone sales. But... More
