Executive Education

Since pretty much no-one in China uses BlackBerry phones, company announces a BB10 native app for chinese social networking giant Sina Weibo. Launched on August 28th, 2009, Sina Weibo has become the largest micro-blogging platform in China with more than 500 million registered users. It's hard to believe that Blackberry...

The Finnish technology company Nokia has teamed up with the world's second-largest sporting-goods maker Adidas to launch a sports and activity tracker app called "Adidas MiCoach" for Lumia devices. If you use your smartphone to help keep track of your workout routine? Well, Adidas MiCoach app is work a try!!!...

That’s Impressive!!! According to a blog post published by Line Corporation, it's official camera app, LINE camera, has hit more than 50 million downloads globally --- iPhone and Android figures combined.   Since launch 17 months ago, LINE camera app (the three-step photo tool : Capture, Edit and Save/Share) allows...

Chute, a photo collection startup has launched a new product called "Chute Rights" --- a digital rights management tool through which brands or publishers can contact content creators on social networks (Twitter, Facebook or Instagram) to secure permission to use their images. Chute uses hashtags to grab user-generated images on...

The world's best-selling smartphone maker Samsung has announced that it will be rolling out a smartphone with a curved screen starting next month. While the company declined to provide details on the phone’s specs --- new handsets will have plastic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels. South Korean electronics giant exhibited its...

The world’s biggest e-commerce company, Amazon.com has introduced its new high-definition Kindle tablet line-up called "Kindle Fire HDX", which comes in 7-inch and 8.9-inch display sizes --- waaaay cheaper than the equivalent iPad. Premium products at non-premium prices!!! We’ll get to see if they live up to their promise. Powered...

Uber, the San Francisco-based smartphone app that connects passengers with cars for hire, policy chief Corey Owens penned a post today that continues the company’s arguments against the transportation industry’s status quo. The on-demand, smartphone-friendly taxi service Uber was recently valued at an eye-popping $3.5 billion. Google invested $258 million...

In an attempt to build on its growing user base, UK Internet radio service Radioplayer has launched a completely redesigned and tablet-optimized version of its mobile app. Radioplayer is a joint venture between the BBC, Global Radio, Guardian Media Group, Absolute Radio and the RadioCentre. Available on iOS and Android...

The global file-sharing king, BitTorrent today launched P2P-based direct publishing platform "BitTorrent Bundle" for publishers as a private alpha. The idea is to make direct-to-fan distribution easier for artists to share their legitimate content. The San Francisco-based technology and media company’s new self-service platform has 8 launch partners: Los Angeles-based...

Tel Aviv-based SimilarGroup has launched an online competitive intelligence platform "SimilarWeb PRO" - designed  to get in-depth analytics on your competitors web traffic. SimilarGroup plans to unseat Amazon’s Alexa as the leader in web rankings. Founded in 2009 by CEO Or Offer and CTO Nir Cohen, the company is raising...