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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution (Part 5)
SM: How does the car industry see this evolution happening? CR: Well, today there’re a couple approaches. One is that the mobile phone application would work similar to the way that you’re controlling the address book and things like that on your phone. The app’s residing there, you’re just using the controls and speakers in
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution (Part 4)
SM: What percentage of your clients are mobile clients? CR: I would say the mobile phone platforms drive about 60% of our revenue base, 65%. SM: What about media? CR: Media is about 15%. One thing about our company is we only deal with larger media companies. So, it’s a model we’ve perfected over the
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO of Safely (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Who else plays in that space? Whom do you compete with? And are the applications only phone locating applications, or are there other applications you’re seeing emerge in that space? Tasso Roumeliotis: There are other ones. To answer your first question, the biggest competitor, by far, is a company called TCS. They’re the
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO of Safely (Part 2)
SM: Which app on the smart phone that you think is the milestone event that makes location-based services viable. TR: I would say that if you actually look at the revenue-generating, location-based services, a lot of the revenue that’s being generated, those applications are still near the top or at the top, even before smart
Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Paul Bragiel, Managing Partner, i/o Ventures, San Francisco, California (Part 1)
By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi I am talking to Paul Bragiel, managing partner of i/o Ventures, which is a three-month accelerator program for technology entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The partners of i/o Ventures come from companies like MySpace and BitTorrent, and their mentors are from Yelp, Digg, Mint, Mochi Media, and OpenDNS.
Deal Radar 2008: Yelp
Yelp is a popular site where users review trendy and not-so-trendy local businesses in their city. Yelp users can write reviews, read reviews, discuss topics and share their opinions and experiences with others on an endless list of topics such as restaurants, stores, hairstylists and real estate brokers. Started in 2004 in San Francisco, the
