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Can you turn the world into a location-based game, make it entertaining, make it engaging and make money from it? That’s exactly what The Tap Lab is doing with their first release, Tap City. How are they doing it? How are they currently generating revenue? What does their revenue model look like in the future? [...]

How does a new company launch their first mobile product and have it downloaded over 1,000,000 times? Not only that, but to also launch on every major mobile platform, both major desktops and in 13 languages in a highly competitive market with a team of fewer than 25. I asked Jessica Erickson, PR Director of [...]

Is there enough room for the incredible number of companies playing in the location and check-in space? How do companies differentiate enough across features to carve out a niche? How important is the user interface experience in reaching and retaining users? In search of the answers to these questions and more I found Krating Poonpol, [...]

The promise of mobile is all the information we could possibly need or want accessible in context to where we are and what we are doing. No other industry is as rich an opportunity than the food industry – in particular, food shopping and how to eat a healthy, balanced diet. How do you know [...]

Is the biggest misconception that search is a mature industry that has already been won by the big guys at Google and Bing? Have developers and innovators handed over the keys to these companies before even trying anything new? I suppose if you think of the way we currently use the Internet and mobile to [...]

Mobile photo sharing applications have emerged and has now become a very competitive and highly contested space. So what does it take to rise above the competition when, seemingly, there is a new entrant every week? I originally invited Vic Singh, founder of Tracks – a social photo application, on to UNTETHER.tv to discuss his [...]

Social networking apps are now an industry within the mobile world and it seems that there is a new entrant popping up every month pushing the boundaries of human to human interaction via smartphones. So I went hunting for an original – one of the first of these companies to market and found myRete, makers [...]

How do you build an app that allows customers to order pizza from a smartphone? Seems simple doesn’t it? Crust, sauce, cheese, pepperoni, box it and deliver. Throw that functionality on an iPhone. Done. If only it were that simple. In this episode, Melody Adhami, COO and co-founder (and Queen of Apps) of Plastic Mobile, [...]

If you’ve ever lost your phone you know the pain that TekTrak solves. It isn’t so much that the phone is gone it’s the fact that the phone has become your go to camera and you haven’t backed up in a while. It’s also that the phone has access to your personal life – and, [...]