This weekend sees us past the first month of 2012. Past CES2012, past CarrierIQ (but not really), and looking forward to many more exciting stories from an industry that never sleeps. That brings us to today’s topic, mobile payments and the startups that this niche, if you can still call it that, keeps springing up [...]

Good morning and good afternoon (as the country song goes,  it’s 5 pm somewhere…) This past week in tech has been interesting to a certain extent, and lots of the same ol’ in other respects. What’s new, brand new, is the pre-release of our revolutionary mobile payment platform,  Zimbrew.  Currently in private beta, we’re steadily [...]

With mobile application use still in its infancy (consider that we’re about 3 years into a trend that’s here to stay), it’s natural that the medium is still being questioned from an ROI perspective. But there are a couple of ways of looking at this: 1. What’s the ROI of phones in an office? Exactly. [...]

‘Ello and ‘Appy Monday! Are we using apps enough? According to a recent Flurry survey, app usage is now up to 94 minutes per day, 30 minutes longer than a year ago. This means two things: 1. Apps are getting stickier 2. Smartphones are getting better This increase in usage is understandable given the specialized [...]

Mornin’! 2012 is going to be special, I feel it in my pre-Apocalyptic bones (post-Apocalypse, there won’t be any bones anyway).  But the Mayans and their doomsday calendar aside, 2012 is going to be special because developernomics will truly take off. You probably won’t be able to turn sideways without bumping into a developer. Why [...]

I think that one of the most enthralling things about our world is discovering amazing connections between seemingly random things, people, places, or events. One interesting relationship that comes to mind is that between former Washington lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, and the late founder of the Mr. Sub franchise in Canada (I’ll be happy to explain [...]

Because we’ve only started the New Year (HNY, btw), we find it appropriate to be thankful not only for getting this far, but for some of the reasons our start-up has managed to endure the lows and why we can celebrate the highs. We’re not only in the business of developing mobile apps. As app [...]