Buying Music Rights May Be Facebook’s Ticket to Beat YouTube
As app developers know, Mark Zuckerberg will not rest until Facebook is a one-stop online media powerhouse. So how is Facebook going to beat YouTube, one of its biggest rivals for our attention spans (not to mention advertising dollars)? In addition to its new video tab Watch, the platform is trying to broker a deal […]
Spotify Picked Up Ten Million Subscribers Since March
Chances are, most app developers do not need to be sold on Spotify. With its massive catalog, wonderfully curated playlists, and high quality audio, the reigning champ of streaming music services has already captured a healthy share of the market. The Napster days of sketchy pirating may not be totally over, but services like Spotify […]
Lyft Will Develop Its Own Autonomous Vehicle Technology
Less than a year ago, most San Francisco iPad app developers saw Lyft as a somewhat friendlier Uber clone with no hope of crawling out of its competitor’s formidable shadow. But as Uber has spent the past several months weathering controversy after controversy, Lyft has found its opportunity to challenge the Goliath of the ride-hailing […]
Life in the Slow Lane: Tech Stands Up for Net Neutrality
We’re living in an era of wall-to-wall news, a lot of it quite alarming. It’s easy to get overwhelmed — and to despair. But in this seemingly endless pile-up of crises, it is important for Los Angeles FinTech app developers to remember that net neutrality is in peril. We cannot lose sight of this fight. […]
Amazon Moves to Conquer Groceries with Whole Foods Purchase
The big business news rolling into the weekend was Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods, a move that seemed to take the retail world by surprise. Industry analyst Charlie O’Shea calls the $13.4 billion deal “a transformative transaction, not just for food retail, but for retail in general.” Soon, Amazon will have 460 Whole Foods stores […]
Waymo-Lyft’s Driverless Car Partnership Is a Threat to Uber
Internet of things app developers are probably familiar with the old saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” That bit of wisdom appears to be behind the new partnership between Waymo and Lyft, two rivals to ride-hailing giant Uber. Lyft has lagged behind Uber in the ride-hailing market, consistently stuck in second place […]
Siri Comes Home in the Form of a New Voice-Activated Speaker
It’s a testament to Apple’s supremacy in the marketplace and culture that rumors about new products tend to drum up more excitement than most other companies’ big launches. Internet of things app developers and Apple devotees were thrilled this week to hear that the company’s answer to Amazon Echo and Google Home may be right […]
Dogtown Meets with FCC to Talk Spectrum and More at AppCon
Dogtown Media CEO Marc Fischer had an action-packed Wednesday of meetings and policy talk at AppCon ’17, starting in the morning with a chat with the office of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. The topic was reforming healthcare so that mHealth solutions can provide patients with better care at a lower […]
Dogtown Goes to D.C. for AppCon ’17, Pushes Education Reform
It is Dogtown Media’s belief that laws that are good for tech are good for us all, which is why we’re so excited to be in the nation’s capital for AppCon ’17. Presented by ACT – The App Association and Mobile Technology Association of Michigan, the conference gathers tech execs and app developers from all […]
Trump’s New Executive Order Aims to Re-examine H-1B Program
President Trump signed his “Buy American, Hire American” executive order on Tuesday, which will put the H-1B visa system under review. The order is designed to ensure that tech jobs that could be going to Americans are not being taken by cheaper foreign labor and to tighten restrictions on foreign contractors bidding on government projects, […]