Instagram’s Chronological Feed is Back
From tweaking the way users interact with content, to allowing users to upload videos of up to 60 seconds on their Stories (up from the previous 15 seconds), Instagram appears to be in all-out adjustment mode. For instance, just last month Instagram announced that it’s working on a new feed option where users can see […]
Facebook and Instagram Now Let You See How Many Minutes You Use Them
Facebook and Instagram are giving users an idea of how much time they’re spending on the platform. The data shown details how many minutes users spend per day on the apps and gives a weekly average as well. But, while this is a noble quest to help us become more aware of how we spend […]
Everything You Need to Know from Facebook’s F8 Conference
A few days ago, Facebook held their annual developer conference, dubbed “F8” for Facebook’s 8-hour hackathons. This conference was highly-anticipated (for more than one reason, but mostly due to Facebook’s recent data scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, a data research firm). The event was held in San Jose, right outside of San Francisco. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced […]
Instagram Stories Beats Snapchat at Its Own Game
So many apps have ripped off Snapchat’s popular Stories feature that it’s become something of a joke among mobile app developers. Even Snapchat itself is in on it, as the company proved with its April Fool’s Day-exclusive Instagram filter. But the laughter may be catching in Snap’s throat. The company’s most direct competitor Instagram Stories […]
Instagram Introduces In-App Shopping for Brands
If Twitter is the poster child of angry users and poor monetization attempts, Instagram is the opposite — a massive mobile app startup that’s somehow perfectly balanced monetization and user experience. That balance in on display currently as the company just launched “shoppable tags,” which allow select brands to display purchase information embedded within tags […]
How to Pitch Your Startup and Get Investment Capital
In a recent episode of This American Life, first-time startup founder Alex Blumberg found himself in a situation most iPhone app developers would kill for: meeting one-on-one with investor Chris Sacca (of Twitter, Instagram, etc.) to pitch his app idea. Unfortunately, the meeting didn’t go as planned — to put it lightly, Blumberg crashed and […]
4 Lessons Startups Can Learn from Small Businesses
According to CB Insights, only 1.28% of startups become unicorns. Does that make the other 98.72% failures? Hardly. In startup culture — and even more so in venture capital culture — there’s a tendency to overlook the value of thinking small. While it’s true that a business model that can’t scale to a billion dollar business […]
Instagram May Add Account Switching Feature to iOS App
60-second mobile ads aren’t the only change rocking the Instagram platform this month, as the company began rolling out experimental support for “account switching” — although the move may be less a calculated move to boost engagement than an effort to please the large part of their userbase that uses multiple accounts in spite of […]
Social Commerce in Mobile Apps is the Next Big Thing
For startups and mobile app developers, Christmas represents more than just a break to spend time with family; it represents big opportunities for business growth, with consumers buying more goods and services than any other time of year. Recent years have seen steady growth in e-commerce in general, but this season London mobile app developers are […]
Billion-Dollar Mobile Tech Companies Taking the Lead
Digi-Capital analyst Tim Merel recently released a 500-plus-page report on the state of mobile Internet investment, and the results may surprise even the savviest tech industry observers. According to Merel, there are more than 20 billion-dollar mobile Internet companies, with several of them posting mind-boggling growth rates. “Mobile Internet first mover advantage is more extreme […]