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7 Ways Mobile Apps Are Driving Revenue for Businesses

7 Ways Mobile Apps Are Driving Revenue for Businesses | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
Smartphones have opened a whole new world of shopping and engagement opportunities.

Via Matmi
Matmi's curator insight, January 22, 2013 7:46 AM

It's not new knowledge that mobile apps can help drive revenue's for businesses .  The apps Matmi have produced have been showing this for some time. In addition to this a mobile app can increase customer engagement and brand loyalty too- why wouldn't a business want a mobile app? - HK 

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Future of Mobile Apps: 4 Predictions

Future of Mobile Apps: 4 Predictions | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
More than 5,500 software developers were asked to look into their crystal balls. Here's what they saw.


Facebook, Google, and anybody else involved in advertising have their best brains working on how to monetize mobile. The big question, of course, is how to get advertisers to spend their dollars there--it's something they've been hesitant to do en masse because consumer preferences can't be tracked and targeted in the same way they can on a desktop computer.


Someone will figure it out, and location awareness will definitely be part of the solution, although that's not without its caveats, as well, thanks to pesky little considerations like privacy.


In the meantime, developers are pressing on. But in which directions?


A recent survey of more than 5,500 developers--the largest of its kind ever--revealed how they're thinking about the future of mobile apps.


Here are their top 4 predictions 


Via Matmi
Matmi's curator insight, January 10, 2013 8:57 AM

I personally don't believe that a mobile start-up could take down the Facebook giants but maybe it could happen as mobile continues to grow with no sign of slowing down - HK