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Mobile App Discovery Not Getting Easier; ‘Zombies’ Gaining

February 2, 2015 / / 0 Comments

[Note: This post first appeared earlier today at Minnov8.com, where I am a contributor. Image credit: Telegraph UK.]

appsBasically, app discovery is a bitch, and the App Store is no longer the answer. That is the gist of a report on “2015 App Store Competition” published a couple days ago by an analytics firm in Berlin called Adjust. (PDF of the full report here.)

Minnesota developers are of course not strangers to this problem.  It’s especially painful for startups looking to get traction in today’s “mobile first” startup environment — and moreso if they don’t have Silicon Valley sized funding rounds.  I asked a couple of experienced mobile industry players here in Minnesota for their reaction to this news.  But first, more on the report.

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I Crashed the Volkswagen Press Conference at #CES2015

January 5, 2015 / / 0 Comments

vwpavilioinWell, actually, I didn’t crash it (I had a press pass), but I did stumble in late… 🙁 Would you believe, just as it was wrapping up? Damn long cab rides! But there were still lots of people milling about on stage, and both the vehicles were still there. So, I grabbed some photos, and the press kit on my way out.

The red car is the Golf R Touch, which was attracting the most attention, and the white car is an e-Golf, their electric car, which looked lonely in comparison. (But who needs that now with cheap gas, right?!) They showed a “Connected Golf” version of that car, which is a set of features that seems to be their major focus at CES.

As a big VW guy myself — I’ve owned or leased six or seven of them in my lifetime, and I’ve been driving them exclusively for 10 years now — I just had to find out what was new.

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Minnesota Mobile Dev Firm DoApp Sells Real-Estate Tech to California’s CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX)

November 25, 2014 / / 0 Comments

[Note: This post first appeared earlier today at Minnov8.com, where I am a contributor.]

doapp-coreMinnesota mobile technology firm DoApp Inc. announced today it has sold its mobile real estate platform to publicly traded CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a global property information, analytics, and data-enabled services provider based in Irvine, California. Seven DoApp employees, 40% of its workforce (which is based in both Rochester MN and the Twin Cities area), are now CoreLogic employees — including Dave Borrillo, previously DoApp’s COO, now a VP of mobile technology at CoreLogic. None of the employees has to relocate. Other terms of the deal were not announced.

The DoApp-developed mobile real-estate platform has been the technology foundation for the CoreLogic “GoMLS” app. GoMLS gives real estate agents and consumers access to in-depth listing and property data using their mobile devices. DoApp said the GoMLS app has been downloaded by homebuyers and sellers over 400,000 times to date.

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‘MobCon’ Attracts Mobile Minds to Minneapolis

November 17, 2014 / / 1 Comment

mobconsmallOne of our largest locally sponsored tech events here in Minneapolis is the MobCon Conference, dubbed “Where Mobile Minds Connect.” The third annual version was held November 13th & 14th, 2014, at the Hyatt in downtown Minneapolis. The event is put on by MentorMate, a large mobile development firm that was recently acquired by Taylor Corp. Sponsors for this year’s MobCon included many local firms, among them such bigcos as Target Corp and USBank.

The highlights for me were three speakers:

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