Spotify Stops Any Further App Submissions Amid Release of New Mobile SDKs


About three years ago, Spotify began its app platform which was a source of great inspiration for many. Among the long list of apps it gathered within its ambit are: Last.fm, musiXmatch, Rolling...

Tim Cook Suggests NCPPR to Stop Investing in Apple Amid ROI Issue


We all know that Tim Cook is a very soft-spoken and gentle person. In many ways he is the opposite of the late Steve Jobs. Whereas Jobs was all fire and fury, Tim Cook is down-to-earth and a very...

‘Candy Crush Saga’ Maker Takes Down Game: Denies Cloning


Earlier today we reported on accusations that King, the maker of mobile hit Candy Crush Saga, had commissioned a clone of indie mobile game Scamperghost. Developer Matthew Cox brought this...

Executive Creative Directors Evaluate Super Bowl Advertising


One week from today is the Super Bowl of advertising with an hour of football in-between. I wanted all of us to enjoy these TV spots to the fullest. To that end, I asked myself what makes a great...

Tesla Finishes One West-To-East Route


It may not go down in history like the driving of the “golden spike” that completed the transcontinental railroad in May of 1869. But Tesla nevertheless finished an important cross-country route of...

Toyota Highlander Super Bowl Ad Features Terry Crews and Muppets


Toyota and the Disney’s Muppets are joining hands along with Terry Crews who will be in the driving seat (literally!). An advertisement spot in the Super Bowl will show the former NFL player driving...

Steve Jobs Did Not Liberate Us. Tim Berners-Lee Did, By Freeing Ones and Zeros To Eat the World


30 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. More accurately, The Great Magician took it out of a bag and let it talk to us. The Macintosh, as I learned from first-hand experience in 1984,...

The End of the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules, at Least For Now


As most commentators, myself included, predicted last fall, a federal appellate court has vacated the FCC’s controversial 2010 “net neutrality” rules, holding that the agency wildly exceeded its...