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The first 2.5bn smartphones brought us Instagram, Snapchat, Uber, Whatsapp, Kik, Venmo, Duolingo, and most importantly, drove the big web apps to build world class mobile apps and move their userbases from web...

Apple's march forward to world domination isn't slowing down. Let's check out their last quarter in terms of top level numbers ... Note: All numbers refer to the quarter ending Dec. 27, unless otherwise...

I really like this post from Benedict Evans over at A16Z. It's fascinating to think how quickly the mobile user landscape is changing ~ and that means you really need to get your head around where the numbers...

Long live Instagram! In the world of social media, the status of our popularity lives and dies by likes and comments. Such is the case for the photo-sharing app, Instagram. While it may sound simplistic and...

So I love this chart, it's basically a version of the 67 Human Universals that I write about in 'How to Build a Billion Dollar App'.   I still believe that we're very much in the age of...

Even as Facebook, predominantly, continues to be the world’s largest social network and by that argument is the most used app today, Snapchat is the fastest growing app in the world, up by 56 per cent this...

In the first half of this year, the level of venture-capital investment hit its highest quarterly mark since Q2 2001. Big M&A deals like WhatsApp, Oculus and Zillow have become prolific. And more and more...

It was great to be featured in FHM Magazine this month... Unfortunately the article is only on paper online ... so apologies for the...

This piece appeared on theBookSeller.com --- George Berkowski is a former rocket scientist turned app developer turned serial digital entrepreneur. In this Q&A, ahead of his keynote speech at...

According to venture firm Atomico, Stockholm has Europe's largest collection of billion dollar startups. The firm did a rather rigorous analysis of all the startups launched after 2003 with a valuation of at...