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In this segment, Jeff Brenner, CEO of Pressly, answers the question why are some of the largest brands in the world coming to his company, how they convince companies to abandon their previous efforts in building native applications to use their platform, how they landed the Toronto Star as their first marquee client, why using Flipboard is not a good brand decision and why build a web experience over a native app.

In this first segment of our episode with Pressly CEO Jeff Brenner, we focus on his background, where the opportunity is in the publishing space, attacking the engineering hurdles of building a disruptive product and what the challenges have been transitioning from a consulting company into a product company.

In this episode we get a quick run through of the things whurley and his team at Chaotic Moon have been up to including Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily and Sesame Street’s classic Grover tale, The monster at the end of this book. Why has this small company been able to build some of the most innovative and advanced mobile applications out there and what is with the Board of Awesomeness?

Steve Schwinke, Director of Advanced Technology at OnStar opens up about the impact mobile is and will be having on the car experience and what this means for the industry.

What happens when the television is no longer the focal point in your living room? Sure, it is on, glowing with movement but, more and more people are looking down at these smaller mobile screens with television in the background as noise. Scott Rosenberg’s company, Umami, is tackling this engagement challenge head on and here’s how they are changing the television industry as we know it.

Data collection has never been more in the forefront than now with the incredible adoption of smartphones and other mobile devices. There isn’t a store, kiosk, bank, gym, restaurant or business that doesn’t collect some form of data but we often don’t think twice about how it gets collected, stored and analyzed. That’s what Sze [...]

There is a skirmish underway and it is playing out in living rooms around the world. What happens when you take the dumbest of screens that have been the focal point in most living rooms for decades and add the hyper personalized smartphone and mash them together? Mayhem…and massive opportunity. What does the future hold [...]

How do you use mobile to bring customers into your business? This is the single most important question retailers should be asking themselves as the world moves from the stationary screen to the one in their customers pocket. It is also the single focus of Candice Faktor and her Toronto startup ShopCatch. Candice talks passionately [...]

Mobile is so pervasive and disruptive – we know that. What we are seeing now is an explosion of ideas that are leading to innovations where content, devices and connectivity colide and recreate new industries. We are in the midst of rapid change and nothing is really safe. Enter Marmalade and CTO Tim Closs. Marmalade [...]

Can you create serendipity from your social network based on your location? Can you use all these great tools like LinkedIn, Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter on the road and to create new – but related – contacts? Is there a value in connecting people who happen to be in one location over a smartphone? Sonar [...]

If ever there was an idea that marketers, consumers and businesses should like it is Forecast. A small Austin-based mobile startup with a ton of experience and a clarity of thinking that is mature beyond their months in business. Forecast is a play on the check-in: Instead of telling people where you are or have [...]

Quick, what industry is currently being disrupted at a rate not seen since worldwide overnight shipping was invented? Quick, what industry is at the crossroads of “way too much change” and “way too many options” thanks to mobile? Retail. To say mobile will be disruptive to the retail industry is an understatement. We are already [...]