Apple Pay launches: Why mobile payment is about take off October 21, 2014 Apple Pay, the tech giant's mobile payment service, has launched in the US offering users the ability to pay for items using just their mobile phone. It kicks of the most high-profile launch in the nascent mobile payment space, which could finally push it into the mainstream. A mobile wallet is perhaps the best way [...]
Chart-toppers Apple such a hit October 20, 2014 APPLE beat both analyst and company expectations as “off the charts” iPhone demand lead to bumper profits and revenues. Chief executive Tim Cook also said that 2014 was “one for the record books” after last nights release of earnings results for the three months to October. The company posted quarterly net profit of $8.5bn – an increase [...]
Apple share price rises by 2pc as third-quarter earnings beat expectations October 20, 2014 Shares in Apple rose by two per cent in after-hours trading on Monday, as investors were encouraged by the consumer electronics giant's higher-than-expected earnings for the third quarter. For the three months to 30 September, earnings were $8.47bn (£5.24bn). This beat analysts' expectations and represented a 13 per cent increase compared to the same [...]
Emma Kane: Three things you didn’t know about the CEO and founder of Redleaf Polhill October 20, 2014 1 In the 1980s, Emma was a professional tenor saxophonist, having studied jazz and popular music. Today she gets her musical kicks through being chairman of the Barbican Centre Trust, a role to which she was appointed in September. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Board Director of Grange [...]
EARN Media’s Jamal Benmiloud on how content marketing can help build brand love October 19, 2014 Marketers have long distinguished between paid-for, owned and earned media. With the explosive growth of content marketing (brands producing their own videos and shows, rather than paying for conventional ad slots), the latter two have attracted ever-greater portions of ad budgets recently, partly with the aim of achieving that Holy Grail of digital marketing [...]
Apple’s chief designer Jony Ive discusses design process in rare video October 19, 2014 Apple's Jony Ive has given some rare insight into the Apple design process. In an interview at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, which is available on YouTube, Apple's design guru talks about the excitement he feels for the design process. Ive talked about the dangers of allowing a feature to taker precedent over a better [...]
The new iPlod: How Apple’s iPad Air 2 and Mini 3 disprove Darwin’s theory with pure brand power October 17, 2014 If Darwin really did say it’s not the strongest or most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change, then the world of mobile tech had better watch out. The lumbering dinosaur that was once Nokia wonderfully proves the point: one moment all conquering and powerful, the next gobbled-up by Microsoft [...]
Kingston’s Bentall Centre up for grabs with £200m-plus price tag October 16, 2014 Bentall shopping centre in Kingston upon Thames has been put up for sale after one of its owners appointed advisers to sell its 50 per cent stake, with a price-tag of around £200m. It is one of the busiest malls in Greater London, with 700,000 square feet of space and 14m visitors a year from [...]
Apple releases updated iPad and iPad mini October 16, 2014 Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the new iPad Air 2, which was unveiled yesterday, along with an iPad mini 3. The updated, slimmer iPad Air is 6.1 millimeters thick and weighs less than one pound. It is priced at $499 to $829. Both new tablets feature a fingerprint sensor.
Apple iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 launch: New releases show Tim Cook’s strategy October 16, 2014 Tim Cook called it a speed bump: Apple's global quarterly iPad sales were down to 13.28 million in the last quarter, the lowest they'd been since Q2 2012. Read about the iPad launch here. So rather than panic, Apple seems to have decided it just needs to refine its product. As Ernest Doku, telecoms expert at [...]