Africa ripe for global investors, developers

The African continent continues to attract the interest of global investors, developers and operators searching for growth. While there are short term concerns in some of Africa’s regions, the opportunities abound for infrastructure investment and development....

Multi-device world key for developers

In 2012, Google published the results of its Multi-Screen World Study, which showed 90% of all media interactions are screen-based. More importantly, the research showed that users are learning to use multiple devices – such as smartphones, tablets, PCs and...

Citizen developers change the face of IT

A new study reveals that 80% of leading enterprises are forming new partnerships with “citizen developers”, industry professionals operating outside the scope of enterprise IT.These citizen developers help to close the skills gap for application development to...

Tiny percentage of mobile apps will make it

Consumers are increasingly turning to recommendation engines, friends, social networking or advertising to discover mobile applications rather than sorting through the thousands of mobile apps available. As a consequence, Gartner predicts that through 2018, less than...

Ericsson looking for great apps

Developers, start-ups and anyone who has an idea for a great app have the opportunity to take home EUR 25 000 in this year’s Ericsson Application Awards. The theme for 2014 is Apps for Working Life, and there will be a global competition and several regional...