Why Mobile Apps are Crucial for a Successful Business

• Understand how apps can increase not only sales but also deliver process improvement, automation and enhance employee and customer engagement. Today businesses need to keep up-to-date with the latest developments hitting the technology industry in order to continue to be competitive and successful. Developments in mobile are taking place faster than ever and it …

Wine Poured For Byte Night

Pocket App and serial entrepreneur, Barney Quinn, hosted a fun-packed wine tasting night and raised over £6,000 for charity. 18th July 2016, Reading – Last Thursday, over 80 business people got together for an evening of wine tasting at Forbury’s Restaurant in Reading in support of the Thames Valley Byte Night for Action for Children. …

Pocket App appoints Hugh Griffiths as Interim Chief Executive Officer

Pocket App, the UK’s largest independent app developer, is delighted to announce that Hugh Griffiths, a former Director of Mobile Services at Microsoft, has been appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer. Industry figurehead, Griffiths, will be a significant addition to the Pocket App board and will bring a host of experience through his extensive background …

Wimbledon – More than just strawberries and cream

The summer of sporting fun has begun in earnest. Not only is the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship now well underway, with our boys managing to safely negotiate the tournaments opening stanza without too much incident, but the Rio Olympic Games are now beginning to creep up on the horizon, and what a festival of …

Is Apple Playing Catch Up with Android?

Apple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last week in San Francisco, where Tim Cook and his team announced a wide array of new features and functionality across Apple platforms, including a major update to iOS 10, the renaming of mac OS X to macOS (the new version will be named macOS Sierra) and …

Kicking off the Euro’s 2016 – hedge your bets with our top five apps

The UEFA European Championship is almost upon us; one of the most popular events in the football world, second in scale only to the World Cup. Kick off on the 10th June will see football fans from 24 countries pitching in to stand behind their home nation, so brace yourself for barbecues with the neighbours, …

The top five apps to make Glasto even better!

I have been lucky enough to go to Glastonbury Festival for the last three years and managed to get a ticket again for this year. Previous preparation for the festival has often included buying a £10 ‘disposable’ phone, as I was too scared to take my iPhone with me; a tactic that many festival-goers employ. …

What it takes to deliver a successful crowdfund

There’s a lot of controversy right now around crowdfunding and I think it is fair to say that the jury is still out whether crowdfunds deliver on their promise. That said for many entrepreneurs and start-ups crowdfunding campaigns have become the go-to funding strategy to get their businesses off the ground or to the next …

Pocket App CEO Paul Swaddle talks about How smartphone developers can make their devices even better.

The new Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge Smartphones finally went on general sale last week, after being sent out a few days earlier to the lucky few customers who pre-ordered including myself. The device was officially unveiled at a flashy event during the Mobile World Congress trade show back in February and early reviews …

Pocket App Crowdfunding Campaign – Investor Benefits

By now you’re no doubt aware that the Pocket App crowdfunding campaign is close to 65% funded with £478,453 of the £750,000 sought investment already sourced and 156 investors already on board! For those of you still to invest, you should bear in mind the free development resource afforded to all investors! But be quick, …