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 …
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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 …
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, …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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, …
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Pocket App is the UK’s largest independent app developer designing, developing and distributing award-winning mobile apps. Founded in 2011, Pocket App’s senior executives collectively have over 30 years’ experience in the mobile industry having worked in partnership to deliver projects for large telcos, as well as a vast array of leading brands and marketing agencies. …
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Paul Swaddle joins some of the world’s most experienced and successful entrepreneurs in role to support high growth London businesses Pocket App is proud to announce that CEO Paul Swaddle has been named one of the mentors for the Mayor’s International Business Programme, a new initiative launched to help the capital’s high growth firms break …
Over the weekend there was a story in The Sunday Times about Mark Mason, who founded UK start-up and mobile app developer, Mubaloo, six years ago and has just sold the business to IPG Mediabrands, part of Interpublic, one of the world’s top four marketing agencies. In the article, Mediabrands declined to reveal what it …
