AI Will Reshape Things In 2026
Thursday, December 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
Aniket Shaligram, VP of Technology at Talentica Software, predicts that the coming year will mark a shift from AI as a productivity aid to AI as an active participant in product teams. Organizations will move beyond simple AI assistants toward clearly defined AI “team members” that own specific responsibilities, are measured against outcomes, and collaborate...
App monetization strategies to try
Thursday, October 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
App monetization strategies to try focus on generating revenue from mobile applications. With millions of apps available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, developers face intense competition and must choose effective revenue models. Each strategy leverages user behavior and app engagement differently to produce income, making it essential to evaluate potenti...
Why SLOs are a key tool
Monday, August 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
Modern digital products now operate at scales that would have seemed impossible just a decade ago. YouTube processes over 500 hours of video every minute, Amazon processes around 12 million orders each day, and large cloud platforms and advertising systems serve billions of real-time requests.
At this level, a failure is a business risk, a user experience problem, an...
Cybersecurity in 2025
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 by Richard Harris
Timothy Hollebeek shares his insights on the key cybersecurity trends shaping 2025, focusing on the evolving landscape of digital trust and identity. As quantum computing and AI continue to advance, they bring both groundbreaking innovations and new cybersecurity risks. The introduction of Google’s Willow chip signals a new era of quantum technology, accelerating ...
Mobile operators in France unite to protect digital identities
Monday, December 16, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
As part of the global GSMA Open Gateway initiative, France's four leading mobile operators – Bouygues Telecom, Free, Orange and SFR – announced they will join forces to provide services designed to help app developers and enterprises tackle online fraud and protect the digital identities of mobile customers.
Mobile operators in France unite to protect digit...
User interfaces and handling risky actions
Monday, November 4, 2024 by Richard Harris
In the digital realm, where user interfaces serve as the bridge between humans and technology, the potential for error is ever-present. This is aptly summarized by Murphy's Law: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." The challenge for designers and developers is to anticipate these potential pitfalls and design interfaces that prevent errors or minimi...
Free trials have high customer conversion rate
Thursday, September 12, 2024 by Richard Harris
New data shows 30-day free trials had the highest customer acquisition (32%) and conversion rate (56%) and are shown to be 28 times more effective than free products. However, despite its effectiveness, nearly 3 in 4 ecommerce sellers didn't use the approach in 2023.
Free trials have high customer conversion rate
These findings come from the ‘Optima...
Red Hat Developer Hub is available now
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 by Richard Harris
Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open-source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Developer Hub, an enterprise-grade internal developer platform (IDP) based on Backstage, an open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. Featuring a self-service portal, standardized software templates, dynamic plug-in management, enterprise role-ba...
Digital ad spend to soar over the next few years
Monday, June 26, 2023 by Austin Harris
Get ready to transform your digital marketing strategy! linkdaddyseo.com has conducted an in-depth study that unveils invaluable insights and projections for the global digital marketing landscape in 2023.
The market size is determined by a survey conducted by linkdaddyseo.com and employing a combined top-down and bottom-up approach. The forecasting process incorpora...
Explosion of AI based tools is coming
Thursday, January 26, 2023 by Richard Harris
Rachel Obstler, Micha Hershman, and Mona Popli from Heap explain why we should expect to see an explosion of AI tools in 2023, how companies can focus on user behavior by investing in tools that show what visitors do, and why we will witness a revolt against using HiPPO for driving decisions, plus a lot more of their 2023 predictions below.
Teams use self-service ana...
NFTs are irrelevant. Say what!
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 by Richard Harris
NFT's, NFT's, NFT's! The buzzword you can't escape these days. But what are they and WHY? According to Hussein Hallak, the Co-Founder of Momentable, the new NFT e-commerce platform that is democratizing access to and reimagining the way we view art and culture, "NFT's are irrele...
Key drivers of the metaverse market
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 by Richard Harris
Emmanuelle Rivet, Vice Chair, and US TMT & Global Technology Leader, at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), has over 26 years of experience advising public and private tech companies on complex transactions from M&A and equity or debt offerings to system implementation and operations transformation for scale and compliance. Emmanuelle is focused on helping diverse tea...
UI and UX testing report from Applitools
Friday, August 5, 2022 by Richard Harris
Applitools announced the 2022 State of UI/UX Testing Report. Testers, developers, QA managers, and UI/UX designers from nearly 1,000 companies were surveyed.
As the first-ever industry report on the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) testing, the data shows that most organizations' current testing techniques are unable to meet the quality engineering de...
Developers and digital transformation speed
Monday, November 23, 2020 by Richard Harris
We are living in challenging and unexpected times. COVID-19 transformed our professional and personal lives in a matter of days. There is a new standard for where we work, where we can go and how we interact with just about everyone. The rapid shift needed to cope with our new normal has fueled a departure from established initiatives, dramatically increasing the rate a...
API Manager 3 from WSO2 released
Monday, November 18, 2019 by Richard Harris
APIs are the essential building blocks of digital businesses—assembling data, events and services from within the organization, throughout ecosystems, and across devices. This is driving new demands for organizations to create and monetize APIs and API products; maximize adoption and reuse across internal and external portals and API marketplaces; and ensure API s...
Content management systems are getting old
Friday, February 15, 2019 by Richard Harris
As the role and value of content increase, many companies are finding that their existing content management systems just aren’t cutting it. That’s not surprising as legacy CMSes were built for page-based desktop publishing and are simply too rigid to be adapted for today’s dynamic digital demands. Indeed, maximizing the value of content depends on mov...
Windows App Store Announces Latest App Download and Monetization Trends
Saturday, December 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Windows Development Team has released its latest report in a recurring series that provides details about recent Windows App Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Data from the Windows Store is included with Windows Phone Store, to provide information about apps regardless of the devices targeted.This latest update includes several new analyses includin...
Amazon Working on Mobile Associates API for iOS App Developers: Looking for Beta Testers
Thursday, June 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon is exploring integration of the Mobile Associates API into iOS apps. They are in the planning stages of launching a beta program and are encouraging iOS developers to apply now to participate in the upcoming program. Participants will be selected based on their use case and willingness to provide feedback. As a beta tester, developers will receive early acce...
Apigee Announces Monetization Services for APIs and Other Digital Assets
Monday, July 22, 2013 by Richard Harris
Apigee has launched a monetization Services program to provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution for companies seeking to monetize their APIs and other digital assets.
The new Apigee Monetization Services are designed to help companies enhance monetization opportunities and manage developer/partner programs allowing companies to bill and charge for API and other digi...
