How Mobile Phones are Changing the Internet Once there were big computers that take forever to start up and load a single program. Then came smaller computers and faster loading times. Mobile phones became available for public use in 1983, with bulky handheld models from Motorola like the DynaTAC 800X. Nokia came and gave some…
From Online Ads to Mobile Campaigns Once, computers were used only for encoding documents and computing columns and columns of numbers. Computers are utilitarian job machines that need no frills. Designs should be simple so as not to distract the users from their work. That was before Steve Jobs, according to Mary Meeker, hardware and…
Commerce and the Internet — Two Spaces Slowly Becoming an Equal Ground for Everyone The international market is catching up to local U.S. companies. Although Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook still have the largest market values and annual revenues respectively, Chinese businesses like Baidu, Tencent, Netease and Alibaba.com are soon catching up. Baidu is at number…
Mary Meeker is a visionary who defined how mobile technology will take over traditional mediums of communications and business. She has begun as a college student who pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. After graduating in 1981, Meeker continued her studies in the Cornell University in Ithaca,…