For Investors, Mobile Startup Boom Gives Way to Caution
Some venture capitalists are avoiding consumer apps and putting their money behind the “picks and shovels” of mobile computing.
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An Anti-iPad for India
Suneet Singh Tuli, the man behind the ultracheap Aakash 2 tablet, says the West doesn’t understand mobile business in the developing world.
Here’s Where They Make China’s Cheap Android Smartphones
Apple and Samsung, beware. Practically anyone can make a smartphone these days.
Smartphones Are Eating the World
The spread of mobile computers, in numbers.
A Shrinking Garmin Navigates the Smartphone Storm
Smartphones are digital “Swiss Army knives” that do just about everything. Can the world’s leading GPS company survive?
How Facebook Slew the Mobile Monster
The fortunes of the world’s largest social network depend on how much it can earn from mobile advertisements.
Google Wants to Install a Computer on Your Face
The search company is developing a computer in a pair of glasses. But why would anyone wear them?
Mobile Computing Is Just Getting Started
Smartphones, tablets, and wireless data plans are already a trillion-dollar business. It’s just the beginning.
A Plan to Give Mobile Data Bills a Makeover
What if mobile subscribers could click a button and top off their data plan, or even buy mobile Internet access to a single app?
50 Disruptive Companies 2013
Our fourth annual list of companies around the world whose innovations will reshape markets.
