Con este informe, además de realizar un análisis de las mejores aplicaciones móviles especializadas en salud y publicadas en español, se incorporan los siguientes elementos claves: la simbiosis y las sinergias establecidas entre expertos del mundo de
las TIC y profesionales reconocidos del mundo de la medicina.
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Native apps command about 86 percent of U.S. consumers’ mobile time, or about six times more than the mobile web does, according to a mobile analytics report by Flurry.
Flurry said that the time spent by the average U.S. consumer on a mobile device has risen to 2 hours and 42 minutes per day, compared to 2 hours and 38 minutes a year ago. Apps command about 86 percent of that time, or 2 hours and 19 minutes per day, compared to just 22 minutes for the mobile web.
The designers of the forthcoming Moto 360 hope they’ve passed a fashion test. In contrast to the often bulky and boxy smart watches released to date (see “Smart Watches Need a Makeover, and a Shrink Ray”), their device is sleek and perfectly round, evoking the style of a classic analog wristwatch.
Dormi is an Android app that enables anyone to turn an old smartphone into baby monitor, delivering notifications straight to parents’ working mobiles.
The he parking “pay by phone” market is heating up in the US, with app developers closing deals with municipalities and counties all over the country for implementation of their parking solution. So far, based on market share, the leader is Israel’s Pango – and as a sign of investors’ faith in the company, and in the business model, Pango several weeks ago locked up an additional round of financing, raising an additional $6.5 million that will enable it to expand its services to additional cities in the US and elsewhere.
Last year, voice technology giant Nuance quietly acquired VirtuOz, a developer of virtual assistants for online sales, marketing and support — a “Siri for the enterprise” that counted with the likes of PayPal and AT&T as customers. Now, Alexandre Lebrun, the founder and CEO of VirtuOz, has taken a dive back into the startup world to launch Wit.ai, a platform and API that will let a developer incorporate speech recognition and a natural language interface into any app or piece of hardware.
Most businesses use more than one piece of software. If they want to send data from one application to another, they could take time to write custom code, or they could use services designed for that purpose.
The thing is, multiple application-connecting services exist. MuleSoft, one of the more popular ones, wants to fend off competitors and keep adding customers. Today the company announced a new $50 million in funding, which should help it keep growing despite the competition from new and existing competition.
Nesta, with European partners, is currently running the Apps for Europe programme to stimulate the scale of app businesses in Europe built on open data. Over the last year the programme has run a competition seeking innovative apps that make use of open data and have a viable business plan.
Alongside our partners, we're now pleased to announce the 10 finalists of the Apps for Europe competition. Five of the finalists are winners of a series of local Business Lounges that have been held throughout Europe; the other five finalists were selected from an online competition, which was judged by open data and business experts.
Duolingo, now backed by over $38M from NEA, KPCB and Union Square Ventures, leads language learning startups and public market comparable Rosetta Stone in the App Store charts.
Within Ed Tech, there are a number of competing venture-backed upstarts in the language learning market that offer unique mobile offerings. So as competition heats up in the mobile language learning market, we wanted to analyze how venture-backed apps were faring on the financing front and in the App Store rankings.
Cloud storage company Box is taking seriously its commitment to market its technology to health care professionals.
The Silicon Valley-based company recently brought on its health care advisor, Missy Krasner, full time. Krasner, a former health-focused executive in residence at Morgenthaler Ventures (recently renamed the Canvas Venture Fund) and a member of the Google Health team, has taken the lead on Box’s health care vertical offering.
