The company's focus on putting mobile first, with new apps and features, is paying off.
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There is a raging debate about the importance of mobile first and mobile-only software.
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Mobile first also signifies a new way to think about building capabilities or platforms.
And most importantly, new apps will be designed with mobile first in mind.
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It's certainly mobile first -- what you need for fitness to really work is to have your device with you.
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With many of our new projects, we are now thinking mobile first.
It's all a part of the Social Network's plan to build "mobile empathy" among all of its employees, and getting everyone thinking mobile first.
This is especially true if you are mobile first, as the approval processes for native apps are trickier than the continuous deployment of the desktop world.
In the future, Facebook should launch new services like Graph Search on mobile first and desktop second, says Ty Amell, CEO of StackMob, a cloud-based mobile platform for developers.
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For companies that have been producing products for years, such as Intuit, the company must re-imagine these products as if they were built as a mobile first and mobile-only experience.
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Launching on mobile first as opposed to a website (or both) is an increasing choice of new tech start-up entrepreneurs as mobile devices have become more advanced and more people adopt them.
My entrepreneurial and corporate venturing background includes having responsibility for one of the first smartphone development programs, founding one of the first mobile marketing companies, co-founding the Mobile Marketing Association, and starting Africa's first mobile commerce firm.
We think that this approach will provide ample opportunity for mobile-first companies that think about the mobile user from the ground-up and focus on their needs without any pre-conceived notions.
Mojiva, a mobile-first global advertising display company offering both a mobile ad network (Mojiva), and a mobile ad-serving platform (Mocean Mobile), is a company that has not one or two, but seven female executives at the helm.
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Finally, India is a true mobile-first country: there are 9 times as many mobile users as there are Internet users.
Right now, mobile-first enterprise companies are vastly underfunded, while those consumer mobile start ups are vastly over-funded.
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Companies contemplating mobile should first consider what their business objective are and the reasons for wanting to go mobile.
The company is a pioneer of the mobile-first trend, having gotten its start back in 2008.
In mobile, AOL is working on a variety of fronts, one of them being mobile-first apps.
The mobile-first consumer will plan and buy at the last-second, with high confidence, and high expectations of service quality.
In the second quarter of 2010, according to Analysys International, Chinese mobile users chose Baidu first for mobile queries (34.3%).
It should take note that a few mobile-first sites have misfired by attempting to extend their tablet navigation and sensibility to desktop.
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Reigel suggests that companies think of mobile as a full business strategy, re-imagine client interactions completely, and design new systems for a mobile-first world.
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OK, then what are some ways to create a mobile-first company?
Now the job is to come up with better mobile-first experiences.
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As consumers continue to turn to mobile-first approaches for news consumption, advertisers and publishers will further recognize the need to leverage news content that consumers have opted into.
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According to media reports, the phone would deeply integrate Facebook into the Android operating system, aiding Facebook in its aim to evolve from its Web-based roots into a "mobile-first" company.
The HeartMath sensor is the company's first mobile device after years of working only on computers.
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