In the traditional mobile model, companies like Asian Paints in India are already gaining newfound business capabilities by implementing mobile platforms that allow sales personnel to connect, manage and analyze customer requirements in real time.
According to our research, vertical industries adjacent to mobile - especially healthcare and life sciences - are poised to experience the most profound mobile business model growth.
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What do you expect the impact of mobile on existing business model to be?
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The entire business model in mobile right now is to keep a captive consumer base in check.
The usage on desktop is declining and Facebook is going to spend a major chunk of its resources in optimizing its business model on mobile platform.
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"We thought we could replicate" the same games business model on mobile as online, said Doug Purdy, a Facebook director of product management, before discovering that developers were building stand-alone apps, tailored to the Android and Apple operating systems.
The success of Virgin Mobile in the U.K. and Amp'd Mobile in the U.S. prove the so-called mobile virtual network operator business model.
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), with its unique business model in the mobile sector, is establishing itself with potentially the greatest growth on mobile devices over the next 10 years.
This model supports the Mobile High-definition Link (MHL) standard, for easy content sharing between the TV and mobile devices and the ability to charge devices via the connection.
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The social firm launched a new event stream platform that takes its existing model as a mobile app for users to share upcoming plans with each other and adds the ability to follow sports teams, schools, and other community fixtures like book shops to your stream.
Now, the cause of those rumblings is quite clear: a touchscreen model that bundles mobile successes with full camera functionality -- it wasn't a smartphone to replace your point-and-shoot, but a powerful hybrid compact that capitalizes on each segment's strengths in an attempt to return cameras to relevancy, and perhaps even bring them into the spotlight.
The San Francisco-based company just announced plans to acquire Model Metrics, a mobile and social cloud consulting services company.
Several technologies, provisioning and business model issues remain before mobile payments will find its way into the consumer mainstream.
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Yet the national business model is unique: mobile operators design the features of the phone, and the manufacturers must comply.
Besides Luo Chuan and Xing Wang, they include Derek Ling of Chinese LinkedIn model Tianji, and mobile gaming craftsman Frank Yu.
The strategy is gaining momentum in mobile and has become the standard model for apps, where many developers can make money from the 1% or so of people who make in-app purchases of virtual goods.
Color's business model, like many free mobile social services, remains a work in progress.
So it only makes sense that Microsoft would adapt a software distribution model that originally appeared on mobile devices: an app store.
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This prompted the Kindle team to devise a new business model, striking deals with mobile-phone operators to allow Kindle users to download e-books without having to pay network fees.
The days (and the auditoriums) are packed with discussion of digital, mobile, brand integration and the agency model of the future topics we have been discussing and debating over and over for years.
In the past few years, this "freemium" business model has become increasingly popular in mobile and social gaming.
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Square fundamentally changed its still-new model of transactions by introducing a mobile payments system that centers on the consumer-merchant relationship rather than the payment itself.
Of course today, Facebook has lost some of its luster as it grapples to control user behaviors migrating to mobile, a massive disruption to its business model.
He had an instant clear answer that was a little different: We could buy any phone except one particular model tied into a specific Virgin Mobile plan.
In trying to wrap my head around the Karma hotspot a new prepaid 4G mobile hotspot service that relies on a novel model I keep coming back to the (often post-Apocalyptic) sci-fi stories where some other commodity or service has supplanted cash or gold as the chief currency.
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The OS has come in for criticism but praise goes too, for having access to the Microsoft productivity suite, and the extensibility of Windows 8 across mobile and the desktop, though the launch model has a pared down version of the OS, RT, which limits productivity.
"A new model of computing is here, and mobile is the next large platform, " says Schmidt.
Another strong example of the user-curation model outside of the music industry is mobile apps.
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