If you’re anything like me, you have tons of meaningless photos occupying your phone's precious memory; even weirder, you know they're meaningless, yet you decide to keep them anyway. Maybe it's because you have a subconscious sentimental attachment to pointless pictures, or maybe you're just lazy.
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Gauge Market Sentiment
For young investors, the stock market can be a scary place. Making your first investments can be daunting, to say the least. For years, young investors have searched for reliable sources to find trustworthy financial information. Clearly, you’ve done your due diligence, as you are currently reading an Economix101 article.
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Yik Yak Attack
Yik Yak, a new social media application, is taking college campuses by storm. The app intertwines two proven platform concepts based on Twitter (TWTR) and Reddit. This unique combination, which permits users to create, and vote on, popular threads, has catapulted Yik Yak to the social media forefront.
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Will Minecraft Save Microsoft?
Pics From Last Night
Have you ever passed out at a party and awoken to embarrassing photos of your epic night, taken courtesy of your best friends? Have you ever been so embarrassed by your shenanigans that you wanted to delete them? A new application, called Seahorse, aims to solve this dilemma by creating collectively owned photos amongst friends.
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Celebs & Cyber Security
Apple (AAPL) found itself in hot water this week after allegations arose that its iCloud servers had been hacked. The breach targeted celebrity photo streams and ultimately resulted in nude photos of celebrities, including Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence, being leaked to the public. As has been reported, all photos were stolen directly from celebrity iCloud accounts after having been transferred from mobile devices.
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The Social Media Revolution
Over the last six years, companies like Facebook (FB) and Twitter (TWTR) have risen to the forefront of the social media revolution, along with their stock prices. These companies are praised for their seemingly limitless pools of innovation and young talent; yet, what most investors and analysts fail to recognize is that these companies would be seemingly irrelevant if not for the rise of mobile applications.
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