OIL giant Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS) has launched the most feature-rich corporate apps yet for iPhone, iPad and Android devices — and the company says there’s more to come. The Shell Investor & Media apps are full-featured applications that include almost all of the information on the company’s investor relations and media websites but tailored [...]
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INVESTOR relations departments are hardly renowned for being leaders in using new technology, but it seems you can make an exception when it comes to the iPad and apps designed to deliver IR information on Apple’s popular tablet. Things really heated up this week when two companies launched new apps that best anything we have [...]
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You’ll soon learn why I’m posting shorter, but more frequent posts…In the mean time, I wanted to share with you something I’ve been thinking quite a bit about these days. Think about the generation or two before us. A significant portion of free time was spent consuming media. From print to broadcast, everyday people simply [...]
THERE is currently a lot of discussion in the corporate reporting community – some might call it hype – about companies creating iPhone and iPad apps for their annual reports and other documents. In this post, I am going to try to frame the debate in terms of the pros and cons from an investor [...]
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Rupert Murdoch on Fox News post D8 presentation. He’s pushing the Wall Street Journal as a mainstream paper/product and is pretty blunt about turning off non-payers of premium content.
He also claims that he expects similar subscription numbers that the WSJ.com enjoys on the iPad (1MM+).
Check out the video below.
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Interesting analysis on The Atlantic today regarding the WSJ’s paid content experiment on the iPad.
Let’s remember (from the article):
Apple sold about 500,000 iPad units in its first week
3200 WSJ iPad apps sold so far at $17.29/mo (or bundled together with other editions)
30,000 current WSJ subs trialing a free version of the app — so room for [...]
