On April 1st, Research in Motion released its highly anticipated application store – BlackBerry App World. While it’s unclear whether App World will pose a real threat to Apple’s hugely successful App Store, it’s obvious that application stores have quickly become the focal point of the consumer technology industry.
Since its release in July 2008, close [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
The Rise of the App Store
Posted on April 5, 2009 – 10:51 AM
Weekly Links for Friday April 3, 2009
ESA’s weekly links post consists of the most interesting and relevant articles and posts we come across every week. It will include links from old media news outlets and quality independent blogs and will appear on Friday morning (for now).
The Weekly Links are compiled by the ESA analyst team.
The Gatekeeper
The New Yorker presents [...]
Posted on April 4, 2009 – 1:35 PM
Analyzing the Roots of the Credit Crisis
The global economy is entering into the second year of an ongoing economic crisis that has no apparent end in sight. A series of events, beginning with a wave of defaults by sub-prime mortgage holders in late 2006, morphed into a contagion that has turned the tap off of the world’s credit markets. Through a [...]