Tag: mobile

The first question that interviewers want to ask Petri Hyökyranta, CTO of Rovio, and Andreas Jirenius, co-founder of Strange Quest, is why the Nordic countries are such a focal point and central hub in the international gaming scene.

Couchbase is NoSQL database and data management software maker best known for creating the world’s first “Engagement Database.” Known as the Couchbase Data Platform, the distributed, multi-cloud, and mobile NoSQL document database is based on a memory-first, async everywhere architecture. AWS Startups recently interviewed Wayne Carter, Couchbase’s Vice President of Mobile, about the company’s mission, methods, and most successful ideas. 

Founded in 2012, San Francisco-based AppsFlyer aims to offer data-driven marketers what they need to be successful.

“I think building successful companies and products relies a lot on speed,” says Ryan Hoover, founder and CEO of Product Hunt, an online informational hub for and about startups. “It’s a matter of just how quickly can you figure out which ones will work and which ones won’t.”

If you spend any time on Twitter, you’re bound to see various complaints of why certain people and objects aren’t represented in the official emoji register. This is just the problem that the team at Emojer, a recent graduate of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 batch, is looking to solve.

If you talk to the Big Network providers—the AT&Ts, Verizons, and Vodaphones of the world—you might think that 5G was already here, or at the very least, right around the corner. On the other hand, if you talk to your average mobile RF Front-End (RFFE) engineer, he or she might tell you that 5G is a few years away. Why the discrepancy?

The Internet has transformed the way we consume content. Streaming video platforms like Netflix and YouTube have overtaken traditional video formats like cable TV and live programming among digitally-native audiences.

Founded by Simon Beckerman, the co-founder of PIG magazine and RETROSUPERFUTURE sunglasses, in 2011, London-based startup Depop provides a social marketplace where customers can buy, sell and discover unique items based on what their friends and favorite influencers are digging at the moment.

Before data scientist Jae Young Lee joined Dots in 2017, the mobile game studio only employed one other data scientist who was responsible for manually running all of the company’s Python scripts and SQL queries. Lee took it upon himself to help his colleague and decided to automate everything with AWS Data Pipeline.

Joanna McFarland is the co-founder and CEO of HopSkipDrive, a ridesharing app specifically geared toward alleviating the daily stress of planning hectic family transportation schedules.