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What’s Going on in the Lexington Community

Social, Mobile, Local Lexington
When: Tuesday, Oct 25, 9.00am – 4.00pm
Where: Hyatt Regency Lexington, 401 W. High St., Lexington

Learn about the many tools and technologies available to take your business into the realm of Social Mobile Local and how you can leverage these technologies to maximize your success!

 

Join us to hear from John Meister of Pheeva. John will give a high level introduction to Unity, which is a game engine and development environment for PC/Mac, web, mobile, and consoles. Plus we will enjoy some pizza and discuss upcoming events.

 

Five Across will be an informal gathering of entrepreneurs, investors and service providers from Lexington. Each Five Across meeting features presentations from local entrepreneurs who will pitch their ideas to a panel of judges for the chance to win $500.

 

Breakfast talks to spark ideas.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

Nov 2 – Startup Slam/Startup Advantage
Nov 11-12 – HackerSpace Workshop
Nov 15 - Commercialize Your Idea

 

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Mobile, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the mobile technology industry every week. 

This week’s edition focuses on Apple as an important player in the gaming space, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. announcing that the first mobile phone using an Alibaba-developed operating system will go on sale in China at the end of the month, the possibility that shopping on tablets could someday outpace shopping on smartphones and even computers, and Tomi Ahonen outlining Nokia’s performance prior to the company’s February announcement of its partnership with Microsoft.

It’s happening: iPad is eating consoles’ lunch
By Christian Zibreg, 9to5Mac

Reports from Nintendo talk about sales declines and price cuts. Most of their losses are iPad’s gains. As an industry, consoles used to be 80% of the gaming market and today are only 40%. This article talks about those trends and has a great infographic at the bottom breaking down tablet usage, gaming and social media behavior and platform metrics.

Alibaba Rolls Out Mobile-Phone Operating System
By Owen Fletcher, The Wall Street Journal

While we are mostly focused on what North American platforms are doing, we should take note of new developers in China. Smartphone adoption as an absolute number already higher than that in the U.S. and the rate of 3G adoption in China is accelerating. Alibaba’s announcement around their mobile operating system is just a preview of upcoming trends in China and Asia.

Tablets Give E-Commerce a Real-World Feel
By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times

I have been discussing with folks when people choose to use their phone vs PC vs tablet. Behavior is still mixed but it’s interesting that 40% of people still choose to use their tablet when a PC is available to them. Something about the user experience of tablets is appealing and even drawing consumers to spend money through their shopping/browsing experiences on those devices.

What’s the best-case scenario for Nokia?
By Kevin C. Tofel, GigaOM

The Microsoft/Nokia discussion continues here with an opinion piece from Kevin Tofel. Looks like under the best of scenarios, Nokia is still trading market share by abandoning Symbian for Windows 7. For Microsoft, they will not see any volume uptick in time for holiday this year.

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Gaming, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the gaming industry every week.

This week’s edition highlights the key to making a successful Facebook game, an in-depth look at the development of successful Facebook game Monster World, EA CEO John Riccitiello saying that consoles aren’t the dominant force in gaming today, and Amazon.com‘s recent hire of a veteran games designer.

- Andy

StartupDigest Gaming is curated by:
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What You Need to Read This Week

This week’s edition highlights a conversation with the former SCE Worldwide president and current London Venture Partners member Phil Harrison, a survey that dads are more likely to be the social-media guardian, John Carmack claiming that consoles will fall to Moore’s Law, the five stages of grief the game industry must go through to reach a Golden Age, and a potential price increase for iPad games.

- Andy

StartupDigest Gaming is curated by:
Andy Ellerhorst

 

What You Need to Read This Week