Image by Getty Images via Daylife (This is the second of a two part post.   The first part can be found here) The ubiquitous iPhone/iPod Touch devices are stealing Bug Labs’s thunder.  To understand why, realize that the iPod/iPhone are no longer mere personal music devices carried around in a pocket.  Instead, they’re increasingly purchased [...]

Image via CrunchBase Greg Yardley, CEO of Pinch Media gave a fascinating presentation at last night’s NYC iPhone Developer Meetup.  Greg’s slides were chock full of numbers and data gathered by Pinch Media’s iPhone analytics platform.  As you might expect, I was in heaven. Greg demonstrated his evidence that a free ad-supported app rarely earns [...]

(This blog post was featured in Silicon Alley Insider’s 10 Things Investors Need To Know Before OpenTable’s IPO) Online restaurant reservations company OpenTable filed for an IPO on Friday, revealing their finances for the world to see.  The SEC filing contains all the financial figures you would expect: revenue, expenses breakdown, details of the public [...]

Mint, Thrive, Cake, Yodlee, Quicken Online, Buxfer, Geezeo, Wesabe, and Moneytrackin‘. These are just a few of the many companies in the crowded field of web apps for personal finance management (PFM).  These consumer sites all perform the same basic service: aggregating data from disparate financial accounts (savings, checking, credit cards, loans etc), helping users [...]

Spend 10 minutes with me and I’ll mention Yelp multiple times. I guess you would say I’m a Yelp evangelist.  A member of the Yelp Elite Squad and frequent attendee at Yelp NYC events, I have even given Yelp’s app a coveted spot on the front screen of my iPhone.  And it warms my heart [...]