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Weekly Firgun Newsletter – January 30 2026
The original version of #FIRGUN was published on Linkedin. Subscribe now to join the 7,500 subscribers that already…
The Magnificent Seven Invest $400 Billion a year in Frontier Technologies
An interesting new report by Dealroom and Flow Partners breaks down the massive investment that the “Magnificent Seven”…
New Entrants tap into gaming for engagement and retention
The battleground for consumer attention and engagement is fiercer than ever. Platforms traditionally known for streaming videos or…
Take Five: The Metaverse
There is a seemingly non-stop stream of articles, reports and news coming out about the metaverse. I try to separate signal from noise in my latest post on the topic
Don’t be too proud to copy
It would be hard to compete with Google on search, Facebook on social networking and Amazon on ecommerce.
The Rise of Intelligent Assistants
Day 9 of my 30 day blogging challenges. This year, 35.6 million Americans will use a voice-activated assistant at least once a month, doubling last year’s figure, forecasts eMarketer. Competition is heating up, and the potential these devices have extends far beyond the home into the car and workspace.
Scale of Messaging Landscape 2017
Now bigger than social media, messaging apps are on practically every phone, and only growing in engagement. This post is my own learning process about this subject.
The End of Wearables
2015 has been the year of wearables HYPE. Want proof? The number of Google search links for “wearables” (25 million) exceeds the number of units sold last year (19 million, according to Juniper Research). On April 24th, the first wearables PLATFORM, Apple Watch, will redefine the role of wearables.
Occupy the App Store!!
As developers grow increasingly desperate for monetization, Amazon (which runs its own app store in 200 countries) identified success factors of the Top 50 applications.
