5 Favorite Wedding Apps
Yesterday on 'Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg,' guests Naa-Sakle Akuete, who nailed her dream wedding by spending only $10,000, and Carolyn Gerin, the co-founder of the WedTech Summit, an annual wedding and technology conference, both gave listeners their Top 5 Favorite Apps to plan a wedding. With the national average for a wedding in the US [Read More]
Radio Recap: Wedding Tech
Currently weddings are a $300 billion dollar global industry employing over 800,000 people in the United States alone. And now, with the recent legalization of gay marriage in all 50 states, the marriage business is set to gain another $2.5 billion dollars annually. So if technology has made our lives easier, more efficient, and more [Read More]
Top 5 Favorite Apps
On this week's back-to-school episode of 'Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg' life coach Erica Diamond gave her Top 5 Favorite Apps: 1. One Note FREE - iOS & Android Screenshot the schoolyear calendar or your favorite cookbook recipes, clip your kids artwork, report cards, or store design ideas for your bathroom redesign and store it all in the cloud! Think of it [Read More]
Radio Recap: Back-to-School Tech
Last year families with two children or more averaged around $650 on back-to-school items. But for 2015 it’s already been estimated that consumers are cutting back, averaging out to about $207 per student—down from $244 in 2014. While U.S. consumers are estimated to spend about $68 billion on back-to-school and back-to-college items this year—down 9% [Read More]
Why You Need to Know Your Kids’ Passwords
By Kay Bransford Our kids are online constantly and most of us have no idea exactly our kids are getting into. We've talked with them about the permanence of the medium, counseled them on how to behave and interact with others, but yet we still fail to recognize that we have rights, as parents, to [Read More]
Radio Recap: Retail & Tech
Now that we’re a little over eight years from the launch of the first iPhone, retailers have learned that to win over its customers, convenience is key and smartphones are leading the charge. Whether it’s through mobile sites or mobile apps, the smartphone has streamlined the purchase-making decision process by allowing buyers to connect to [Read More]
Radio Recap: Mobile Tickets
Now that mobile payments currently account for a little more than half of all e-commerce, mobile ticketing can also help increase revenue for ticket vendors and entertainment events alike. No-shows and empty seats are a thing of the past as mobile ticket providers can sell last second seats with the ability to sell tickets up [Read More]
Radio Recap: Travel Apps
Currently over 60% of smartphone owners have downloaded some sort of travel-related app. Of those, 30% have booked a last minute reservation from their phone and 24% of both business and leisure travelers have paid for their trip via mobile, all totaling an estimated $150 billion dollars spent in just mobile bookings alone. Today [Read More]