Comedy Central's television show Broad City has been compared to Girls and Sex and the City , but when co-creators, co-writers and co-stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer were creating the web series that ended up being a prototype of their TV show, they were actually channeling Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm . “We didn't realize it was going to be character development for a TV show later,” Glazer tells Fresh Air ‘s Terry Gross.
In the wake of the New York Times innovation report last May, which detailed some of the venerable newspaper's digital shortcomings , one of the major changes the paper made was to appoint an “audience development” editor – someone whose job it would be to help boost the Times ‘ readership online. The person who took that position, Akex MacCallum, talked with Digiday recently about how she is approaching the job , and much of what she said is eminently sensible.
The mobile app market is evolving rapidly. As of June 2014, there were more than 140 billion mobile apps downloaded. And according to Business Today, the downloads in India alone is expected to grow from 1.56 billion in 2012 to 9 billion in 2015. Such statistics re-instate how there is a parallel market place growing at an aggressive rate. And businesses who are present on this board will succeed in gaining market share.