Speculation. But hes been busy shuffling his c suite, tweaking twitters product, and focusing on revenue. Costello spoke with us. Topic number one, twitters acquisition of nearby project a company that connects social media stars with advertisers. Its absolutely the very beginning of providing opportunities to viners who have done such great work at building this unique community of creators and connecting them to brands we think is just going to be a usome for the brands who want to leverage the great work they do to create stories and then build a career off the fun things. Do you find yourself competing with snap chat with this new generation of video creators . I think about it more as this unique platform weve developed and this awesome there are these stop Motion Animation experts, there are these comedians, there are these sort of vine magicians through some of the frame by frame animation work they do. And being able to leverage their talents to help brands and companies tell t
The battle is being fought outside the courtroom as well, of course. Samsung Just Announced its galaxy edge at an event in new york. On tuesday, apple is set to unveil not only a new iphone or iphones but details on a long awaited smart watch. Wholl ultimately come out on top in the great smart phone war between apple and samsung . I spoke with Michael Gorman and ryan reiff, director of mobile device at i. B. C. I started by asking ryan what his biggest wish for the new iphone is. You have this iphone user base that has been using the same size screen relatively for the life of the iphone since it has been around. This will be the game changer with regard to the screen size. It changes the user experience. It is more real estate. Will it be a game changer if they are the last to market . They have been doing ok without it, right . I think the opportunity there is i think you have a lot of people that maybe were choosing android simply because they could get bigger screens. People are w