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Hinchcliffe (2013) predicts that the development of mobile strategies will continue to be a major challenge and that branded mobile applications (branded apps) will be widely adopted in the coming years. Companies have to adapt to this new culture....
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many internet-based companies offer goods and services to consumers for free based on an expectation of associated advertising revenue. the effects of advertising, however, are notoriously difficult to measure. “there's a lot of hype around mobile apps...
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Facebook and other major companies like Netflix release their mobile apps once every two weeks.....
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Yes, currently one of the main sources of information are internet news portals and social media portals viewed on a smartphone. Therefore, companies and institutions create new versions of their websites adapted to their display on smartphones and other mobile devices. In addition, some companies and institutions create applications, smartphone apps, which are specialized programs for mobile devices, with the help of which a smartphone user gets convenient access to specific, current information services and other individual companies and institutions.
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Yes, now more and more institutions and business entities are changing their websites to new versions, which are also adapted to their display in web browsers on smartphones. For this purpose, WordPress platform. As more and more citizens use various internet information services available on smartphones, more and more companies and institutions are improving their websites to make them fully accessible and useful also on mobile devices.