How Blockchain is Revolutionizing mHealth
With a large part of society turning toward the investment and adoption of cryptocurrency, you’ve probably heard a lot of talk about blockchain. But, what is blockchain? Simply put, blockchain is a shared digital ledger composed of records, or “blocks”, that is essentially used to record transactions and track assets. To serve our communities such […]
Top 5 Mobile Apps for Crypto Trading
Ever since the inception of Bitcoin, the concept of digital currency has remained on a steady incline in both popularity and value. However, it’s unlikely that anyone could have guessed the rapid expansion that has plagued the crypto world within the past few years. Nowadays, it seems as though Bitcoin is destined to grow to […]
The New Meta: Facebook’s Rebranding
Depending on who you talk to, the word ‘Meta’ could mean several things. In video gaming, calling something ‘Meta’ means that the community generally agrees the item(s) or strategy to be the best in the game at the time. Or, for use in search engine optimization, HTML ‘meta’ tags are used to gain visibility for […]
Google Lowers App Store Fees: Everything you Need to Know
In a recent blog post, Google announced that they will be lowering the fees they charge developers for in-app subscriptions from 30% to 15%. This news comes as a major win for the Google app developer community after voicing their concern over high in-app service fees for years. Google writes: “To help support the specific […]
mHealth Security: Is Your App Doing Enough to Protect Patient Data?
Did you know that the healthcare market is one of the biggest targets for cyberattacks? In fact, in 2020 the percentage of US healthcare breaches increased by over 55 percent; more than any other industry. And, with the increasing use of telemedicine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, mHealth applications are no exception to this growing […]
2021 Cybersecurity Attacks that are Threatening Businesses
It seems as though every day we hear about another business that’s victimized by a data breach. In the first half of 2021 there were 1767 publicly reported data breaches which led to the exposure of over 18 billion confidential records. Yes, we said billion. And, the businesses that were lucky enough to not become […]
App Marketing Series: 3 Tips to Grow Your App by Putting Retention First
Recently, the Dogtown Media team sat down with our friends at Yodel Mobile – an award-winning app marketing agency – to explore app retention. Be sure to check out their phenomenal app marketing services, and be sure to reach out! You never get a second chance to make a first impression. So why don’t we […]
Deepfakes: A New Frontier or Threat?
There’s no denying it, the rise of deepfake technology is here, and it is a viable and troubling cyber security threat. In recent years, this technology has become prominent on a worldwide scale, but the potential damage caused by deepfakes can impact one individual or influence thousands. Deepfake technology has wormed its way into many […]
Remote Therapeutic Monitoring: Everything you Need to Know
Issued on July 13, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposal (the “Proposed MPFS/Rule”) that aims to formalize Remote Therapeutics Monitoring (RTM). Until now, RTM has largely acted as an addition to the more well-established Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM) system from the regulatory […]
iOS 15: 5 Features to Keep Your iPhone Safe
Over the past couple of weeks, iPhone users from all over the world have been updating their phones to iOS 15 to experience the new features of Apple’s latest operating system. And from our perspective as a California-based iPhone app development company with a presence in San Francisco, New York City, and London, we see […]