Mobile Helps Software Eat the World. Will it Eat Your Business? - Headlines and Show NotesThe Coming Massive Mobile Disruption Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World - WSJ Verizon-AOL, Facebook Instant Articles, and the Future of Digital Advertising - Stratechery by Ben Thompson Merrill Lynch's mobile benefits site sees 46pc jump in visits - Mobile Commerce Daily - Banking Smartphones Are Closing the Retail Ecommerce Device Gap - eMarketer Half of US Mobile Subscribers Aged 65+ Now Own A Smartphone Verizon-AOL deal sets stage for cross-screen advertising play - Mobile Marketer - Carrier networks CEO Tim Armstrong Says AOL Is Staying In The Content Business (And He’s Not Selling TechCrunch) | TechCrunch Facebook’s global dominance of messaging, in two maps - Quartz Israeli ad blocker Shine could threaten mobile advertising - Business Insider Mobile sophistication lags in hotel industry: L2 - Luxury Daily - Mobile Millennials Most Likely to Say They Trust Businesses to Keep Their Personal Info Private Verizon's AOL Deal Could Lead to New Privacy Problems - NationalJournal.com The Game Changer for Mobile Commerce - Thinks Out Loud Episode 89 Why Millennials Matter - Thinks Out Loud Episode 116 Mobile Commerce is Here To Stay Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur You might also want to check out these slides I had the pleasure of presenting recently about how to lead mobile-focused digital transformation within large organizations (a topic we've been talking about a fair bit lately). Here are the slides for your reference: Putting Digital to Work: 4 Key Actions to Drive Digital Transformation from Tim Peter (And, yes… you can hire me to speak at your next event, too). Contact information for the podcast: podcast@timpeter.com Technical details: Recorded using an Audio-Technica AT2035 studio condenser microphone through a Mackie Onyx Blackjack USB recording interface into Logic Express 9 for the Mac. Running time: 14m 28s You can subscribe to Thinks Out Loud in iTunes [iTunes link], subscribe via our dedicated podcast RSS feed (or better yet, given that Google has now killed Reader, sign up for our free newsletter). You can also download/listen to the podcast here on Thinks using the player below: