Digital Entertainment World (DEW), the global event marketplace for executives focused on monetizing digital content, yesterday wrapped up its inaugural conference, which took place February 18-20, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. During the unique three-day event, DEW offered 100+ sessions featuring more than 350 notable speakers from leading companies that have a stake in the digital video, music, publishing and/or game industries.

We live in the age of contextual experiences, where digital content is expected to be available on smartphones, smart TVs, tablets and phablets seamlessly, leading to new and exciting content monetization models. But being innovative and extending content to new touchpoints stretches the limits of your CMS, ecommerce systems and functional requirements of data.

In this guest column from Marty Shindler, he provides a recap of CES 2013. At once exhilarating, intriguing and overwhelming, in a positive way, walking through the 1.92 million feet of exhibition space with nearly 160,000 of your closest friends is an adventure unto itself.

In this article titled "It's Make or Break Time for Apple," Guest Columnist Robert Tercek addresses the recent hysteria over the drop in Apple's share price and tackles the timely question: What will Apple accomplish in 2013?

Guest columnist Mike Vorhaus, President of Magid Advisors explains why, despite the doom and gloom written about the prospects for mobile advertising revenue for companies like Facebook and others, mobile advertising revenue is poised to grow.