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July 1, 2014
The FTC is taking T-Mobile to court. Their claim? T-Mobile is allowing shady text messaging scams to sneak onto your bill, and making “hundreds of millions of dollars”…
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Why would prestigious VCs Founders Fund and Lowercase Capital invest $4.5 million in what looks like a Tinder clone? Because Hinge is building a romance graph of what…
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For the narcissist in all of us, Vine has today introduced Loop Counts, which show the number of times someone has watched your gif play over and over…
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There are now well over a million mobile applications in both Google Play and the iTunes App Store alike, and growth of those app marketplaces shows no sign…
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A new application launching today on the iTunes App Store wants to make mobile shopping – including organizing products you like from multiple stores and receiving price drop…
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Moven, a startup that aims to make it easier for people to manage their spending by offering money management tools and real-time spending updates in app form, has…
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5-Tiles, another contender taking aim at disrupting the QWERTY with its five key software keyboard, which it hopes will find a home on wearable devices, has picked up…
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The UK’s first official robotics strategy, drawn up with help from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), is calling for the establishment of real-world test sites over the next…
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Twitter just announced that it’s acquiring mobile ad startup TapCommerce. Re/code’s Ina Fried broke the news about the acquisition earlier this afternoon, reporting that the deal price was…
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Stop. the. presses. Yo, the ridiculously simple messaging app that lets you send a “Yo” to your friends and nothing more, has a new rival. (Or perhaps a…
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