June 5, 2015
Here’s What’s Involved In Devising And Building An App
Building an app isn’t just coming up with an idea and then coding (or finding someone to code it for you). There’s a lot involved in the end-to-end…
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June 5, 2015
Fresco News Aims To Build A Crowdsourced Network For Breaking News
If you’ve ever wanted to contribute photos or videos to your local newscast, you might get your chance soon, thanks to a new startup called Fresco News. There…
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iHeartRadio Has Grown To 70M Registered Users
Services like Pandora, Spotify and whatever Apple is working on tend to get most of the headlines, but iHeartRadio says it has been building a big audience of its…
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Facebook Messenger Ditches Constant Mapping To Lay Groundwork For More Location Features
Facebook is removing the confusing, slightly creepy always-on location sharing feature in Messenger for a more explicit, one-time way to share where you are or will be. Location…
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Swarm Now Lets You Message Friends Of Friends
Swarm has just released an update that brings with it the ability message friends of friends. This means that whenever you come across a user in the app…
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Facebook Lite Is A Stripped Down Android App For The Developing World
Facebook can be painfully slow on weak network connections or prohibitively expensive on stingy data plans that are common in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. So today, Facebook…
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Airbnb Adds A Pricing Recommendation Tool For Renters
Airbnb renters will now get pricing recommendations for their listings as part of an update to the room-sharing service today. It’s called Price Tips, and it creates ongoing suggestions…
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PicsArt Raises $15M To Build A Community Around Photo Editing
PicsArt, a photo-sharing service that’s building a community around creatively editing pictures, has raised $15 million in a venture round led by Insight Ventures with Sequoia Capital also…
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WantList, A Tinder For Shopping, Arrives On iOS And Apple Watch
London-headquartered fashion shopping site Styloko, whose image recognition technology helps women find similar products to those they like at better prices, today begins testing the concept that online shopping…
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Periscope Update Brings A Global Map View Of Active Broadcasts
Periscope users will now be able to open up a map that will show which videos are live around the world as part of an update today. Instead…
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