May 11, 2015
Wiith Is Like Tinder For Meeting New Friends, Not Dates
If you’re looking to meet new people but don’t want to explicitly commit to it being a date, as on Tinder, a new app called Wiith wants to help. The social…
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May 11, 2015
News Digest App “NYT Now” Drops Subscription Pricing, Offers Brand Sponsorships Instead
The New York Times said today it’s ditching the paid subscription model for its mobile app NYT Now, after failing to convert a significant number of mobile users…
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Android Users Can Now Pre-Register For Upcoming Apps On Google Play
Google has introduced an interesting new feature to the Google Play Store after it began allowing users to pre-register for upcoming Android apps. Read More Powered by WPeMatico
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Skip Googling With Facebook’s New “Add A Link” Mobile Status Search Engine
Mobile link sharing is a clumsy rigmarole of app switching and copy & pasting. So to get more people posting links, Facebook is testing an in-app keyword search…
Read articleMay 8, 2015
SimCity Creator Will Wright’s New App Wants To Create A Graphic Novel Of Your LIfe
The creator of SimCity, Will Wright, has come out with a new app called THRED — and it isn’t a game. Instead, Wright describes it as a natively…
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Flurry Analytics Rolls Out Support For Apple Watch
Yahoo announced this week that it’s adding support for Apple Watch analytics to its free mobile analytics service Flurry, which the company acquired last year. For those developers…
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Rewind’s New App Lets You Create Photo Timelines That Disappear After A Day
Spotted this week at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley, was the newly launched social photo-sharing app Rewind. As its name implies, the idea with this app is to…
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Facebook Launches In-App Purchase Install Ads
Facebook is combining its lucrative app install ads with deep linking so a specific in-app purchase page opens once the app downloads. The result is a powerful new…
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Zero-Fee Stock Trading App Robinhood Nabs $50M From NEA To Go Global
In case you thought paying $7 to $10 to trade a stock in the US was bad, it costs $65 in Australia. So now that its zero-fee stock…
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Mark Pincus Is Back — And His Vintage Management Style Might Be, Too
About two years ago, Mark Pincus brought on former Xbox executive Don Mattrick to run the company, and he took a step back. This was actually a tremendous…
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