April 22, 2015
Facebook Messenger Makes 10% Of Global VOIP Calls
Facebook Messenger wants to replace the telephone, not just SMS, and it’s on its way. Messenger now makes up 10% of global Voice Over IP calls, CEO Mark…
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April 22, 2015
Two New Apple Watch Apps, Knock And oneID, Let You Unlock Your Mac From Your Wrist (And More)
As mobile developers rush to release applications compatible with Apple’s new wearable device, the Apple Watch, many are still wondering what sorts of app experiences make sense for…
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“Hello” Is Facebook’s New Android-Only Social Caller ID App
Say goodbye to calls from unknown numbers. Facebook’s newest app Hello instantly matches phone numbers of incoming and outgoing calls to Facebook profiles to show you info about…
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Stop Calling. Schedule Local Biz Appointments With MyTime, Which Just Scored $9.25M
“I don’t know anyone who likes calling businesses. It’s not fast or convenient, and it definitely doesn’t feel like the future.” Mark Zuckerberg may as well have been…
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Mobile-First Word Processing App Quip Adds Chat Rooms, Making It More Like Slack
Products like Slack, Hipchat, Yammer and Asana have been slowly picking apart the world of enterprise communication, giving workers new, easier to use, and frankly more fun platforms…
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Mixmax Raises $1.5M From Harrison Metal, Floodgate To Bring Interactive Apps To E-mail
Mixmax, which is making e-mail interactive with apps that set-up calendar meetings and polls, raised $1.5 million from Harrison Metal, Floodgate’s Mike Maples and Ann Miura-Ko, Ram Shriram of…
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Fashion Marketplace Poshmark Raises $25 Million More, Heads To Apple Watch
Three years ago, fashion marketplace Poshmark launched on iOS with an app that allowed women to buy and sell secondhand items, including clothing, shoes and other accessories, right…
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Got A Team Distributed All Over The World? Teleport’s Tool, Flock, Finds You A Meeting Hub
The thesis behind Teleport, a new Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup from a group of early Skype alums, is that workers should be free to migrate to whichever city and country suits…
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Facebook, eBay, Vice News And Others First To Support Chrome’s New Push Notifications
With last week’s release of an updated version of the Chrome browser for Android, Google debuted a new feature that will allow websites to engage with mobile users…
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How Facebook’s React Native Will Change Mobile Apps
Facebook just open-sourced its React Native framework for building mobile apps. React Native promises to let developers write JavaScript while still delivering a real native user interface. That’s…
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