April 5, 2015
Wag Launches Its On-Demand Dog Walking App In San Francisco
Wag, a startup that helps connect pet owners and dog walkers with a mobile app, has touched down in San Francisco. The company, formerly only in operation in Los…
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April 4, 2015
Live Video Is The New Clickbait
The arms race for eyeballs online has a new weapon: live video streaming, a la Meerkat and Periscope. This type of content is innately ephemeral. Blink and you’ll…
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Tinder’s First Advertisement Is One Big Experiment
This week, Tinder unveiled its first ad in the form of a video promoting Budweiser’s next #Whatever, USA campaign. The video ad will show up for Tinder users…
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Why Your Favorite Snapchat Apps No Longer Work
Outside of a mobile application’s official product, there tends to exist a broader ecosystem catering the wants and unmet desires of its user community. For Instagram, there are apps…
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Do Something Epic With Everfest’s Festival Finder
No one on their death bed says “all the things I could have owned?!” It’s “all the things I could have done?!” The world is shifting from a…
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Weekends Are The Best Time To Promote Most Apps, Study Finds
According to a new report released today, the best time for mobile application developers to promote or launch a new application across a number of categories tends to be on…
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Microsoft Debuts Office Lens, A Document-Scanning App For iOS And Android
Microsoft today launched Office Lens, a mobile document scanner app that works with OneNote, for iOS and Android smartphones. The app, which allows users to snap photos of…
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LinkedIn Buys Refresh.io To Add Predictive Insights To Its Products
LinkedIn, the social network for professionals with nearly 350 million users, has been making a push into the area of anticipatory computing, where it predicts what kind of…
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Conceivable’s New App Puts A Fertility Clinic In Your Pocket
For women struggling to conceive, in vitro fertilization can be a successful, but also fairly expensive, option. At approximately $15,000 per cycle, and requiring two cycles on average…
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Hudl Scores $72.5M From Accel To Rally Teams To Its Sports Video Coaching Tool
You might not have heard of Hudl, but it’s how 100,000 sports teams spent $30 million last year to review game tape on mobile. Hudl never raised institutional…
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