January 29, 2015
Snapchat Outgrows The Friend Zone
Discover is Snapchat’s big new play in the world of media. It’s a special tab in the app powered by content publishers like ESPN, Yahoo, etc., offering daily…
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January 29, 2015
Social Shopping App Depop Raises $8M, Hires Ex-Reddit GM To Break Into US Market
While eBay tries to get more social and local, and Pinterest deepens is position in e-commerce, a new mobile app out of London is building out a platform…
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FullContact Raises $7 Million, Rolls Out A New Universal Contacts App For iOS
FullContact, a company offering a range of solutions for contact management for both consumers and developers alike, has raised an additional $7 million in Series B funding, it announced…
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Google Offering 24 Hours Of Inbox Invites On The Day Of Outlook’s iOS Launch
Google is serving up its longest ever period of guaranteed invites for Inbox, its alternative mobile email app built by the Gmail team. The official Gmail account tweeted…
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Slyce Snatches Up Mobile Couponing App SnipSnap For $6.5 Million
Visual search provider Slyce is expanding its lineup of mobile applications taking advantage of its proprietary image recognition technology with the acquisition of popular mobile couponing app SnipSnap for…
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Microsoft’s Office For Android Tablets Comes Out Of Preview
Last November, Microsoft launched a beta of its free Office apps for Android tablets and announced that it would make them generally available for Android tablets in early…
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Hopper’s New Travel App Tells You The Best Time To Fly
A mobile application called Hopper, out today on iTunes, is using data and analysis from “billions” of flight prices in order to tell travelers when they should fly…
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App Annie Reveals The Top 9 App Trends From 2014
Mobile analytics provider App Annie, the market leader in the app measurement business today, is out this morning with its annual report that takes a look back at…
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Eventjoy’s New App For Event Goers Adds Real-Time Chat, Live Announcements And More
Eventjoy, the event management platform and Y Combinator graduate that was quickly snatched up by Ticketmaster last fall, is today releasing a new version of its mobile application for…
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Hands-On With Snapchat Discover: Fun Content For Short Attention Spans
Snapchat today launched its media hub Discover. With bite-sized content blips that mix photos, videos, and text, it could become a millenial entertainment destination. And by mixing in…
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