December 7, 2014
Uber Faces Legal Action In India Following Arrest Of Rape Suspect
A suspect in the alleged rape of an Uber customer by her driver in New Delhi, India has been arrested. The man is named Shiv Kumar Yadav, and…
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December 5, 2014
Torque, Microsoft’s Alternative To “OK Google,” Now Works On Android Smartphones
Microsoft this morning has released an app for Android smartphone users called Torque that allows you to shake your phone in order to perform a voice search, similar…
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Uber Hires A Mobile Team In Amsterdam To Staff A New Mobile Dev Shop In The City
In between raising more money, fighting Lyft and regulators, and denying it will investigate journalists, Uber’s global expansion continues. To spearhead its mobile growth, Uber is setting up a mobile…
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Disney Will Launch Its First Imagicademy Learning Apps On Dec. 11
Disney just unveiled its digital learning initiative Imagicademy, which will launch on December 11. The company first mentioned Imagicademy last month, but without any real details. As outlined…
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App Annie Now Tracks App User Demographics, Sentiment And More
App Annie is again expanding its core line up of mobile app analytics services with today’s launch of a new Audience Intelligence product that helps app developers better…
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Line Pay, The Messaging App’s Mobile Payments Service, Makes Its Global Debut
Back in October, Line Corporation, which operates the messaging app, announced plans for a mobile payments service. Now the feature, called Line Pay, will be available December 8…
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Kidaptive’s Latest App Learner Mosaic Puts A Preschool Teacher In Parents’ Pockets
Kidaptive, the maker of children’s educational iPad applications with a curriculum focused on Kindergarten readiness, has now released a new app designed just for parents. Called “Learner Mosaic,”…
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AppGyver Launches Supersonic, A New Framework For Hybrid Apps
AppGyver quickly made a name for itself over the last year with the help of Steroids.js and Composer, its drag-and-drop tool for building HTML5 apps. Today, the company…
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Skype Co-Founder Backs Wire, A New Communications App Launching Today On iOS, Android And Mac
Skype co-founder Janus Friis is backing a new communications app called Wire, out now for iOS, Android and Mac OS X. The app itself is the reimagining of…
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Twitter Copies Instagram With New Adjustable Photo Filters
Over-filtering can obliterate the beauty of your photos or make them look cliché. So to give you more nuanced control, Twitter for iOS and Android today replaced its…
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