October 24, 2014
First Look At 3D Camera App 3DAround
What if you could shoot those cool 360-degree, swivel-around photos you see on ecommerce sites or in The Matrix with just your smartphone? Then you’d be using the 3DAround…
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October 24, 2014
The Groups App I Wish Facebook Would Build
About once a week, if not more, I find myself typing these words or something similar on Facebook: “I just PM’d you, check your ‘Other’ inbox.” Or, “sorry,…
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Terminal’s Containers Pioneer A New Way Of Developing Apps From The Cloud
Terminal, a San Francisco-based startup founded by some ex-Facebook and Google technical talent, is trying to transform the way we do software development. They’ve built system supporting containers,…
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Amazon Quietly Launches A Functional App Store Within Its Main Android Application
Until recently, if you wanted to install an application from Amazon’s own Appstore onto your Android device, you would have to install the Amazon Appstore app separately. And…
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Looksery Launches A Video Chatting App That Makes You Look More Attractive
Want to look more attractive on video? Or just different? Earlier this year, a company called Looksery popped up on Kickstarter to raise crowdfunding for a new kind…
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Deezer Buys Stitcher, Adds 35K Talk Radio Shows And Podcasts To Its Music Platform
Deezer, the Paris-based music streaming service that competes against the likes of Spotify and Rdio, is switching up its game in the battle for more differentiation, more users…
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College Messaging App DormChat Takes On Yik Yak With Backing From ff Venture Capital
DormChat aims to give people a new way to message each other that’s location-based and anonymity-optional — and it’s starting with college students. The iOS app was released…
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TestFlight Beta Testing Goes Live For All iOS Developers
Apple has pushed its TestFlight Beta testing service live for everyone, the company revealed on its developer news portal today. Registered developers can now invite up to 1,000…
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Facebook Launches Pseudonymous App “Rooms” That Lets You Create Forums About Any Topic
It’s not quite anonymous, but forums standalone app Rooms is Facebook’s first product that allows you to ditch your real name. Rooms lets you set up a mobile-only…
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StumbleUpon’s 5by Relaunches As An App For Chatting About Online Videos With Friends
5by, the video recommendation startup that became StumbleUpon’s first acquisition last fall, is relaunching its mobile apps for iOS and Android today with a slightly different focus: instead of…
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