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Instagram kills newly launched ‘Being’ app, which saw 50K downloads its first week
In case there was any doubt where Instagram was drawing the line when it came to its shutdown of third-party feed reading apps, it appears that its decision to revoke API access doesn’t just extend to those that offer an alternative means of browsing the photo-sharing service. It also reaches apps that offer an expansion of what you can do with Instagram – for example, the… Read More
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Google gives the Play Developer Program Policy Center a makeover and updates its rules
Google today rolled out a refreshed look-and-feel for its Developer Program Policy Center, aimed at making its guidelines for app developers easier to locate, read through and understand. The revamp includes a visual makeover utilizing Google’s own, colorful “Material Design” to organize the policies by themes like “Restricted Content” or “Privacy and… Read More
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MongoLab Changes Its Name To mLab As It looks Beyond Database Management
MongoLab has long been the de facto service for deploying and managing MongoDB databases, but now that the company has cornered this market, it’s looking to expand into new areas. Before launching any new products, though, the company decided to change its name from MongoLab to mLab. MongoLab/mLab CEO and co-founder Will Shulman tells me that he always saw MongoLab as the first part of… Read More
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Venmo Halts New Developer Access To Its API
This is not how you run a platform. Developers remember. Pull the rug out from under them once, and they’ll be reluctant to stand with you in the future. So despite having a record-setting January with $1 billion transferred in its peer-to-peer payments app, Venmo just shot itself in the foot. After six years of providing an API for developers to build experiences atop its money… Read More
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RevTwo Brings Real-Time Screen Sharing, Chat, & Voice Calls To Mobile Apps
What if mobile applications weren’t standalone, isolated experiences, but could actually connect users to each other – or even to the app’s developers – with a push of a button? That’s the vision behind a startup called RevTwo, exiting from stealth today. Its mobile app SDK for iOS lets developers offer a range of in-app support services for an… Read More
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Cyanogen’s New MOD Platform Will Allow Developers To Deeply Integrate Their Apps Into Its OS
Typically, mobile apps are stand-alone experiences that play nicely with the operating system but aren’t fully integrated in it. Cyanogen — the company best known for its Android-based Cyanogen OS — is launching MOD today, a new developer platform that will give app developers the ability to integrate their apps more directly into the operating system. The basic idea here is… Read More
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Singapore-based Cloud Communication Startup Wavecell Scores $1.6M Series A
Wavecell, a Singaporean startup that creates APIs for communication tools, has raised a $1.6 million Series A. The round was led by Qualgro Asean Fund with participation from Wavemaker Pacific, and will be used to grow Wavecell’s market presence in Southeast Asia. Branch Metrics Snags $35 Million More For Its Deep Linking & App Discovery Business
One of the problems in the early days of the mobile app era was that it wasn’t possible to link to the pages within apps the same way you could link to pages on the open web. But technology has adapted to solve that problem over the years, both on the part of the mobile OS platform makers themselves, as well as via third parties who today provide smarter links to the content within apps… Read More
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China Poised To Overtake U.S. & Japan In iOS Revenue Within The Next Year
Apple’s lead over Google when it comes to revenue generated by the companies’ respective mobile application markets, the App Store and Google Play, has been cemented, according to a new report out today from App Annie. And this continues to be true even though Google Play is now leading when it comes to downloads, the firm found. In 2014, Google Play had a 60 percent download… Read More
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Google Play Adds Support For Promo Codes, Including In-App Purchases
Promo codes are coming to Google Play! Android developers will finally be able to market their applications, as well as distribute copies of paid apps for free, and more, by way of promo codes – a feature Apple has supported for years. Thanks to a new option spotted in the Google Play Developer Console, it appears that app makers will now be able to distribute codes for both apps and… Read More
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