March 19, 2015
Twin Prime Lands $9.5M To Make Your App Just Work
You know when you’re looking at your phone and you see five bars and you think you’re golden. Then you try to do something and the app you’re…
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March 19, 2015
Medium Now Lets You Write Posts From Its iOS App
Popular blogging platform and publisher Medium has announced that the latest update to its iOS app will finally let users compose posts from their iPhone or iPad. It’s…
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Facebook Plans To Turn Messenger Into A Platform
Next week at its F8 developer conference, Facebook will announce new ways for third parties to offer experiences through its Messenger app, according to multiple sources. Facebook hopes…
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Pebble To Seed $1M Among Pebble Time Smartstrap Projects It Deems Worthy
The Pebble Time Kickstarter for Pebble’s second-generation smartwatch has exceeded all expectations, but the company is still revealing more about the upcoming device: Today, it’s announcing a $1…
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Mobile Web Surfers Again Facing Unexpected Redirects To App Store, Native Apps
Remember the early days of web surfing? You’d be happily browsing through your favorite sites, clicking links – then, boom! – your screen was littered with pop-up advertisements!…
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Giphy’s First Acquisition, Nutmeg, Is A Big Step Towards Mobile
Giphy, the betaworks-backed Google of gifs, has today announced its first acquisition. Nutmeg, an Gif messaging app, will be joining the Giphy squad. The terms of the deal…
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The Rush To Find A Dance Partner Is Causing A Wearables Misstep
This morning at Baselworld, the world’s premiere luxury watch show, there was ample news about wearables. That’s a sign that wearable tech is coming of age in some…
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Opera Buys SurfEasy To Add Secure VPN Services To Its Browser Software
Opera, makers of a suite of software for browsing the web on mobile and desktop devices used by some 350 million consumers, has made another acquisition to build out the…
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Microsoft’s Lumia Range Just Got Even Cheaper With The New $70 Lumia 430
Another day, another new “most affordably priced Lumia” from Microsoft. Or at least that’s how it seems. Just weeks after outing the $81 Lumia 435 (and slightly more…
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Launcher, The Banned iOS Widget That Let You Launch Other Apps, Is Back
With iOS 8, Apple introduced a way for mobile applications to add widgets to its Notification Center that offered snapshots of information, like today’s weather, stock quotes, headlines,…
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