February 26, 2015
Vurb Is Crazy Enough To Fight Google
Google Search was not built for mobile. It’s all about lists of web pages, but the small screen is ruled by apps. That’s why if Google launched today, it…
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February 26, 2015
Google Starts Testing Mobile App Ads In The Google Play Store
Google announced this morning the launch of a pilot program which will allow mobile application developers the ability to advertise their apps directly within the Google Play store. These…
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Samsung Filed The Most Patents In Europe In 2014, U.S. Led The Field By Country
While IBM is number-one when it comes to the number of patents filed in the U.S., in Europe, Samsung is leading the pack. Today, the European Patent Office released…
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Nickelodeon Unveils “Noggin,” A Mobile Subscription Service For Preschoolers Arriving In March
Nickelodeon today unveiled its new mobile streaming subscription service called Noggin, which will be aimed at preschoolers and priced at $5.99 per month when it launches next month.…
Read articleFebruary 25, 2015
If You Think Tinder Needs More Cute Pets, BuzzFeed Has The App For You
Oh, BuzzFeed. Don’t ever change. The company just released what it says is its second ever mobile app, called Cute Or Not. As you might expect from the…
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Hands On With The New Moto E
Just this morning, Motorola sent over its brand new Moto E, a $149 (off-contract) Android smartphone that wants to give budget-conscious shoppers a device choice with fewer compromises.…
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With $3M In Funding, Airtable Makes Complex Databases Usable On Your Mobile Phone
A startup called Airtable wants to make data more accessible on mobile devices, by combining the ease-of-use of spreadsheets with the power of relational databases. It’s raised $3…
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Motorola Debuts The New Moto E With A Unique Press Conference
Motorola has a brand new Moto E, which packs a quad-core processor and LTE into a low-cost package that’s available to everyone. The Moto E starts at just…
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Layer, Which Lets Developers Add Messaging To Any App, Launches To Public
Layer, the company making it possible for developers to add rich messaging capabilities to their apps without having to build their own infrastructure from the ground up, is…
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Microsoft’s After-Hours Employee App Project Offers A Slate Of New Software
Microsoft Garage is an initiative at Microsoft that works like an internal accelerator, taking ideas that employees have outside of their ordinary day jobs and turning them into…
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