January 15, 2015
Monument Valley Team Reveals The Cost And Reward Of Making A Hit iOS Game
Games and the formula that leads to their success can be a bit of a mystery, perhaps more so on mobile. One of 2014’s big hits, both in…
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January 15, 2015
Fiksu Finds More Evidence Of iOS 9 Testing Underway
This afternoon, mobile app marketing platform Fiksu unveiled new data indicating that iOS 9, the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system, is now being publicly tested. According to the company’s research,…
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Camu Brings Its All-In-One Camera App, Photo Editor And Mobile Messenger To Android
Camu, a mobile app for editing photos and video that was earlier named one of the App Store Best of 2014 applications following its launch this past August,…
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Apple’s R&D Department Conjures A Pop-Up iPhone Home Button Joystick
Apple has a new patent application that describes a pop-up home button which can work as an analog joystick. The patent, uncovered by Patently Apple, describes how the…
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Skydio Makes Drones Smart So Pilots Can Be Dumb With $3M From Andreessen
“In five years, the notion of a drone crashing will be a weird, foreign thing” says Adam Bry, co-founder of drone auto-pilot startup Skydio and founding member of Google’s Project Wing…
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Timeline Launches News App To Give You The Context Behind The Day’s Headlines
One big complaint about current news coverage is that there’s not enough context — an article or TV report might tell you what happened today, but it gives…
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Sequoia Invests In Mapillary To Crowd-Map The World Faster Than Street View
Google’s Street View is an astounding service, unimaginable a few years ago. But photographing streets and stitching them together is a costly and time-consuming exercise. Mapillary thinks it…
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Apple Patents iCloud-Based Touch ID Syncing For Devices And Apple Pay Terminals
Apple has a new patent published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider) that shows off a system through which Touch ID information could be collected on a primary…
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Xiaomi Launches Mi Note Phablet To Fight The iPhone 6 Plus
Xiaomi, the Chinese company that recently became the world’s most valuable startup (depending on your definition of startup), took the wraps off its latest phone in Beijing today……
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Samsung Reportedly Approached BlackBerry With A Takeover Bid (Update: BlackBerry Denies)
Update: BlackBerry has responded with an official denial of takeover talks, while somewhat paradoxically also claiming it doesn’t comment on rumors or speculation. Full statement below: BlackBerry Limited…
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