July 10, 2014
The App Store, Six Years Later
Happy birthday, iTunes App Store. Apple’s App Store turns six today, and now offers consumers over 1.2 million apps, which have been downloaded 75 billion times, according to…
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July 10, 2014
Vaavud Takes To Kickstarter Again For A New Smartphone Wind Meter That Tracks Direction
Kickstarter has been around long enough that the Kickstarter double-dip is now a well-established thing – basically it’s the practice of a company returning to the crowdfunding well…
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Amazon Goes After Box, Dropbox And Huddle, Launches Zocalo For Secure Enterprise Storage
E-Commerce giant Amazon has made huge competitive inroads into the cloud services market with Amazon Web Services, and today it’s adding another feature that will put it into…
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Microsoft Still Not Selling Its Xbox Business
The second best false Microsoft meme is that the company will break off and sell its Xbox business. Why would it do that? It isn’t clear. It’s also…
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Microsoft CEO Gears The Company For Change, And A Renewed Focus On Productivity And Platforms
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella released a letter to employees today via the Microsoft website, and while the missive is aimed at employees in terms of syntax, it’s clearly…
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LinkedIn Steps Up Its AI Play, Turns Its Contacts App Into A New Connected App
With 40% of LinkedIn‘s 300 million users accessing the social network for professionals via mobile devices, the company has been stepping up a gear on its mobile business, adding new…
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FreedomPop Brings Its Free Wireless Service To Europe, Sans Handsets
FreedomPop, the startup out of LA that has been going after U.S. carriers’ wireless business with a “free” basic mobile offering, is now bringing a SIM-only version of…
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Apple Patents Stronger Sapphire Displays And Illuminated Sapphire Controls
Apple has a few new patent applications with the USPTO (via AppleInsider), all relating to sapphire glass displays and elements for its use in mobile devices. The patents…
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Getty Images And iStock iOS Apps Get A Big Overhaul And The New Embed Function
Stock photography giant Getty Images is updating its iOS apps, including iStock, which gets its update today, and Getting Images proper, which is receiving its overhaul on July…
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HotelQuickly Raises $4.5 Million To Double-Down On Last Minute Hotel Booking In Asia-Pacific
Last-minute hotel booking app HotelQuickly — whose founding team includes two ex-Rocket Internet executives — has raised a further $4.5 million in funding as it doubles-down on the…
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