Apperian, the Boston-based company that offers mobile app management (MAM) as a service, announced today that it was exposing the different pieces of its platform as a set of open APIs. This will allow developers to tap into the various parts of the Apperian solution and take adv … | Continue reading
After months of speculation, last week the U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron formerly announced a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union. But what do startups think? Read More | Continue reading
Mobile OS maker Jolla, who with its Android alternative Sailfish has been trying to carve out a niche for a third platform in the smartphone space for the past five years, has announced it’s signed a new OEM partner: African OEM Mi-Fone. Read More | Continue reading
Remember Darkspore? It's the 2011 video game that took the creature editing tech from Will Wright's Spore and turned it into a basic action-role-playing game. Soon, it'll be no more.Darkspore closes its doors on 1st March 2016, EA announced on the Darkspore forum. After that date … | Continue reading
Counter-Strike eSports continues its impressive growth in popularity - and Valve is pumping more money into prize pools as a result.It's just announced that beginning with MLG Columbus 2016, each CS:GO Major Championship prize pool will be a cool $1m. That's up from $250,000."Whe … | Continue reading
Xiaomi has announced the Mi 4S in China today. The successor to the Chinese phone maker’s 2014 hit handset, the Mi 4, brings a number of improvements in performance, design and build quality. The new 5-inch device features a metal frame with a glass front and back, and weighs in … | Continue reading
BlackBerry is not the smartphone powerhouse it used to be, but it’s been making a concerted effort to hold on to its position as a go-to place for enterprise customers, specifically in highly secure environments. As part of that strategy, today the company announced that it has a … | Continue reading
Marketing summit Advertising Week Europe has announced it will be taking a thought leadership roadshow around the continent ahead of the main London event in April. | Continue reading
Spotify this week announced that much of its data will be moved from its own servers to the Google Cloud Platform, marking what is seen as a major coup for the search giant. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Spotify's music files will still be hosted on a storage service from A … | Continue reading
Xiaomi has officially announced the Mi 5, its latest flagship device, at events in Beijing and Barcelona today. The Mi 5 follows the Mi 4 launched 18 months ago. It is a 5.15-inch smartphone with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor, up to 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, a 3,000m … | Continue reading
The sequel to monster movie Pacific Rim will be directed by the executive producer and head writer of Daredevil, Deadline reports. Steven S. DeKnight will helm Pacific Rim 2, his first ever directing gig after creating TV series Spartacus, and helping to to make Netflix original … | Continue reading
Article-saving app company Pocket is finally starting to pick up revenue through advertising. In a blog post today the company announced that it’s beginning to display sponsored posts in the app, which works on web browsers, Mac desktops, and multiple mobile platforms. But Pocket … | Continue reading
Spotify announced today that they have selected Google Cloud Platform as an infrastructure partner for their popular music streaming service. Up until now, it appears Spotify have been mostly managing that hardware burden themselves via multiple providers, however the music compa … | Continue reading
Luxury SUVs are all the rage right now: Maserati just announced the Levante a few days ago, there's the new Bentley Bentayga, a Rolls-Royce in the works, and the Porsche Cayenne and Macan. But let's bring it back, way back, to the granddaddy of the high-end SUV market — Land Rove … | Continue reading
Billing platform for enterprises Aria Systems announced last week that it closed a $50 million investment. Rembrandt Venture Partners, Madison Bay Capital Partners, and Hercules Technology Growth Capital joined the round as new investors. Aria said that “investor interest was fue … | Continue reading
For those who have been using Robinhood to manage their stock sales, the app has now gotten considerably faster. Announced today, the app now offers ‘Instant’ to make trading stock more efficient. Instant covers both ‘Instant Deposits’ and ‘Instant Access to Funds.’ Although both … | Continue reading
Today Snapchat announced a new feature called Birthday Party, which is essentially a duet of lenses – one of which can only be used on your birthday, and one that can only be used if snapping friends on their birthday. Snapchat will also put a cake emoji next to the name of frien … | Continue reading
Buddybuild, a startup with a cloud service for building, testing, deploying, and getting feedback on mobile apps, today announced that it has raised a $1.2 million round of funding. Also today, the startup is announcing that it can now support Android apps, not just iOS apps. Rat … | Continue reading
Volvo is on a roll this year. Following reports that the Swedish car manufacturer is building high-tech safety trucks with Samsung and scheming to replace your car keys with your phone, the company just announced it is partnering with Spotify to integrate a native streaming app i … | Continue reading
Education startup MasterClass announced today that it has scored a $15 million investment led by New Enterprise Associates. NEA partner Rick Yang will join the board at MasterClass. The company offers on-demand classes taught by celebrity instructors like Serena Williams, Kevin S … | Continue reading
Leeo announced today that it is now integrated with the automating service IFTTT. What this means is that you’ll be able to have more smart products, apps, and web services communicate with its smart alarm monitor for fire and carbon monoxide. Founded by Adam Gettings and Eddy Ch … | Continue reading
BARCELONA — Qualcomm's Quick Charge 3.0 technology will let phones with the Snapdragon 820 processor recharge from 0 to 80% in about 35 minutes, but Chinese phone maker Oppo has just announced its own battery-charging technology that blows it away.Announced at Mobile World Congre … | Continue reading
Last November, Activision Blizzard — the publisher behind some of gaming’s biggest brands, like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft — announced that it was getting into mobile gaming in a big way by acquiring Candy Crush maker King Digital Entertainment for a whopping $5.9 billion … | Continue reading
Docker announced a new container control center today it’s calling the Docker Data Center (DDC), an integrated administrative console that has been designed to give large and small businesses control over creating, managing and shipping containers.The DDC is a new tool made up of … | Continue reading
New leadership is coming to the augmented reality startup Skully whose strikingly cool $1,499 AR-1 motorcycle helmet is continuing to ship to early backers. Today, the company officially announced that they have brought Martin Fichter on as COO and Andrew Williams on as VP of Fin … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: StarLeaf, the leading cloud video conferencing and calling provider, announced a new Cloud Endpoint Subscription – a video endpoint registration service exclusively designed for organizations who want to protect current investments... | Continue reading
Following a short invite-only period, accountancy software company FreshBooks has launched its new credit card reader to let merchants accept credit card payments through a smartphone. First announced back in December, the $29 pocket-sized contraption sees FreshBooks go up agains … | Continue reading
Activision Blizzard today announced that it has closed its acquisition of King Digital for $5.9 billion, a deal that it says makes it the largest game network in the world with more than 500 million users. King is the publisher of the popular Candy Crush series of social and mobi … | Continue reading
Team8, the unique Israeli cyber security company that is part venture capitalist, part think tank and part startup incubator announced a $23 Million Series B round today from a variety of investors. Last year’s $18 million Series A round included Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Investments … | Continue reading
The popular Source Engine-based PC first-person shooter series Insurgency is being rebuilt in Unreal Engine 4 and now coming to consoles.Insurgency: Sandstorm is from publisher Focus Home Interactive and developer New World Interactive, and is due out on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbo … | Continue reading
If there's one thing that Sphero's BB-8 droid has proven, it is the extreme adorableness of spherical remote-controlled bots. So when LG announced at Mobile World Congress that its flagship G5 smartphone would have an accompanying Rolling Bot that works much like a Sphero robotic … | Continue reading
BuzzFeed is launching a dedicated video app today to get its visitors easier access to its videos and to help encourage binge watching. Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed’s founder, announced the new app at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It’s available for both iOS and Android today an … | Continue reading
It’s been a while since I paid any serious attention to Samsung devices, but at MWC the company caught my eye. The S7, which was announced on Sunday at the company’s Unpacked event doesn’t look all that different from last year, but it’s making me jealous. Samsung’s embrace of bu … | Continue reading
Fallout 4 1.4 update is now in beta on Steam, and due out proper on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One soon, Bethesda has said.The patch paves the way for the add-on content announced last week, but now adds new features that improve the post-apocalyptic open-world role-playing game' … | Continue reading
Telegram has passed 100 million monthly active users (MAUs), the company announced today. During a keynote at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Pavel Durov, Telegram founder & CEO, took to the stage to reveal the new milestone figure, which represents an increase of 38 mi … | Continue reading
BARCELONA, Spain — If Cyanogen had its way, all those apps cluttering your smartphone would go the way of the dinosaurs. Of course, that’s not going to happen anytime soon. But the Palo Alto-based company has announced a new version of its Android-based operating system called ‘M … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: OpenX, a global leader in creating programmatic advertising marketplaces, today announced the launch of OpenX Bidder for Apps. As an extension of the leading bidder solution for desktop and mobile web, OpenX Bidder for Apps maximizes... | Continue reading
Former Apple CEO John Sculley's new company, Obi Worldphone, has just announced another stylish surprise, the MV1! Dive into the details within! | Continue reading
Nikon is launching a line of compact 4K cameras outfitted with 1-inch sensors, the company announced today. The brand-new DL Series consists of three "premium compact" cameras that all seem aimed at competing with the likes of Sony and its popular RX100 line. The new cameras cont … | Continue reading
Uber may have won over Australian states including New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, but the company is facing a hold out in the far north.On Monday, the government of the Northern Territory announced it would not be making any regulatory changes to allow the … | Continue reading
Last week, we reported that American Airlines filed suit against Gogo, its in-flight Wi-Fi provider, over subpar internet speeds. In the filing, American claimed to have found a better provider, ViaSat, and wanted to nullify its existing agreement with Gogo unless it could match … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced a few changes to the Windows Store. Microsoft says it has improved search rankings for apps and games in the store, and more reviews should be showing up there soon. Reviews from people participating in the Slow ring of the Windows Insider Program, which … | Continue reading
Fitness gadget-maker Fitbit tumbled 16% in after-hours trading, with investors disappointed by the company’s guidance for the current quarter. Fitbit is forecasting $420 million to $440 million in revenue for the current quarter and adjusted earnings per share is expected to be b … | Continue reading
Trade settlement giant DTCC has announced it is to host a blockchain event next month in New York City. | Continue reading
The first of the major 2016 flagship smartphones have been announced - the LG G5 and the Samsung Galaxy S7. Here's how they stack up against the competition. | Continue reading
This year is already shaping up to be the year virtual reality (VR) goes mainstream. In January, Oculus Rift stole the spotlight at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by (finally) announcing a $599 price and late Q1 ship date. HTC and Sony have also confirmed launc … | Continue reading
Facebook is rolling out a way to make wishing "happy birthday" to your friends a little more personal.The company announced a feature on Monday that allows users to record 15-second videos that can be shared to a friend's timeline. You'll also be able to select from various birth … | Continue reading
Halo’s greatest players are fighting for more than just bragging rights. Microsoft announced today that 16 teams from across the globe have earned a spot in the Halo World Championship, which features players competing in Halo 5: Guardians. The event has a prize pool of $2.5 mill … | Continue reading