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
That didn’t take long. Telegram launched just two and a half years ago and is today announcing at Mobile World Congress 2016 it has 100,000,000 monthly active users. Shortly after launching, the messaging app claimed it had 100,000 users communicating on its encrypted platform an … | Continue reading
Apples ansonsten so strenge Software-Kontrolle ist ein peinlicher Fehler unterlaufen. App Store für iOS war über drei Monaten lang eine trojanische App verfügbar: 开心日常英语 ("Fröhliches Englisch jeden Tag"), ein als Sprachlern-App... | Continue reading
Dribble, the London startup founded by Nicholas Wright, Daniel Qu (whom I’m told met at TechCrunch Disrupt) and Rupert Brenninkmeijer, kicks off today with the launch of a daily fantasy app for soccer. Read More | Continue reading
USMobile is launching its Scrambl3 encryption app for iPhones and Android smartphones today. The app enables users to make secure calls or send secure messages without worrying about eavesdropping, according to USMobile, which includes people who worked with the National Security … | 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
Microsoft is giving up on Skype Qik, the video chat app it launched just 18 months ago, because its features are already available in the full-fledged Skype app. In a post on the Skype official blog, the company confirmed that March 24th would be the last day Skype Qik would be a … | Continue reading
Nearly two-thirds of US internet users don’t know if their favorite fashion retailer offers a mobile app, according to December 2015 research. | Continue reading
It's 6 p.m. and you are still on the train headed home. You can't bear another night of greasy restaurant takeout, and there is no way you are cooking for yourself. What you want is a home-cooked meal. Gigamunch is an app that promises, if funded, to deliver just that. SEE ALSO: … | 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
EXCLUSIVE: App monetization and distribution platform Appnext grew its revenues by 345 percent in 2015. The London-based company now serves 12 billion app recommendations to 380 million unique users in 180 countries. Sure, it grew off a small base in 2014. But the growth rate is … | Continue reading
Facebook's plan to turn the News Feed into a personalized video channel faces a roadblock in the form of "happy birthday" messages, which until today have almost entirely taken the ancient form of text. Lol! That begins to change today with the launch of birthday video cam, a fea … | Continue reading
Skype is announcing that on March 24, its Qik video messaging service will be shuttered. But dry your tears, the company was also quick to point out that most of the app’s features were already integrated into the core functionality of Skype. You may remember Qik as a standalone … | Continue reading
After 2 Teardowns of SaaS homepages (Close.io and Contactually) and their marketing, I wanted to share a checklist for SaaS homepages. What’s the purpose of your SaaS homepage? Front App says that “SaaS products have in common the fact that they must convince potential customers … | Continue reading
Skype Qik, Microsoft’s attempt at spinning off video messaging into a simplified mobile application, is shutting down. The app was first introduced in fall 2014 to serve a different audience than the larger, more fully-featured, Skype application. Instead of offering real-time ch … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced that it will be shutting down Skype Qik on March 24, meaning that you’ll no longer be able to send or receive messages in the video chat application. However, the company said that you should worry because many of the features from Skype Qik have been alre … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced updates to its free Windows App Studio Beta web service for building Windows apps. “One of the major themes that we’ve been focusing on lately is providing great solutions for small businesses, creatives, and content producers that want to showcase their … | Continue reading
One of the better features to emerge in iOS 9 is support for picture-in-picture mode on the iPad. But when you’re trying to surf the web while watching Netflix on your Mac, it’s not as easy to do – you often end up moving separate windows around on the screen, or switching back a … | Continue reading
Anyone can now make Snapchat a more official part of their special events.The company is rolling out a new "on-demand" geofilter that allows people and businesses to pay for custom filters, which will temporarily appear within the app. Though Snapchat has offered sponsored geofil … | Continue reading
One could make a pretty strong argument that Michonne is the most bad ass character in The Walking Dead (actually, there's plenty of bad asses, but she's my favorite) which has got me extra-stoked that Telltale is on the verge of releasing an entirely new Walking Dead game featur … | Continue reading
Morgan Freeman is lending his voice to popular GPS driving app Waze, meaning those in the U.S. can be given directions by the soothing, dulcet tones of the legendary Hollywood actor. Freeman joins other big-name stars who have added their voice to the navigation app in the past, … | Continue reading
Lightroom for Android is getting a big update today that adds in features like split toning and haze removal that were added to iOS last year. The real purpose of this update is bringing Lightroom's Android app up to date with its iOS app — Adobe say that for the most part, every … | Continue reading
Volvo will natively integrate Spotify into its cars, beginning with the XC90, S90, and V90 this spring, the Swedish automaker announced during Mobile World Congress. Volvo says it worked closely with the streaming service to build the app, which includes handwriting recognition, … | Continue reading
This post was brought to you by FlashChat.Everyone knows why company group chats are great. Here are TNW we love our Slack channels. General announcements, LOL and discussing the ever-important “Who’s making drinks this Friday?” convos. But sometimes, you want an app that allows … | Continue reading
According to a recent report from TechCrunch, Facebook plans to start placing ads inside Messenger within the next few months. How will users respond? | Continue reading
Mobileum Technologies: Barcelona, Spanien (ots/PRNewswire) - Die App Rovng von Mobileum generiert ein margenstarkes Einkommen aus Reisen für Mobilfunkbetreiber durch Nutzung ihrer Roaming-Daten für die Nutzbarmachung eines Ökosystems von Reisedienstanbietern im Wert von ... | Continue reading
While the long-term benefits of Snapchat Discover are yet to be determined, there’s no shortage of brands and publishers keen to try it out. However, Snapchat is very picky about who gets access. Slinger is an app (currently iOS only) that wants to be the ‘YouTube for vertical vi … | Continue reading
Helsinki-based Lifeline Ventures launched a new 57 million euro ($63 million) fund to invest in startups.Founded in 2009, Lifeline Ventures has set up three funds and invested in 55 early stage startups with a number of successes.“We’ve had exits to King.com (NonstopGames), Faceb … | Continue reading
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Cyanogen launched a new mod platform for its Android devices that might give it a major advantage over every other device out there. Cyanogen says that a mod is more than an app, as it can deeply integrate with the phone in ways that G … | Continue reading
Typically, mobile apps are stand-alone experiences that play nicely with the operating system but aren’t fully integrated in it. Cyanogen — the company best known for its Android-based Cyanogen OS — is launching MOD today, a new developer platform that will give app developers th … | Continue reading
I got the app Sketch Club and have really enjoyed making some fun drawings! | Continue reading
With the U.S government declaring all hoverboards unsafe and tensions mounting between the FBI and Apple, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.See also: U.S. government declares hoverboards unsafeEach weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and updated app … | Continue reading
Samsung has announced a new dual sensor-equipped circular camera at Mobile World Congress that allows users to capture still images or videos in full 360-degrees. It achieves this by pairing dual 15-megapixel sensors (front and back) with a mobile app that automatically stitches … | Continue reading
EquiPay, a bill-splitting app that accounts for racial and gender income inequalities, is on its way to becoming a reality, after starting as a joke at Cultivated Wit’s Comedy Hack Day. With EquiPay, the idea is “reparations, one meal at a time,” so instead of splitting meals equ … | Continue reading
Perhaps the best piece of evidence that a given marketing technology has reached maturity and broad-based consumer acceptance lies in its ability to drive conversion actions at every stage of the buying cycle. According to Criteo’s Q4 2015 State of Mobile Commerce report, mobile … | Continue reading
Volvo will schon bald komplett schlüssellose Autos verkaufen. Ab 2017 sollen die Kunden mithilfe einer Smartphone-App und Bluetooth sowohl die Autotüren öffnen und schließen als auch den Motor starten können. Die App kann... | Continue reading
Developer John Kooistra and his studio Cat in a Box Games go way, way back to the earliest days of the App Store. His debut title Blue Defense! [$0.99] reminds me of how fun those early days were, when quirky new experiences were dropping all the time taking advantage of the nove … | Continue reading
TouchMint's latest in their Adventure to Fate series hits the App Store on March 3rd, with Quest to the Future (formerly Future Apocalypse) releasing for $2.99 without in-app purchases. The game has you traveling through time to portals that can help save the world, playing as se … | Continue reading
tl;dr: It looks like Facebook is getting the textbook results of ignoring code quality.Update: More examples, and insights from ex-employees in the reddit discussionFacebook has a software quality problem. I’m going to try to convince you with three examples. This is important be … | Continue reading
I've been using the sleep tracking app SleepBot for more than 2 years. It was a great app and it had always served me well. Recently, however, I noticed that the app isn't maintained anymore. This means it's just a question of time until the app stops working. In order to be safe … | Continue reading
Ben and James briefly discuss ad-blockers, then admit it’s an academic debate and move on to the business of advertising and the far more profound shifts that are caused on the Internet and by new places on the Internet. Note: This podcast references Marco Arment’s Peace applicat … | Continue reading
I wrote a post a few months ago about sharing data between iOS apps and app extensions in which I recommended using NSFileCoordinator and NSFilePresenter. But I had to update the post to remove that portion when some helpful people pointed me to Apple Tech Note 2408 | Continue reading
In this week’s episode, Ben finally has an Apple Watch: James has lots of questions about it. (And yes, we should have talked about Google Now.) Links Horace Dediu: The Battle for The Wrist — Asymco Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Great News – Stratechery … | Continue reading
If you have ever received a notification text from an app on your smartphone, there is a decent chance it was powered by Twilio. The San Francisco-based cloud communications company, ...The post Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson Q&A: ‘We’re Trying to Make Communication Less Dumb’ appeared f … | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss the recent App Store controversy and how a person – or company’s – greatest strength is also their greatest weakness. Plus a special 2nd recording about the Harvard business school professor and the Chinese restaurant. Links Cabel Sasser: Transmit iOS 1.1.1 … | Continue reading
TRANSLATIONS: 中文 (UI.cn) | 中文 (CSDN) | 한국어 | ру́сский язы́к This summer, I packed up all my things and moved from San Francisco to Guangzhou, China for work. Through an unlikely chain of coincidences that I don’t entirely recall, I’ve become a product manager on WeChat, a popular … | Continue reading
Since iOS app extensions run as part of a host application rather than as part of their containing app (i.e. your app’s extensions run in somebody else’s app), data sharing isn’t automatic. Finding standard locations like the documents directory doesn’t work for shared data. In t … | Continue reading
We can't even remember the last time we saw someone under 30 fire up a PowerPoint instead of a Prezi when giving a talk. Microsoft hopes to put the kibosh on that with Microsoft Sway, its new presentation app. Sway lets you drag and drop photos, videos, files from your computer, … | Continue reading