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Article | 22/04/2013 Tumblr ads go mobile
Animated GIFs, journal entries, cat photos, and now, more ads. Tumblr, in an effort to further boost its revenue, is rolling out ads into users' mobil...
Article | 22/04/2013 Facebook Home surpasses 500,000 installs, gets lots of one-star reviews
In just 10 days, Facebook Home has just surpassed a half-million installations on Google Play. As a point of comparison, that's only slightly less tha...
Article | 22/04/2013 Unity readies cross platform game development tool for BlackBerry 10 with open beta test
Unity Technologies will soon extend its cross-platform game development tools with an open beta trial targeting the BlackBerry 10 OS. It is inviting d...
Article | 19/04/2013 Yahoo slims down, again, trashing Deals, SMS Alerts
Yahoo is giving itself a bit of a makeover. Earlier last week it launched two new mobile apps for email and weather; now it's ditching numerous longst...
Article | 19/04/2013 Larry Page defends Google's 'big bets' on Glass, driver-less cars
Google's core product may always be search, but the company is just as serious about providing in-the-moment information to users with emerging techno...
Article | 18/04/2013 Yahoo launches new weather, email apps in its 'second sprint' of rebuilding
Yahoo has released two new mobile apps, for weather and email, suggesting the company may be on track toward delivering on its promise of offering use...
Article | 17/04/2013 Payleven launches person-to-person card payments in Europe
Germany-based card payments startup Payleven is going to make its chip-and-PIN service available to individuals, the company said on Wednesday.
Article | 17/04/2013 Amazon's Android Appstore to become available in 200 more countries
Amazon.com is continuing the global expansion of its Appstore by announcing that developers can submit their apps for sale in another 200 countries ar...
Article | 17/04/2013 Mobile a top priority for Yahoo in 2013, Mayer says
Yahoo wants to accelerate its development of mobile products geared toward delivery of personalized content, CEO Marissa Mayer said Tuesday, as the co...
Article | 16/04/2013 Facebook readies iOS app update featuring 'Chat Heads' messaging
Chat Heads, the buzzy messaging feature released as part of Facebook's Home software for Android-based smartphones, is now coming to the iPhone and iP...
Article | 16/04/2013 Xamarin hopes to simplify mobile app testing with new service
Xamarin has announced Test Cloud, an automated service that lets mobile developers test their apps on hundreds of mobile devices.
Article | 15/04/2013 Find My Mac both useful and frustrating for law enforcement
Find My Mac can be used to show the location of a stolen Mac, but the service often does not provide enough evidence to obtain a search warrant and ge...
Article | 12/04/2013 Uber to take on Lyft, Sidecar with ridesharing service
Lyft and Sidecar may be the kings of ridesharing right now, but Uber is coming up in the rearview mirror.
Article | 12/04/2013 UK investigates unfair trade in children's game apps
The U.K. Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched an investigation into free children's game apps to explore whether these games are misleading, comm...
Article | 12/04/2013 Intel sets up joint lab with China's Baidu for mobile apps
Intel is hoping to get more Chinese developers to back its products by forming a new joint innovation lab with the nation's largest search engine Baid...