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Twitter Acquires CardSpring To Power In-Tweet Commerce And Offers
Twitter just announced it’s acquired CardSpring to enable “in-the-moment commerce experiences.” CardSpring is an application platform that lets developers build card-linked offers electronic coupons, loyalty cards, and virtual currencies that work with credit cards and other types of payments. Twitter will keep the service open. CardSpring writes “At Twitter, we… Read More
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Microsoft Is Closing Its Entertainment Studios, But Narrow Focus Is Likely Better For Xbox
Microsoft let the ax begin to fall today, announcing 18,000 in job cuts to come over the course of the next year, a move Wall Street has so far applauded. A big part of that is going to be ex-Nokia staff, but Microsoft is also shuttering its nascent Xbox Entertainment Studios, according to an email memo unearthed by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley. The email talks about how Xbox Entertainment… Read More
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Facebook Tests Buy Button To Let You Purchase Stuff Without Leaving Facebook
Facebook is trying out letting you pay for ecommerce purchases from other businesses without leaving its site or app. For now it won’t be charging the few small and medium-sized businesses in the US to test this new Buy button on their News Feed Pages posts and ads. When I asked if Facebook would be charging businesses for the feature eventually, it said “it was not disqualifying… Read More
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Appcelerator Makes Its Platform More Flexible With Native SDK Support, API Builder And Updated Analytics
The mobile technology company Appcelerator has been around since 2006, and chances are that if you know about it, you mostly think of it as the company behind Titanium, its open-source mobile development environment. In the enterprise world, however, the company has also made a name for itself with its Appcelerator Platform, which is meant to help large companies build apps and mobilize… Read More
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New Steady App From Stupeflix Shoots Video With Cinematic Stabilization
Last year Instagram made its first acquisition, buying Y Combinator company Luma which had come up with an app which could stabilize normally shaky video. It needed this stabilisation technology for obvious photographic reasons, leaving the way open for a new company to take its place. Steady is a new app from long-time online video startup Stupeflix, which has slowly but surely been building up… Read More
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The GoTenna Will Let You Communicate Without Any Connectivity
By this point, most of us are fully addicted to our smartphones. And when we find ourselves without Wifi or data service, our most direct connection to everything becomes almost useless. That’s where GoTenna comes in.
The device is launching into pre-order today, and lets users create their own closed network on which they can communicate. Read More
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Microsoft Also Axing Nokia’s Entry Level Mobiles
It’s not just Nokia’s Android line of devices that are for the chop: Microsoft plans to ramp down production of Nokia devices running the legacy Series 40 platform too, so no more Asha or basic Nokia mobiles either. Sad-Sung
When we last left Samsung, the company saw sales falling 9 percent and revenue falling by 24 percent. Now a survey by Counterpoint shows that consumers are more interested in picking up last season’s iPhone 5s than the new S5. Singular, Founded By Ex-Onavo Execs, Raises $5M For Its Cross-Platform Mobile Marketing Dashboard
The rapid growth in the world of apps — Google Play and Apple‘s App Store have over one million apps each – has given rise to a vast number of ways that developers are trying to get their own apps to stand apart from the crowd. Now a new startup wants to help developers manage and analyse the success of those disparate marketing channels.
Singular, a cross-channel… Read More
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Microsoft Details Coming Hardware Shakeup Including Changes To Its Design And Manufacturing Assets
In the wake of Microsoft‘s announcement that it will lay off up to 18,000 employees over the next year, and that the Nokia X Android handset will eventually run Windows Phone, Microsoft’s hardware head Stephen Elop announced a number of operational changes in a public memo. The alterations include changes in manufacturing and design efforts, and, of course, job cuts. Noting… Read More
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