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Vine Update Introduces Loop Counts So You Know How Great You Are
For the narcissist in all of us, Vine has today introduced Loop Counts, which show the number of times someone has watched your gif play over and over again in their feed.
As many of you well know, Vine lets users share six-second looping videos in an Instagram like feed. Those Vines can be re-vined by other users, commented on, or liked. Read More
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An Upper Limit For Apps? New Data Suggests Consumers Only Use Around Two Dozen Apps Per Month
There are now well over a million mobile applications in both Google Play and the iTunes App Store alike, and growth of those app marketplaces shows no sign of slowing down. However, according to new data from Nielsen out this morning, there may be an upper limit to how many apps people will interact with over the course of a month, and that number – just over a couple dozen –… Read More
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SnapUp Lets You Go Shopping, Track Prices Just By Taking Screenshots On Your iPhone
A new application launching today on the iTunes App Store wants to make mobile shopping – including organizing products you like from multiple stores and receiving price drop notifications – as simple as taking a screenshot on your phone. SnapUp, as the app is called, is able to automatically identify and recognize the products you save as screenshots in your iPhone’s… Read More
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Moven Bags $8M To Take Its Mobile Banking App Overseas
Moven, a startup that aims to make it easier for people to manage their spending by offering money management tools and real-time spending updates in app form, has closed an $8 million Series A funding round, led by SBT Venture Capital. 5-Tiles, The Software Keyboard Targeting Wearables, Picks Up Nokia’s ‘Nav Key’ Inventor As Investor
5-Tiles, another contender taking aim at disrupting the QWERTY with its five key software keyboard, which it hopes will find a home on wearable devices, has picked up ex-Nokia veteran Christian Lindholm as an investor and advisor. UK Plans To Demo Robots In The Wild
The UK’s first official robotics strategy, drawn up with help from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), is calling for the establishment of real-world test sites over the next five+ years where robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) can be rigorously put through their paces to help speed up development. Read More
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Twitter Confirms Acquisition Of Mobile Ad Retargeting Startup TapCommerce
Twitter just announced that it’s acquiring mobile ad startup TapCommerce.HODOR!
Stop. the. presses. Yo, the ridiculously simple messaging app that lets you send a “Yo” to your friends and nothing more, has a new rival. (Or perhaps a more appropriate word would be “parody.”) Introducing Yo, Hodor. As the name implies, this recently launched app offers a different spin on the Yo concept by letting you virtually shout “HODOR!” to your… Read More
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Databricks Snags $33M In Series B And Debuts Cloud Platform For Processing Big Data
Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as a company. There is little doubt that big data is a big deal these days and companies are popping up to help customers process the data. Databricks hopes to simplify the entire matter by moving it… Read More
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Microsoft May Prioritize The Desktop In Windows 9
Microsoft is looking to revamp and retool its Windows 8 operating system with a blend of updates that will see the code better suit the form factors that it wants to service. However, could those updates undo its push to create the Windows Store as a favored place for developers to put applications? Read More
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