Why Uber Spent a Year Trying to Make Its App Faster to Use
Open up the newly redesigned Uber app, and you’re greeted with a straightforward question. “Where to?” It’s a simple query, but one that used to take a few clicks — and ...
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Microsoft Removes All Third Party Snapchat Apps From The Windows Phone...
Snapchat confirmed in November that it would crack down on all third party apps, and now the ax has fallen on the Windows Phone app store, which no longer contains any third party apps as Windows Cen...
What App Do You Use Most to Kill Time?
The single greatest way smartphones have enhanced my life over the past decade is that I always have something to do. Whether stuck at the doctor’s office for hours, waiting for a train that...
Average WhatsApp User Sends More Than 1,200 Messages Each Month
Ever since Facebook announced that it will acquire popular social messaging app WhatsApp, there has been a lot of buzz about its impressive user base. The app, which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said...
Confide is like Snapchat for business, but without pictures
The written word has a nasty habit of sticking around, surfacing in hacked email accounts, accidental forwards and the on untrustworthy lips of your peers. That’s why former AOL executive Jon B...
Google search on Android now finds results within apps
As much as Google’s search business revolves around the web, the company knows that mobile apps sometimes have more relevant info. Accordingly, Google has updated Android’s native search ...
Kim Dotcom’s Mega cloud storage service gets an official iPhone ...
Now that Kim Dotcom’s cloud storage service Mega is available to the public, it’s finally found time to launch the iOS app it’s been promising. The new app includes many of the same...
YouTube app teardown hints at ad-free Music Pass service with offline ...
Rumors of a YouTube-based music service just got some credibility thanks to an Android Police teardown of the Android app’s most recent code. The site has found references to a Music Pass that ...
Tumblr Android app adds auto-playing GIFs, photosets and landscape vie...
Tumblr and animated GIFs are practically inseparable at this point, so we’re happy to report that the microblogging platform’s latest Android app update enhances that marriage. The next t...
6Wunderkinder, Maker Of To-Do App Wunderlist, Has Raised A $30M Series...
Wunderlist, a popular task management app from Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder, has built up a loyal following of some six million users, with about one-third of them in the U.S. and nearly 241 million “t...