Facebook Announces News Reader App ‘Paper’
Well that didn’t take long. Just 24 hours after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised more standalone apps in 2014, the company announced Paper on Thursday, a standalone news reader mobile app ...
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Instagram vs. Snapchat: How the Photo-Sharing Apps Stack Up
Instagram on Thursday announced a new messaging feature, called Instagram Direct, that adds a more private element to the photo-sharing app. With this new feature, will Instagram now go head to head ...
Homeless ‘Journeyman Hacker’ Launches Eco-Friendly Mobile ...
Leo Grand, by his own admission, didn’t know the first thing about computer programming four months ago. The 37-year-old man was living on the streets of New York City in late August, when a co...
Vine Rolls Out ‘Time Travel’ Editing
Vine, Twitter’s six-second video recording app, introduced a few new additions to its popular app on Thursday, allowing users to finally edit and save posts before sharing. A new tool called &#...
The 10 Fastest Growing Apps This Year
Vine saw 403% growth between Q1 and Q3 this year, making it the world’s fastest growing app. Twitter relaunched Vine in January, explaining its exponential growth. Following Vine for fastest gr...
Chromecast App Shows Up Outside U.S., Suggesting International Launch
Google’s popular Chromecast device may not be available outside of the United States just yet, but it looks like the accompanying Android app can now be downloaded by international users. Tech ...
BitLock Lets You Unlock Your Bike With a Smartphone
After a long day at work, the last thing you want to do is fumble to unlock your bike before commuting home. The BitLock makes unlocking much easier and faster by turning your smartphone into a virtu...
Snapchat has passed ‘about a dozen’ unopened messages to l...
Think those unopened self-destructing Snaps disappear forever unseen, too? Guess again. After detailing the timeline for how and when user messages are deleted in the spring, Snapchat says that it ha...
Fitbit Force Lights Up Your Wrist Like a Watch
The Fitbit Force, the fourth wireless activity and sleep wristband in the Fitbit lineup, debuted on Thursday with an extra something special never before been seen on its predecessors and competitors...
92% of Smartphone Owners Use a Google App
Whether it’s Google Chrome, Google Maps, Google Now or even Google+, a full 92% of smartphone users employ at least one Google mobile product. Statista created the chart below showing the popul...