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With A Media-Rich Platform To Stand Out From The Messaging Pack, MessageMe Hits 5M Users In 2.5 Months
Last week we reported that MessageMe, one of the latest messaging apps to hit the smartphone market, had picked up a $10 million Series A round of funding, and today, the company is officially confirming the news, along with some more details on how it’s been doing in the 2.5 months since it launched. It now has 5 million users across both iOS ...Keep reading
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The Kids Love Twitter; Facebook, Not So Much
As far as social networks go, recent popular opinion suggests Facebook, for all its reach and power, just ain’t cool anymore. Most of those claims have been anecdotal. The most prevalent voice came from Josh Miller — co-founder of competing social startup Branch — whose argument hinged mostly around the behavioral habits of his teenage sister. ...
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Putting the power of Unity in the hands of every mobile developer
Our simply big idea has always been to make game development accessible to more people with better tools. To help developers fulfil their creative vision and build their businesses. Simple to say, hard to do! Unity’s a restless company, and we’re continuously challenging ourselves to make the many complex decisions that it takes to push Unity f...
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Unity makes its Android and iOS video game development tools free to small and independent studios
Unity Technologies, the company behind the Unity cross-platform video game engine and development software, announced today that its mobile tools are now free for small and independent studios. The Unity engine has been free to emerging developers since 2009, but it only supported deployment on PC, Mac and the Web. To release a video game on An...
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Twitter granted patent on pull-to-refresh, promises to only use it defensively
Twitter was just officially granted a patent on the ubiquitous pull-to-refresh gesture — a touch interface concept the company acquired when it purchased Tweetie developer Atebits in 2010 and hired founder Loren Brichter, who invented the move. "I had started working on the patent two months before the Twitter deal," said Brichter dur...
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New U.K. Edtech Entity To Spend Up To $77M Acquiring European E-Learning Firms Over Next 18 Months To Build Regional Giant
Expect a swathe of consolidation in the European e-learning sector in the coming months. Edxus Group, a new London-based corporate operating edtech company, is planning to plough in €50-60 million ($64-$77 million) over the next 18 months to develop and acquire European e-learning businesses and build out a single regional player with the scale...
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Google planning to bring Chrome app launcher to OS X
Clues that Google is planning to bring elements of Chrome OS to its browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux have been popping up periodically throughout the last few months, with the latest evidence being a Chrome OS web app launcher built into the new build of Chromium. According to a Google+ post from engineer François Beaufort, Google is working...
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New Xbox Fails To Excite Investors As Microsoft, AMD Stocks Stays Flat While Sony Shoots Up 9%
Wall Street apparently wanted something more revolutionary out of the Xbox One that launched today, as Microsoft’s stock is down 0.66 percent. In turn, investors on news of a potential spin off, pushed Sony shares up 9 percent, coincidentally just after Microsoft announced its answer to the Sony Playstation. Microsoft’s debut of the Xbox One to...
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Flickr, Vimeo integration likely to bolster social ties in iOS 7
In the upcoming overhaul of its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system, iOS 7, Apple plans to include an increased presence of third-party social networks, including Flickr and Vimeo, according to a person familiar with the software. Since the new software is yet to be even officially announced, there is a very real possibility that any f...
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The Internet of Things: In action
By 2015, six billion objects in the world will be connected to the internet. While it may seem tricky to grasp as a concept, the internet of things is nothing simpler, and more stunning, than objects being connected to the internet. At its most mind-blowing, these objects are learning and adapting to the behaviour of the user. The internet has w...
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mighty and napoleon are as important as google glass
Last week, Adobe unveiled a smart stylus (codename Mighty) and a diminutive digital ruler (Napoleon). If you're interested in the future of interaction — if you've been paying attention to Google Glass, for example — you should be thinking about what Mighty and Napoleon have the potential to become. Glass and Mighty/Napoleon aren't products, ye...
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Why Working At Apple Isn’t Your Career Peak
For his book The Apple Revolution, Luke Dormehl spoke to dozens of former Apple employees. I sat down with Dormehl to talk to him about what he learned--and found that the pinnacle of many former employees’ careers wasn't in what they did at the company, but what they went on to do after. Tell me about some of the people you got the chance to s...
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With $2.5 million in new funding, PingMD wants to help doctors manage incoming calls
SUMMARY: As doctors prepare for an influx of new patients, PingMD, a newly-relaunched mobile app, wants to help doctors more efficiently communicate with patients and peers. If you’ve ever tried to call your doctor with an impromptu medical question, you know that a single call can quickly turn into non-stop game of phone tag that may or may not...
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Behind The Scenes Of The Big Google Maps Redesign And Its Technical Challenges
Google unveiled its completely redesigned Google Maps product on the web at I/O 2013, and at a panel dedicated to the new Maps experience, Maps User Experience Design Lead Jonah Jones and Engineering Director for Maps on the web Yatin Chawathe took us through what went into creating Maps and the engineering effort behind the considerable change...
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Wi-Fi Network Breaks Speed Record
Think your network is fast? Getting a gigabyte-sized movie over your local wireless network to your hard drive in a few seconds is old hat. Now there’s a network that can push a 2-hour, high-definition movie to a computer a mile away in less time than it takes to read a single word. At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, a new rec...
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The Cold War for Eyeballs
When banner ads were invented, they helped make our open and free web commercially viable, and helped it grow. Call it an alliance of necessity. It could never last. Like the Cold War, there was too much ideological conflict between capitalism and common ownership. Advertising is about keeping your viewers on your channel, but the web is meant ...
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How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service
Google's long-rumored Play Music All Access service is already out the door, while Apple's iRadio is still bogged down in licensing talks. According to music industry sources, all the haggling could prevent Apple from debuting the service at the Worldwide Developers Conference next month. Sony/ATV, the largest music publisher, has rejected Appl...
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WebRTC is growing fast: soon to surpass one billion devices
SUMMARY: Plugin-free video chat in the browser is becoming a reality quickly: Developers can soon reach more than one billion browsers and devices with the protocol, according to Google’s Justin Uberti. WebRTC, the new technology that enables plugin-free voice and video chat within the browser, should be available on more than one billion uniqu...
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Venture Firm InCube Builds a Crowdfunding Site of its Own
In what may be an industry first (in finance) venture firm InCube Ventures has unveiled a crowdfunding site of its own dubbed VentureHealth. The new platform will differentiate itself from “rewards-based” crowdfunding sites likeKickstarter, or sites that help consumer technology startups raise seed money, likeAngelList, Microventures or Crowdfu...
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How Facebook Has Changed Since Going Public 1 Year Ago
"Facebook was not originally created to be a company," CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his SEC Registration letter a little more than three months before Facebook went public on May 18, 2012. "It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected." In the year since the Facebook IPO, some thing...
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In a Bad Mood? New Expereal App Can Tell You Why
How was your day yesterday? It’s not a hard question, but chances are you’re going to give the wrong answer. That’s the thinking behind a new app, Expereal, which aims to measure and track our daily emotions. The app, available on iOS, was released November 2012. What’s the Deal? Expereal’s creator Jonathan Cohen was inspired by the work o...
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Yahoo Deal Shows Power Shift
Yahoo Inc. YHOO has agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, a six-year-old company with more than 100 million users but very little revenue, a deal that highlights the shifting balance of power in the technology business. Veterans like Yahoo have shown they have staying power—and they have cash to spend. But companies like Yahoo's target, a bl...
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9158, The One YY Music Modeled, Plans IPO in U.S.
9158 is recognized as the creator of YY Music model, an online music performance platform that makes revenues from virtual item sales. It has been well-known in the circle of tech startups, less known to the public though, in terms of monetization. The site made 600 million yuan ($95mn) in revenue in 2011 and over one billion yuan ($159mn) in 20...
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Google Has Already Removed 8.8M Lines Of WebKit Code From Blink
Google’s decision to fork WebKit and launch its own Blink rendering engine came as a surprise when the company made the announcement just over a month ago. Yesterday at the Google I/Odeveloper conference, the Blink team provided an update about the state of the engine. As Alex Komoroske, a product manager on Chrome’s Open Web Platform told the ...
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Skift seals a $1.1m seed round led by Lerer Ventures to grow its travel intelligence and news platform
Skift has raised a healthy $1.1 million seed round, as the travel intelligence and news startup looks to take on new hires and develop its myriad of tools and services. The brainchild of PaidContent founder Rafat Ali, Skift officially launchedlast July offering a mix of news, insight, data and other tools to those with a (vested) interest in th...
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New Apps Arrive on Google Glass
Google Glass, the company’s Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and reminder notes from Evernote. Google announced the apps, which it calls Glassware, Thursday at its I/O developers conference, the largest assembly yet ...
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Google and NASA Launch Quantum Computing AI Lab
Quantum computing took a giant leap forward on the world stage today as NASA and Google, in partnership with a consortium of universities, launched an initiative to investigate how the technology might lead to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. The new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab will employ what may be the most advanced commerci...
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Video Distribution Platform Brightcove Announces A Streaming Module For Live Events
I scream, you scream, we all scream for live streaming online and mobile video. Live is becoming not just an oughta-have, but a must-have, as video distributors seek to reach an audience that isn’t content to watch reruns on-demand. For sports and live competitions in particular, live is becoming ever more important — and content companies are ...
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Apple seeks techies, designers to revive iWork office suite Would YOU enter the walled garden?
Apple looks set to refresh its answer to Microsoft's office: the neglected iWork software suite, which hasn't received a significant update since 2009. Listings on its jobs page, some of which date back a few months, the fruity firm says it is looking for nine people to help develop the office software collection. Could this be a response to Bi...
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Enterprise Mobility, BYOD Startup AirWatch Adds $25M From Accel To Take Its Series A Total To $225M, As It Preps For Acquisitions
AirWatch, the startup that helps businesses manage security and more on employees’ mobile devices, is today announcing that it has raised another $25 million, led by Accel with participation also from Insight Venture Partners. The funds come as part of an expanded Series A round, originally for $200 million, which the company announced with a s...
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