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We knew that the Dailybooth team, creators of photo sharing app Batch, moved on to greener pastures at Airbnb. The acquisition was to bolster the mobile apps and presence for Airbnb. What we didn’t know is what the fate of its products would be, but now we do.
Today, the “Batch team” sent out an email to its users informing them that they should download their photos, because the service will… → Read More
Following Monday’s?reveal?of Windows Phone 8, the most recent update to Microsoft’s mobile phone operating system, backend service provider?Urban Airship?is announcing that it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to be the preferred provider for push messaging services on the new platform. → Read More
Breaking into Japan can be tough for foreign companies since it’s culture favors credibility and certainty. So Twilio has just struck an alliance with Japan’s well-respected KDDI telecom who will now sell its cloud communication APIs to developers. It follows in the footsteps of Twilio’s deal with AT&T this month, and could be the model for how Twilio gains local penetration around the world. → Read More
Any.DO, the mobile to do list app backed by $1 million in funding from?Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Blumberg Capital, Genesis Partners and others, is today making good on its promise that it will become something more than your average task list. With the new Gmail integration feature debuting today, you can now turn email threads into actionable items which are automatically synced to… → Read More
Clear, a simple task manager from Realmac software and Impending, has just announced that it will be delivering a Mac version of its client for OS X launching next Thursday for $14.99. The app looks an awful lot like it does on iOS, but offers additional features like the ability to break out different lists in new windows, as well as iCloud syncing with the iOS client. → Read More
You never know when you might have the next Uber, Fab or Airbnb on your hands. Even though those three startups grew up relying on Braintree to power their payments, the Accel-backed company wants make sure it has the next generation of breakout e-commerce companies on its hands. → Read More
Small business mobile payments startup Emu launched its flat-fee dongle-less m-payments service in the U.K. last month. Today the company has announced its opening up to accept card payments in 16 more countries in Europe. Emu had previously offered registrations to European merchants outside the U.K. but with international registrations growing by more than 65 percent per day it’s expanding. → Read More
Maluuba, the Android-based Siri competitor and TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco finalist, just announced that it has partnered with OpenTable and the menu and restaurant hours database Locu. Maluuba is also launching a full version of its app in India, allowing users there to access local information about movies, businesses, restaurants and events. → Read More
The Estonian/U.S. mobile payments company, Fortumo, has a pretty good track record of moving quickly. It was one of the first — if not the first — to give Android developers a way to offer in-app purchasing outside of Google’s own payments system, with the added bonus of carrier billing, sans credit card. An offer that Rovio took up with its ‘Bad Piggy Bank’ Angry Birds upgrade. Today, Fortumo… → Read More
If you think Sandy’s slow, steady passing is a sign of good things to come, think again. It’s going to take days (at the very least) to restore power to many of the 7 million+ people living in darkness, and cell service is expected to get worse before it gets better.
According to the FCC, 25 percent of cell towers in ten states were disrupted or damaged during the Hurricane. Landline outages… → Read More
Apple’s launch of its new mapping service, the ensuing backlash and management shakeup, have been anything but its proudest moments. Adding insult to injury, as Kim-Mai reported two weeks ago, Apple’s pain quickly turned into a gain for other map makers. However, for most, this was only a temporary blip. Only one company was able to sustain increased marketshare: Waze, which saw its share of U.S. → Read More
After more than a decade of helping to manage the friendly skies, it seems that mobile travel assistant WorldMate is coming in for a landing at its final destination as an independent company. Carlson Waglit Travel (CWT), one of the largest travel agencies in the world, has agreed to acquire WorldMate in an all-cash deal, TechCrunch learned today. According to sources with knowledge of the deal… → Read More
Buck, a mobile payments startup previously known as?Billing Revolution, is today heading into a new vertical with the debut of Buck Shops. These shops are e-commerce storefronts whose purchasing experience is powered by Buck’s single-click credit card checkout, announced earlier this year. → Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed December as the launch timeframe for iPhone 5 in China on the investor call last week, and now the smartphone is one step closer to launch; AllThingsD notes that it has received approval from China’s State Radio Management organization, meaning only a network access license remains to be granted before it can be legally sold in the country. → Read More
The Nokia Lumia line of Windows Phone devices have reason to crow today, thanks to a new exclusive release featuring Rovio’s wildly popular Angry Birds. The app, called Angry Birds Roost, was announced back in September and while it doesn’t offer any actual gameplay, it does act as the perfect central hub for the Angry Birds completist. → Read More
VitaPortal, a Russian provider of online and mobile health tools and content aimed at helping people live healthier lifestyles, has closed $2 million in Series A funding, led by Russian investment firm Prostor Capital, and also backed by angel investor Esther Dyson. → Read More
Thanks to MapMyFitness, RunKeeper, Nike and many more, apps that keep track of your exercise and push you to drop those extra pounds are by no means novel. Nonetheless, bootstrapped European startup Runtastic is still managing to carve out a name for itself in a crowded space by offering a simple user experience, while still offering the deeper functionality of higher-end products.
Continuing… → Read More
Mirroring a shift in the rest of the social gaming industry over the past few years, European developer King.com is making a big push onto mobile platforms with the release of its most popular Facebook game Candy Crush Saga on iOS next month.
The new mobile game has a very deep integration with Facebook, featuring cross-platform play where you can take your achievements and virtual currency… → Read More
Which mobile device you use says a lot about your buying habits. That’s why Facebook just began allowing advertisers to select which devices and operating systems their Facebook mobile ads show up on. This lets Android app developers avoid wasting money advertising to iPhone users, and luxury brands can target people with iPads. If Facebook is going to be a mobile ads company. → Read More
Microsoft is sounding very bullish about the Sisyphean challenge facing it in the smartphone space: to transform Windows Phone from an also-ran into a serious, top-three smartphone contender — pointing to lessons learned from the Xbox launch on how to be an underdog and still end up as market leader. It also reckons it has “a huge catalyst” for selling Windows Phones — in the form of Windows 8. → Read More
The big emphasis during Disney’s conference call discussing its acquisition of Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion was, not surprisingly, the enormous earnings potential of the Star Wars franchise. And that includes gaming ― so one of the analysts on the call asked for more details about Disney’s interactive strategy.
CEO Bob Iger responded that the company is “likely to focus more on social and… → Read More
Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color and Tablet are capable and affordable media tablets, but they run an old and locked-down version of Android. If you are fairly technical, you can obviously use CyanogenMod to bypass B&N’s firmware and install a new version of Android on your device. If you’re not that technical, though, the easiest way to get Jelly Bean on your Nook tablet is to buy one of the… → Read More
Google first announced its plans to bring enhanced voice search to iOS back in August, and now the company has finally made good on its word ― an update to the Google Search iOS app has just gone live for all you search aficionados to tinker with. → Read More
Here’s to iteration. When Justin Kan first launched Exec, a service for getting errands done on demand, I was one of the first beta testers. We had a housecleaning and it took, well, six hours. Even though the Exec that came over had a fantastic attitude, it was clear that the startup had many kinks to iron out.
A couple months later, Exec has launched a dedicated cleaning service. Kan saw that… → Read More
Hurricane Sandy has clearly taken its toll on the East Coast. At least 7.4 million homes and businesses are without power this morning across seven states. Public transit has been shut down in New York City, along with the Nasdaq and NYSE. Frankenstorm has truly been unprecedented, and so, unprecedented changes are to follow in the tech world.
For example, the top three apps in the Apple App… → Read More
Microsoft has released the Windows Phone 8 SDK for the Build developer conference, now taking place on the Redmond campus. The SDK is described as an environment “for building apps and games for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.5.” That’s pretty obvious but why 7.5? That’s the odd thing here. It has a stand-alone Visual Studio Express 2012 edition. It can also work as an… → Read More
Last year, Abinash Tripathy and Baishampayan Ghose founded Helpshift to address what they perceived to be a significantly underserved market in customer service: Mobile. After months of testing their mobile solution, the startup is getting ready to pull the curtains back on its business and, to do that, it is today announcing that it has closed a $3.2 million round of seed financing, led by True… → Read More
Last night Hurricane Sandy rocked the East coast in a way it’s never been rocked before. And despite the fact that our mobile carriers did everything conceivable to prepare for and mitigate the damage, many people experienced voice and data outages throughout last night and on into today.
We’ve received word from the nation’s four major carriers on the extent of the service outages and issues. → Read More
Senzari, the Miami-based streaming music startup offering an alternative to Pandora in both stateside and international markets, is today announcing it has acquired Berlin-based wahwah.fm. Founded in 2010 by Philipp Eibach, wahwah.fm is a location-based music app for iPhone that previously allowed users to broadcast their own personalized radio stations, which nearby folks using the app could pick… → Read More
Despite a storm in the North East that started out as a sheepish school girl and ended up in leather pants with a cigarette (you know, Sandy), Google still managed to pull off their big announcement yesterday. We officially met the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10, as Google refreshed the Nexus 7 with 3G. → Read More
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