In a carefully framed deal, ServiceNow announced this morning that it has acquired the intellectual property and key personnel of mobile analytics company Appsee for… Read More »ServiceNow acqui-hires mobile analytics startup Appsee
Indian video streaming giant Hotstar, owned by Disney, today set a new global benchmark for the number of people an OTT service can draw to… Read More »Hotstar, Disney’s Indian streaming service, sets new global record for live viewership
Happy Blockchain Week to you and yours. HTC helped kick off this important national holiday by announcing the upcoming release of the HTC Exodus 1s.… Read More »HTC introduces a cheaper blockchain phone, opens Zion Vault SDK
Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers and robocallers, will soon allow users in India, its largest market, to borrow up to a few… Read More »India’s most popular services are becoming super apps
Facebook might have another Cambridge Analytica on its hands. In a late Friday news dump, Facebook revealed that today it filed a lawsuit alleging South… Read More »Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse
More dismal news from the smartphone number crunchers. New figures out of Canalys put the North American smartphone market at five-year low for the first… Read More »Smartphone shipments hit a five-year low in North America
Instagram isn’t just pretty pictures. It now also harbors bullying, misinformation, and controversial self-expression content. So today Instagram is announcing a bevvy up safety updates… Read More »Instagram will let you appeal post takedowns
Samsung has been understandably silent about the Galaxy Fold for the last couple of weeks. The company’s been reassessing issues with the foldable’s display after… Read More »Samsung’s CEO says Galaxy Fold launch news is arriving soon
Announced yesterday at Google’s opening I/O keynote, the Pixel 3a arrives at a tenuous time for the smartphone industry. Sales figures have stagnated for most… Read More »What Pixel 3a tells us about the state of the smartphone — and Google
There’s a new teen app sensation. Anonymous question-asking app YOLO has rocketed to the #1 US app position just a week after launching thanks to… Read More »#1 app YOLO Q&A is the Snapchat platform’s 1st hit
Two years ago, Apple changed the way its app store ratings worked by allowing developers to decide whether or not their ratings would be reset… Read More »Google Play is changing how app ratings work
Mark Zuckerberg: “The future is private”. Sundar Pichai: ~The present is private~. While both CEO’s made protecting user data a central theme of their conference… Read More »Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it
A set of new features for Android could alleviate some of the difficulties of living with hearing impairment and other conditions. Live transcription, captioning, and… Read More »Live transcription and captioning in Android are a boon to the hearing-impaired
Last year at Google I/O, Google introduced a host of new digital wellbeing tools aimed at helping people better manage their screen time, track app… Read More »Google expands digital wellbeing tools to include a new ‘Focus mode,’ adds improved parental controls to Android
If you’re going to go carrier exclusive, Verizon (disclosure: our parent company’s parent company) is probably about as good as any. Ultimately, however, exclusives invariably… Read More »Google’s Pixel 3 and 3a are coming to more carriers, including Sprint and T-Mobile