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Entitle Brings Its Subscription E-Books To E-Ink Readers, Including The Nook
When e-book service Entitle launched last December, one of the main selling points was the idea that subscribers truly own their books. Now the company says it has given users even more control by allowing them to transfer books to their Nook, Kobo, or Sony Reader. Until now, it seems that subscription e-book services have focused on the big app ecosystems (namely, iOS and Android) and on… Read More -
UberRUSH Raises Three Critical Questions For The Future Of Mobile On-Demand Services
Last week, my column discussed how on-demand mobile services -- Tap Your Phone, Get Stuff -- are ripe for venture capital investment. In the seven days that have passed, more startups in this category have been handsomely funded by some of the best investors in the world. And, to cap off the week, the leader in this category, Uber, announced UberRUSH, its local courier service. After years of… Read More -
Phones Go Back To The Future
I'm no fan of LG's rear smartphone control keys -- but turns out the company had its finger on the pulse of looming hardware disruption when it ushered in those backside smartphone controls last summer, with the G2. The back of the smartphone is becoming a space to watch. Read More -
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With Its New Samsung App, Health Startup Lark Moves Away From Hardware
Among the freebies included in Samsung's just-released Galaxy S5 was a new app from Lark, a health startup that's been pretty quiet for the past year or so. In fact, co-founder and CEO Julia Hu told me that Lark has been "pretty much in stealth mode" as it worked on the new app. The vision, she said, is still the same — the company is still trying to provide "personalized health coaching"… Read More -
App.io Turns iOS Apps Into Playable Mobile Ads
App.io, a startup offering tools that allow iOS applications to run in the browser for testing or demo purposes, has now taken the next logical step: it’s bringing its technology the world of mobile advertising. With the company’s newly launched mobile ad product, developers can create ad units that are basically functional copies of their mobile app or game that consumers can play… Read More -
Apple Developers Must Now Agree To Ad Identifier Rules Or Risk App Store Rejection
Apple has just updated a section in iTunes Connect, the service mobile developers use to distribute and update their applications on the iTunes App Store, with new language that details how the Advertising Identifier (IDFA) can and cannot be used, and asks for developers' compliance with these rules by checking a box. Though Apple began rejecting some applications in February which were using… Read More -
Samsung Galaxy S5 Developer Edition Headed To Verizon Soon
Samsung has a Developer Edition of the Galaxy S5, just as it did for the Galaxy S4 and SIII before it, and as usual it’ll have its unlocked bootloader and come at the full, unsubsidized price of around $650 or so. Thus far, the dev edition S5 is listed as a Verizon device only, in Charcoal black with “coming soon” as the only release date. The Developer edition makes it possible… Read More -
FarFaria Brings Hundreds Of Children’s Books To Android
FarFaria, the children's subscription-based e-book service which recently raised $3.25 million in Series A funding, is now bringing its e-reader to Android users, with the launch of a smartphone and tablet-compatible application on Google Play. Users - and by users, I mean parents like me who don't get to the public library that often to check out new books - will now have a selection of over… Read More -
Mobile Game Developer TinyMob Hopes Tiny Realms Is The Next Clash Of Clans
A new Victoria-based gaming startup boasting talent from EA, Zynga and Microsoft Studios is unveiling their debut project today at PAX East 2014 in Boston. TinyMob is the studio, and their debut game Tiny Realms is a Unity-based real-time strategy game for iPad and iPhone that also features resource and kingdom management features that give it common traits with the likes of Farmville and others… Read More
Sunday, April 13, 2014
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