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MobileCrunch: How Hike, India's Fast Growing Mobile Messaging App, Is Banking On SMS & Local Diversity To Beat The Big Boys It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its five million registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when you stack them up against the big beasts of...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 12:46pm -07:00T (1763 words)
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MobileCrunch: HTC Pledges To Pump Up ‘One' Production While Samsung's New Flagship Ships Like Crazy Oh HTC. You’ve produced one of the finest Android smartphones ever (seriously, just look at all these reviews), but you’ve faced more than your share of challenges when it came to actually pumping your top-tier One smartphone. As it happens, t...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:31pm -07:00T (395 words)
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MobileCrunch: GrubSeam? Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address the many inefficiencies in our food manufacturing, prod...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:31pm -07:00T (1379 words)
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MobileCrunch: Google Now Introduces Mark Up Tools For Select Partners To Flag Flights, Hotel Stays And Reservations In Emails Google made a relatively quiet announcement today regarding how it’s pushing the developer ecosystem forward around Google Now, its intelligent personal assistant for Android devices. The company has begun extending mark up tools for emails from s...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:16pm -07:00T (309 words)
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MobileCrunch: Apple Boots Bang With Friends From The App Store Uh oh.
Less than ten days after Bang With Friends made its mobile debut on the iOS App Store, Apple has seemingly changed its mind and given it the boot.
As I noted in the post at the time, I was actually a bit surprised to see Apple green light this one ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 3:46pm -07:00T (220 words)
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MobileCrunch: Gmail And The Stock Android Email App Combined Have Over 100M Mobile Users Google’s Vikram Aggarwal, a software engineer working on the Android platform, revealed today that Gmail and Email, the native Android client that still ships on Android devices as well, now has a combined user base of more than 100 million across t...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 3:46pm -07:00T (316 words)
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MobileCrunch: Amidst Tumblr Acquisition Rumors, Yahoo To Hold Product Event With Marissa Mayer On Monday Yahoo has been on an acquisition tear of late, snapping up apps and mobile startups like they’re going out of style. Summly, Astrid, GoPollGo, MileWise, Loki Studios have all been acquired in the last month-and-a-half, while Yahoo simultaneously mad...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 1:16pm -07:00T (308 words)
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MobileCrunch: Social Trip Planning App Tripshare Converts Travel Inspiration To Bookings Tripshare, an iPad application for travel planning, is joining a crowded space. But its CEO knows a little something about the industry – Bob Dana was the former employee #1 and first CFO of Virgin America. He once wrote the business plan and feasib...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 9:31am -07:00T (821 words)
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MobileCrunch: Vevo Dostępne Po Polsku Vevo, popularny serwis muzycznych teledysków, ogłosił oficjalną dostępność w Polsce. Usługa, wcześniej niedostępna w tym regionie geograficznym, będzie zawierać video-clipy najpopularniejszych polskich gwiazd jak Brodka, Pezet, a może i nawet...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:01am -07:00T (134 words)
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MobileCrunch: Galaxy S4 Will Pass 10M Shipments Next Week Less Than A Month After Launch, Says Samsung Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, is poised to pass 10 million shipments next week less than a month after the device launched, says co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun, according to the Korea Times. The S4′s international release took p...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 5:46am -07:00T (293 words)
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MobileCrunch: CrowdOptic Raises Another $1M To Build Experiences Based On Where Your Phone Is Pointing CrowdOptic, a startup with technology for identifying where people are pointing their smartphone cameras, has raised another $1 million in funding.
When I’ve spoken to the team in the past, they’ve emphasized the ways this could be used to cre...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 6:31pm -07:00T (248 words)
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MobileCrunch: MessageMe Raises A $10M Series A Led By Greylock As It Gears Up For Money And Premium Services In Its Rich Messaging App MessageMe — a messaging app that launched in March with a little Facebook controversy thrown in — has raised another $10 million, according to an SEC filing earlier today. The Series A round was led by Greylock Partners; and as part of it, J...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 6:31pm -07:00T (543 words)
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MobileCrunch: Google Says All 2,000 Glass Explorers Have Been Invited To Pick Up Their Device Today, Steve Lee of the Google X and Glass Team, announced that as of last week, all 2,000 developers who signed up for the Glass Explorer program at last year’s I/O conference have now been invited to pick up their devices from Google’s offi...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 5:16pm -07:00T (362 words)
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MobileCrunch: eBay Updates iOS Apps With Revamped UI, Drivers License Scanning For Sign-Ups, And A Whole Lot More eBay has just updated its mobile app with a whole host of new features and a revamped look. To start, the refreshed UI makes it clear that eBay wants a more heavy-duty offering for its mobile users. You can now enjoy larger photo views, a better system fo...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 12:16pm -07:00T (305 words)
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MobileCrunch: Yahoo Partners With Twitter To Further Personalize Homepage Newsfeed Yahoo and Twitter have partnered to bring tweets directly into Yahoo homepage’s newsfeed on web and mobile, the company announced this morning. The move follows the February relaunch of the front page. At the time, the company debuted a redesigned ...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 11:01am -07:00T (396 words)
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