Tag Archives: app

Apple Removed Illegal Apps from China Store Following Pressure from State Media (VentureBeat)

Apple says it has pulled illegal lottery apps from its App Store in China amid tightening regulation and a barrage of criticism from state media. According to state media, the comp... More

Google Launches Cameo, a Video Q&A App for Celebrities (Variety)

Google has launched a new video app that can only be used by a very select audience: Cameo allows celebrities to record short video responses to the most popular search queries ab... More

Fox Sports App Sees Big Lift From World Cup (Variety)

The U.S. soccer team may not have qualified for the World Cup, but Fox Sports is still seeing a big boost in app downloads as soccer fans are looking to stream matches of the tourn... More

NBA’s New AR App Lets You Step Into a Portal to the Finals (CNET)

You can't teleport to a pro basketball game -- yet -- but the NBA is doing the next best thing: Using an augmented reality app to bring you courtside at the NBA Finals. A new updat... More

HBO’s VP of Experience Design on the Company’s Vision for its Apps (Co.Design)

"Now it’s about evolution, not revolution. Yeah we’ve covered our bases with being able to subscribe to HBO or HBO Now, and being able to play the content, but the next step fo... More

Google Cloud Releases Dialogflow Enterprise Edition for Building Chat Apps (TechCrunch)

Building conversational interfaces is a hot new area for developers. Chatbots can be a way to reduce friction in websites and apps and to give customers quick answers to commonly a... More

Survey: Almost Half the World’s Online Population Plans to Tune Into the World Cup (The Drum)

Almost half the world’s online population plans to tune into the Fifa World Cup in Russia according to research from GlobalWebIndex. The company surveyed 80,267 people from more ... More

Showtime Launches App for LG Smart TVs (MCN)

Showtime said it’s the first cable network to launch an app on LG Electronics smart TVs that run webOS. The launch, which includes access on LG’s new 2018 OLED TVs and Super... More

This SAP-Built Mobile App is Taking the $1.7 Trillion Fashion Industry by Storm (Forbes)

What does innovation look like in the digital age? If you ask Alicia Tillman, CMO for enterprise software company SAP, her answer might surprise you. Not only was SAP an official t... More

Google Moves Into In-App Ads, Launches Open Bidding (MediaPost)

Google announced plans to aggressively move into in-app advertising with the launch of new strategies to monetize mobile gaming apps through video and rewards, as well as an innova... More

AWS Lets Users Run SAP Apps Directly on SUSE Linux (IT Pro)

Businesses can now buy SUSE's Linux Enterprise Server for SAP apps directly from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace. SUSE and AWS said their closer collaboration means cu... More

Consumers are Spending More Money on Mobile Streaming Apps (VideoInk)

US consumer spending in the top ten SVOD mobile apps grew 77% in 2017 to approximately $781 million on the App Store and Google Play, according to data from Sensor Tower Store Inte... More

Apple’s App Store Generated Over $11 Billion in Revenue for the Company Last Year (Forbes)

Apple reported that its App Store generated over $26.5 billion in revenue for developers in 2017, which was up about 30% year over year. This means that the App Store created appro... More

AWS Debuts Amazon Sumerian to Build AR, VR and 3D Apps (MESA)

Amazon Web Services announced Amazon Sumerian, a new service that makes it easy for any developer to build Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and 3D applications, and ru... More

HBO Launches ‘Mosaic’ Interactive Storytelling App (HMM)

HBO has partnered with filmmaker Steven Soderbergh to present the Mosaic app, an interactive experience that experiments with the conventions of storytelling. Three years in develo... More

Adidas Launches Smart Shopping App, Tailors Suggestions Based on Consumers’ Personal Style (The Drum)

Adidas has launched its own AI shopping app, which has been specially designed to offer a personalised experience for every customer based on their style and behaviour. The move ma... More

Soderbergh’s New Mosaic App Will Change How You Watch TV (Wired)

Plotting director Steven Soderbergh's latest project—an interactive smartphone app called Mosaic—required covering most of the walls in a Chelsea loft with color-coded cards an... More

How Mobile Apps Drive the Music Industry (IT Pro Portal)

The rise of the internet was, and continues to be, tough for music giants. In the heyday of the industry – when vinyl and CD sales were strong – labels were profitable, but ill... More

Is Augmented Reality the Next Killer Smartphone App? (Morgan Stanley Blog)

When mobile game Pokémon GO launched in July 2016, it quickly became one of the most successful apps of all time, with more than 500 million downloads in the two months after its ... More

YouTube TV Finally Has an App Built for Your Living Room Screen (Engadget)

When YouTube TV arrived earlier this year, it was focused on phones. Sure, you could send video to your TV via Chromecast or AirPlay, but thus far there haven't been apps for the b... More