Tag Archives: app

Google’s Cord Cutter App YouTube TV Reaches 2 Million Downloads (TechCrunch)

Approximately 2 million people have installed the YouTube TV app, Google’s live TV service aimed at a younger generation of cord cutters, as well as those who never signed up for... More

eBay is Adding Visual Search to its Mobile App (Engadget)

Next time you see a cute pair of shoes or a cool shirt you'd like to buy, snap a picture or take a screenshot. eBay has just announced two new features that adds image search capab... More

‘Game of Thrones’ Helps HBO Now Quadruple App Downloads, Triple In-App Revenue (Variety)

HBO’s standalone streaming service HBO Now is experiencing the dragon bump: Downloads of HBO Now’s app for iOS and Android more than quadrupled on the day of the Season 7 premi... More

65% of People Will Install At Least One New App Per Month (ARC)

The runaway train that is the mobile apps economy is not going to stop. According to a recently published global report by mobile analytics provider App Annie, over 65% of peopl... More

Facebook Testing New Tool to Boost Subscriptions for Publishers (Bloomberg)

Facebook Inc. plans to test a tool to drive more subscriptions from directly within its app. “Our partners consistently identified support for subscription business models as a t... More

Streaming TV Apps Grapple with Password Sharing (Reuters)

More than one-fifth of young adults who stream shows like "Game of Thrones" or "Stranger Things" borrow passwords from people who do not live with them, according to a Reuters/Ipso... More

Box Offers Companies Free Tools for Building Apps on its Platform (VentureBeat)

Box announced a new initiative today that’s aimed at providing developers with a set of tools for building apps that use the company’s platform capabilities. Called Box Elem... More

Slack Moves its App Store Front and Center, Backs Seven More Startups in Platform Push (Forbes)

With more than five million daily users, Stewart Butterfield and Slack know they've got a hit on their hands. But for the popular messaging company — No. 3 on the Forbes Cloud 10... More

BBC Launches VR App (TVB Europe)

The BBC has launched a new VR app for free on both Android and iOS – which is also available outside of the UK. The at-launch content includes 360-degree video from Planet Earth ... More

The App Economy Will be Worth $6 Trillion in Five Years Thanks to Mobile Commerce (Recode)

In five years, the app economy will be worth $6.3 trillion, up from $1.3 trillion last year, according to a report released today by app measurement company App Annie. What explain... More

Slack’s Quest to Make Work Easier (Fortune)

How will we work five to 10 years out? And what’s Slack’s role in that future?: Stewart Butterfield: "One way to describe it is that we are giving everyone a virtual chief of s... More

Google Unveils an AI Investment Fund. It’s Betting on an App Store for Algorithms (Wired)

Google just placed yet another bet on the idea that artificial intelligence will remake the world—and throw off wild profits. The company disclosed today that it has created a... More

Facebook to Launch App for Influencers to Manage Content (Variety)

Facebook will launch an app later this year that will provide influencers on its platform the ability to better manage content on its platform. The announcement was made Friday at ... More

Box Introduces Desktop App Box Drive (TechCrunch)

Box just made it a little easier to access your files while you’re at your computer. The company is introducing Box Drive, a desktop application that works on Windows and MacOS. ... More

Apple Piles on the Features, and Users Say, ‘Enough!’ (NYT)

As Apple prepares to show off new features for the iPhone and other devices at its developer conference on Monday, the company is grappling with an uncomfortable issue: Many of its... More

Apple App Store Earns Developers $70 Billion Since Launch, 1 Category Grows 90% in Year (Forbes)

In the run-up to next week’s World Wide Developers’ Conference in San Jose, Apple has revealed how much the App Store has earned for developers since it opened its virtual door... More

Adobe Launches Free Document Scanning App for Android, iOS (VentureBeat)

Adobe is getting into the mobile scanning game with a new free iOS and Android app that is supposed to provide users with high-quality images of physical content they want to captu... More

App Revenue: Apple’s App Store is Minting Millionaires (ARC)

Publishers who are keen to join the ranks of app millionaires should prioritize Apple over Google. A new report said that nascent app publishers are more likely to make their fi... More

Vevo Wants to be the New MTV with its Refined tvOS App (The Verge)

Vevo, the music video service most easily recognized for its presence on YouTube, is putting more faith and resources into TV. The company is releasing a refined app for tvOS, desi... More

Amazon Hints at Plans to Build Apps for Augmented Reality Headsets (Variety)

Amazon Studios has plans to build apps for augmented and mixed reality headsets, if a recent job offer is any indication. The unit’s still-unannounced plans to produce and distri... More