Tag Archives: app

Advice to Big Ops: Add Streamers to the Box (Multichannel News)

Integrating apps from subscription video-on-demand services into cable set-top boxes could go a long way toward tapping into an underserved demographic for subscription video-on-de... More

Slack, the Facebook Slayer (The Atlantic)

Facebook may be devouring the web, but Slack is increasingly nibbling on a significant portion of it. The group-chat platform announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with 12 co... More

Self-Driving Cars Could Add Billions in Revenue to Entertainment Companies (Hollywood Reporter)

While American drivers remain ambivalent about self-driving cars, they are far less conflicted about demanding high levels of connectivity from their personal vehicles. Now, a new ... More

Slack Is Making Its Workplace Chat App Even Stickier (Fortune)

More than 3 million people use Slack’s workplace chat app daily—many of them for 10-hour stretches on any given workday. Now the business software company has created another r... More

Can This $3.99-Per-Month Video App Bite into YouTube’s Audience? (MBW)

There’s a reasonable amount of logic in the idea that YouTube’s dominance will only be challenged by video apps which understand a field of culture better than anyone else. Tha... More

Twitter Launches Mobile App for Video Creators (WSJ)

Twitter unveiled a new mobile application Tuesday designed to help video creators increase their audiences on the social network and make money in the process. The stand-alone app ... More

Slack Adds Message Buttons So You Can Use Other Apps Without Ever Leaving (Forbes)

Slack is happy if its users want other productivity apps to go with Slack’s own communications tools. But with new message buttons, Slack is making it clear that it would prefer ... More

This is Meerkat’s New Video App: Houseparty (Recode)

Meerkat is back to try this video startup thing a second time. Meerkat, the former SXSW darling that abandoned its once-hyped livestreaming app earlier this year, has another app o... More

The Easiest Way to Find Live Sports Streams Is Now in the App Store (Motherboard)

Watching sports online can be a real pain in the ass. Why? Because there’s no central place to find exactly what you’re looking for. It’s not like tuning into your cable guid... More

CenturyLink Buys Cloud App Management Specialist ElasticBox (LightReading)

CenturyLink has acquired startup ElasticBox to better enable its enterprise customers to manage applications services across 12 different cloud providers, including its own cloud a... More

Salesforce Service Cloud Adds Native SDKs for iOS, Android and the Web (App Developer)

Salesforce has released new native SDKs for iOS, Android and the Web to provide companies access to its Service Cloud Lightning Snap-ins which provide the ability to deploy a new s... More

Salesforce Bets on Citizen Developers to Build the Next Wave of Business Apps (SiliconAngle)

If there’s any truth to the idea that every company is a software company, then perhaps every company employee needs to learn how to create software. Or at least that’s what Sa... More

Salesforce Launches $50 Million Fund Around Its Lightning Apps Platform (Forbes)

As it seeks to build a developer community around its Lightning platform, Salesforce is borrowing a tactic from younger enterprise company trying to do the same thing. Just months ... More

The Future of Apple’s App Store is Subscriptions (The Verge)

Apple’s annual conference for developers, which kicks off next Monday, is normally when the company previews its newest software for iOS and Mac OS X. But this year’s WWDC isn�... More

Three Million People Now Use Slack Every Day (Recode)

Slack now boasts three million daily active users, up from two million as recently as December. The number of paid seats — users whose companies are at the paid level of service ... More

Box Empowers Devs Through Developer Experience Platform (ITProPortal)

Online file sharing and content management platform Box today announced a new feature which should make developing within its platform much easier. The new feature is called Box De... More

An App Store For Analytics (Forbes)

Daniel Graham, Teradata: It’s one thing for a forward-thinking CEO to want his organization to make more extensive use of analytics. It’s quite another to overcome the challeng... More

Disney Is Consolidating Its VR Apps: Here’s Why That Matters (Refinery29)

Were you to get a VR headset and decide to use it, you’d find that the content is frustratingly hard to find. There's a lot of great stuff, but the hunt can be frustrating. Disne... More

Twitter Adds ‘Go Live’ Button To App (IBT)

Twitter is ramping up its push into live video. A “Go Live” button, which provides a one-tap navigation to Twitter’s Periscope app, is now available to some Android users in ... More

New Slack Sign-In Ups Apps Reach (MediaPost)

Like Facebook and other platforms, Slack is trying to position itself as a digital gatekeeper for third-party app developers. Unveiled on Tuesday, a new Sign in with Slack service ... More