Sometime in the past week, Facebook flipped the switch on allowing you to add your unborn baby to your list of family members via the “Expected: Child” option on Facebook profiles. Apparently too many parents were creating “illegal” fake profiles for their yet unhatched offspring — setting their fake babies’ ages to 13 instead...
Janrain, the Portland, Oregon-based software-as-a-service company, has closed on $15.5 million in funding. Janrain plans to put the money toward general growth initiatives such as hiring and product development, CEO Larry Drebes said in an interview Tuesday. The new round brings Janrain’s total venture capital investment to $18.75 million. This new funding round was...
As a recent free app of the day in Amazon’s Appstore , Shifty Jelly’s Pocket Caster Android app, benefitted hugely from the exposure. Sales of the software jumped from 20 per day to more than 101,491 on the day Amazon offered it at no charge. It sounds like another mobile app developer strikes gold, except...
Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is releasing the results of its Mobile Threat Report. The report is based on threat and security data from Lookout’s Mobile Threat Network, which includes data collected from more than 700 thousand apps and 10 million devices worldwide. You can access the...
Mashery recently open-sourced a new interactive API documentation system called Mashery I/O Docs. It’s available from Github. I/O Docs enables developers to experiment with API calls from within the documentation. You can see it in action at Posterous and Wordnik Alibris and Klout (correction: the Posterous and Wordnik APIs were the inspiration for I/O...
Are you an iOS developer thinking about dipping your toe into the Android pool? If so, you should read developer Nick Farina’s post about his experience developing on Android after developing on iOS. Farina compares the development environment (he writes that you’ll hate Eclipse at first, but once you get used to it “you’ll...
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If you’re one to prefer web apps over native, then we have some good news for you. Twitter has announced a spanking new version of Twitter.com specifically designed for the iPad with all the HTML5 goodness you would expect. The design matches the not-so-recently updated Twitter for iPhone web app but also adds the...
Well you knew it was coming and now it’s finally here. Old Twitter is going to be shut down this week and new Twitter will become the only Twitter. If you have yet to make the switch, you can learn all the ins and outs of what new Twitter brings here or watch the video...
Apple is looking to hire a software engineer to help the iWork team craft a web experience, according to a job posting discovered by Appleinsider. The position calls for an applicant to work with the iWork team on the ‘front and/or back end of scalable web applications’. The posting comes just a day after...
Online advertising company ValueClick is on a bit of an acquisition spree. After acquiring mobile ad network Greystripe earlier this year, the company is buying personalized ad technology company Dotomi. The deal is valued at $295 million, consisting of approximately 55 percent in cash and 45 percent in ValueClick common stock. Dotomi will become...