It appears that at least some of the innovations found in early 2012 Apple acquisition Chomp, a mobile app search and discovery platform, have made their way into the new iOS 6 App Store application. Screenshots from the beta version of Apple’s mobile operating system were posted by 9to5Mac.com and are now making their...
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Jake Jolis Jake Jolis, founder of Y Combinator startup, Verbling. Our company has a new rule: everybody on the team has to talk to users. Everyday users can explain what they do not like about your product and provide crucial clues on how to make it better. Admittedly, talking to users seems at face...
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In the half year since it first launched, France’s upstart wireless carrier Free Mobile has signed up 3.6 million customers, lured in by its incredibly cheap voice and data plans. Its second quarter wasn’t quite as astonishing as its first, in which it saw 2.6 million activations, but 1 million net additions is still...
It has been a week of firsts for Intel and Microsoft, two behemoths of personal computing that have lost a lot of their swagger (if not their money-making power) with the rise of mobile computing. Qualcomm and Apple along with Google have become the harbingers of the mobile future. In the past, I have...
If you love nothing more than sitting in front of the TV, armed with a bottle of wine and a box-set, well, this app could be right up your alley. Showy is the handiwork of two 15-year-olds from Spain. “I have developed a new app which solves a big problem,” says Jorge. “Do you...
Kima Ventures, the French early-stage investment firm that wears the “most active angel investor in the world” badge it received from Business Insider last year with pride, is poised to let startups worldwide know it is just getting started. Jérémie Berrebi, a former IT journalist who became a startup investor and co-founded Kima Ventures...
Revenue from social networking games is expected to top $4.5 billion this year, up from $3.2 billion in 2011, and it looks like online-game sales could surpass retail sales as soon as next year. A Chinese study tries to figure out why these games are the fastest growing segment of the $66 billion video-game...
Digital media holding IAC today announced its acquisition of DateHookup.com, which it bills as “one of the largest ad-supported online dating sites in the United States” with more than 1 million unique visitors per month. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, sadly. DateHookup will become part of IAC’s portfolio of online dating...