With Metrics Up Since Acquisition, Parse Could Get Developers Integrating Facebook And Buying Ads
After being acquired by Facebook, the mobile back-end service Parse has been busy integrating itself into the company, as well as launching new services like web hosting for developers. The service has built tools to help developers focus on the front-end of their product, while handling all of the messy back-end things like cross-platform compatibility … Continue Reading
Pandora Stock Jumps As Revenue Beats The Street, Grows 58% To $128.5M; Mobile Ad Revenue Hits Record High
Pandora has had a busy quarter. In March, the social radio company saw its long-time CEO Joe Kennedy abruptly step dow , leaving the board to scramble to find a replacement. On the bright side, Kennedy’s exit, while likely a result of stress, followed relatively good times for Pandora. And it’s continued to push forward … Continue Reading
Music Awards Worthy of a Tony
Delia Enriquez @dfiregirl4 Kid Rock: “Lets give it up for people lip-synching to pre-recorded music!” And the award for best quote goes to Kid Rock! #BBMAs GavinDeGraw @GavinDeGraw Thank you @KidRock for speaking the TRUTH. Preach! Del Rey. @TeAmoBrit How is it possible that Selena Gomez is lip syncing and still sounds horrible…. bevysmith @bevysmith … Continue Reading
Zoo Chief’s First Tweet Stars a 650-Pound Tortoise
Hi everyone, here’s my first tweet to celebrate World Turtle Day! I am with our giant Aldabra tortoise Rocket. http://t.co/tNNY7r7qq4 — Jim Breheny (@JimBreheny) 23 May 13 James J. Breheny, director of the Bronx Zoo, is a self-described “dinosaur” when it comes to technology. “I’m an animal guy,” he said. “I’m not a techno guy.” … Continue Reading
7 Transformative Photos of Change
Street Art in Águeda, Portugal by Nuno Ribeiro A street turns into an art installation. Expert Says: What a cool situation! The Wynwood Building in Miami, Florida by Tomasz M The sky changes from calm to stormy. Expert Says: Great scene and nice light. Palawan, Philippines by Gretchen Cruz A landscape changes from sand to … Continue Reading
Jawfish Games Launches Its Real-Time, Multiplayer Platform For iOS, Android
Jawfish Games, a Seattle-based startup run by a former professional poker player and the engineering team that built the Fult Tilt Poker site, launched a gaming platform that can host more than 100,000 simultaneous players in real-time tournaments across iOS, Android and the web. While asynchronous, turn-based games have done well on mobile platforms and … Continue Reading
Paper Creators FiftyThree Mulling More Products, And A Tablet Stylus Might Be Next
Paper by FiftyThree is one of the most beautiful digital products on the market today. The immersive drawing app for tablets has won Apple’s Design Award, a Crunchie, and was most recently honored at Time Inc.’s 10 NYC Startups To Watch party. So how do you build on that kind of success? Well, according to … Continue Reading
Twitter Launches TV Ad Targeting, Twitter Amplify For Real-Time Videos In Stream
Twitter today made the latest push in its bid to cozy up to Madison Avenue and the world of big-budget advertising, by tapping more into the kind of mainstream mediums where advertisers like to spend their money. Today the big focus is TV and your living room. In New York, the company announced Twitter Amplify, … Continue Reading
Pinterest API Documentation Briefly Reappears On New Developer Site
Remember how over a year ago, everyone was all excited about the forthcoming Pinterest API? CEO Ben Silbermann even teased its release in a March 2012 email to Pinterest users detailing a Terms of Service change. And API documentation even once popped up on the site, only later to lead to a 404? Well, don’t … Continue Reading
Facebook for Android: 10 Tips for Power Users
Facebook is a lot like crystal meth — it’s highly addictive and will probably cause your teeth to fall out.* Android users are always one tap away from a snarky status update or a friend’s vacation pics. SEE ALSO: 20 Things Your Most Annoying Friends Do on Facebook Facebook’s Android app has come a long … Continue Reading
Wisconsin Girl’s Touching Artwork Wins Google Doodle
The directions were simple: Illustrate your “best day ever.” Sabrina Brady of Wisconsin’s Sparta High School combined Google’s logo with a memorable and moving six-frame story. This is Google’s fourth year running the Doodle 4 Google competition. K-12 students from across the United States submitted artwork between January 14 and March 22. Google selected finalists … Continue Reading
Capture an Unexpected Pair for Our Vine Challenge
Chicken and waffles for breakfast, Seth Rogan and Katherine Heigl as a couple in Knocked Up, Snoop Lion and Miley Cyrus teaming up for a reggae song: some things shouldn’t work — yet, they totally do. For our vine challenge, we want you to create a vine that captures an unexpected pair. Vine users are … Continue Reading
Foursquare Debuts ‘Super-Specific’ Search Filters
Foursquare has refined its search capabilities to make it easier for users to look for particular venues. The location-based social network unveiled what it’s calling “super-specific searches” for iOS and Android on Wednesday. “With today’s update … Foursquare helps you find exactly what you want, whatever that may be,” it announced in a blog post. … Continue Reading
LinkedIn Has Definitely Acqui-Hired Maybe, Omar Hamoui’s Polling Startup, Minus Hamoui Himself
Fresh from closing its purchase of newsreading app Pulse, LinkedIn has made another acquisition to dive deeper into the mobile space. TechCrunch has found out, and confirmed, that the social network has aqui-hired Maybe, the social polling startup founded by Omar Hamoui — the man who set up, ran and then sold mobile ad company … Continue Reading
After Hijackings, Twitter Adds Two-Step Security Feature
The Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for hacking The Financial Times, including its Twitter feed. 4:41 p.m. | Updated with additional information about security vulnerabilities and new claims of patent infringement. On Wednesday, Twitter introduced two-factor authentication, a security feature that makes it harder for hackers to hijack users’ accounts. The rollout follows months of high-profile Twitter … Continue Reading
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