Friday, April 26, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // April 26, 2013

TechCrunch

The countdown is on: only 3 days left until Disrupt NY returns 4/29-5/1 with a massive agenda featuring Software Is Eating The Mall, a conversation with industry leaders including Warby Parker's Dave Gilboa and Nasty Gal's Deborah Benton. Don't miss it. Register Now.

Today's Top Stories // Apr 26, 2013

Google Crashes Facebook Home's Easy Updating Party, Now Requires All Play Apps To Be Updated Through The Play Store

read more

Parse Isn't An OS, But It Is Facebook's Answer To Android And iOS

Facebook doesn't own a mobile operating system, and that's a problem. Developers don't need Facebook to build apps, and it doesn't get a 30% cut of payments.... read more

As Smartphones Reach A Global Tipping Point, Leader Samsung Shipped 71M Devices In Q1, Nearly 2X As Many As Apple

IDC is the first of the big analyst companies to come out with quarterly mobile device shipment numbers that indicate Q1 as the first quarter where smartphones... read more

Blink, A New App For Ephemeral Text And Photo Messaging, Arrives On iPhone

read more

European M-Payments Startup SumUp Partners With Revel Systems, An iPad POS Provider, For Its Push Into Europe

SumUp, one of the many European mobile card reader startups targeting small businesses -- and taking advantage of Square's continued absence to acquire users... read more

Wavii Confirms Google Buy, Shuts Down Its Service To Make Natural Language Products For The Search Giant

Wavii, the natural language technology startup, has updated its home page, and its previously-monochromatic logo, to officially confirm that it has been... read more

Life360, A Family Networking App With More Users Than Foursquare, Is Now Headed For Cars, Smart Home Systems

Foursquare recently announced it has grown to 33 million users, but another, albeit older, location-based app called Life360 just crossed a milestone of its... read more

Backed By Travel Veterans, Superfly Launches A "Mailbox For Travel" As It Shifts From Metasearch Into Big Data

Superfly launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in 2010 with plans to become the Mint.com of travel, or more specifically, for your rewards and frequent flier miles... read more

Hon Hai Looks Toward Indonesia's Promising Economy As Apple's Growth Slows

read more

New Boundary App For Splunk Predicts Root Cause Of App Brownouts

read more

Read more at techcrunch.com

To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.

TechCrunch

No comments:

Post a Comment