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Forrester: Tablet “Hyper-Growth” Will Push Global Installed Base Past 905M By...
As mobile computing continues to consume the PC’s lunch, a core part of that cannibalisation story is of course the growth in tablet ownership. Analyst Forrester has put out a new forecast for the...
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Samsung Teases BBM For Android As BlackBerry Further Telegraphs Its BBM...
Samsung is using the upcoming launch of BBM for Android (still just “coming soon”) to promote its Galaxy devices, Samsung App Store and Messaging Hub in a new release targeting the African market....
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Xiaomi Beats Samsung To Top China’s Smartphone Charts
Xiaomi‘s flagship smartphone, the Mi 2S, is the most popular phone in China, according to Chinese benchmarking company, Antutu. According to Antutu’s data on “active device volumes”, the Mi 2S was the...
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Startups Apparently Do Not Care That Android Is Better
In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “Android is Better.” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the...
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As The PC Era Ends, Microsoft’s Next CEO Faces An Uphill Battle On Mobile
The final shoe has dropped in the massive, wholesale re-organization of Microsoft. It began in July and saw all the department heads changed in an effort to focus on hardware and services and make the...
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Steve Ballmer’s Classy Exit
Today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met his critics head-on by announcing that he will relinquish his title within the next 12 months. Microsoft’s stock ticked higher on the announcement, adding about...
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Locket, Which Puts Ads On Your Lock Screen, Asks Users To Vote For The Ads...
Locket, the startup that pays Android users to engage with ads, is now asking those users to weigh in on the type of ads that they want to see. When users install Locket, they’ll start to see ads on...
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Apple Introduces The New iPhone 5C With A6 Processor In 5 Colors
Today, for the first time in its history, Apple has expanded the iPhone line with a new model called iPhone 5C. The device will come in green, yellow, blue, white and red colors. Apple is also...
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iPhone 5C And iPhone 5S Will Cost $99 And $199, Both Will Be Released On...
Today at Apple’s iPhone event, Apple unveiled a cheaper iPhone, the iPhone 5C, as well as the iPhone 5S. While the devices in themselves are not really a surprise after countless of leaks, the price...
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Instagram To Start Showing In-Feed Video And Image Ads To US Users
Well here it is, Instagram is getting ads and it’s starting with users in the US. In a blog post today, Instagram says that users in the country are going to start seeing video and image ads....
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Mobile Twitter: 164M+ (75%) Access From Handheld Devices Monthly, 65% Of Ad...
Twitter started on mobile, and that’s where the service is going. In the S-1 form that the company filed today for its public offering, Twitter called mobile the “primary driver of our business.” It...
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Scan Gets $7M From Entree Via AngelList To Turn The Lowly QR Code Into A...
Scan has raised $7 million from Entree and existing investors, including Menlo Ventures in its Series A round. It’s also announcing its new Scan to Pay service, which allows people to purchase items...
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Simple’s MoneyDrop Will Soon Let Users Transfer Funds Using Bluetooth
Things seem to have been moving rather smoothly for the folks at online banking startup Simple. They’ve spent the last year fleshing out their mobile apps with some much-needed features and added some...
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SkyGiraffe Gets Strategic Investment From Microsoft To Mobilize Enterprises
Last we heard from SkyGiraffe, a platform to extend enterprise systems with mobile devices, it had raised a seed round from Angels (including Parker Thompson, a partner at 500 Startups) back in May....
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Skit! Lets You Create Comedy Animations With Characters From Pacific Rim And...
Skit!, the comedy animation app that TechCrunch first met at Disrupt NY, is ramping up its monetization strategy with sponsored product placements. The latest one is timed to Pacific Rim’s Blu-Ray...
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HTC’s CEO Sheds Some Operational Responsibility To Focus On Product Amid...
Today the Financial Times reported that HTC’s CEO Peter Chou will relinquish some of his daily operational responsibilities to Cher Wang, another of the company’s founders. Chou will use his now freer...
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Ketchuppp Is An App That Wants To Help Friends Catch Up In Person – Not On...
Are you spending too much time looking at what your friends are posting on Instagram and Facebook and not enough time hanging out with each other IRL? The founders of Ketchuppp think so. And their...
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PLAiR 2 Launches To Take On Chromecast With Netflix, Hulu Plus, Spotify, And...
What do you do when your startup launches a product in a nascent category and then a behemoth like Google enters the space and validates it? And eats your lunch in the process? If you’re...
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Airbnb Launches New Mobile Apps, Introduces ‘Host Home’ To Provide Smarter...
Airbnb is hoping to get more of its hosts and guests on mobile, as it has launched a “reimagination” of its iOS and Android apps. Today at an event in Airbnb’s new San Francisco office space, the...
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The Battle For The Connected Home Is Heating Up
Editor’s note: Matt Turck is a managing director of FirstMark Capital. Follow him on Twitter at @mattturck. Almost 15 years ago, a friend of mine at McKinsey spent a few nights writing a document...
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