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Apple Approaching 50 Billion App Store Downloads, $10K for the Lucky One
As Apple rumbles toward yet another App Store milestone, there's hard cash (well iTunes gift cards) in it for the lucky few who download an app at just the right time.
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Apple Releases iOS 6.1.4 for iPhone 5 Users Only
How's this for flat design, Apple's latest iOS update improves precisely one feature for one model of iPhone. Flat? Largely redundant more like.
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Microsoft's Surface Struggles in Q1, Apple Outperforms Estimates
There doesn't seem to be much of a recession in the tablet space. According to figures just released by International Data Corporation growth in the market is estimated to be 142% year-on-year with Microsoft climbing into fifth position on the back of Surface.
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Facebook's Revenue Beats Estimates As Mobile Use Continues to Boom
Social media giant Facebook has just reported earnings of $1.46 billion and a profit of $219 million as it continued to grow its global user base in the first quarter of 2013.
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Google Now Arrives on iOS to Challenge Siri as your iPhone's Favorite Information Source
Google Now has landed on the iPad and iPhone in an update to the company's search app, bringing Google's power to match your thirst for local, relevant and useful information on the go.
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Google Snaps Up Wavii For Natural Language Search
Wavii has closed down its existing summarizing service app after being acquired by Google, where it will likely fulfill the same role that Summly now does for Yahoo. A Boom in Natural Search With Yahoo having recently relaunched its search app featuring the technology it acquired from Summly, natural language
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Facebook Invests in Mobile App Development With Parse Acquisition
With plenty of revenue from all those desktop web games, how will Facebook translate that as users access social media and games increasingly from their mobile? The acquisition of Parse whose mobile app development SDK for iOS and Android and other platforms powers thousands of apps seems to be one
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LinkedIn Creates Super-Integrated Contacts App for iPhone
Social business service LinkedIn is making lots of moves this month, and its latest effort integrates your contacts with the likes of Outlook, your Google information and other sources to create a new breed of personal assistant app. Everything's Getting Linked In Having earlier this month updated the iOS LinkedIn app with a news- and
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Apple Announces WWDC for June, Tickets Onsale Thursday
Apple has just announced that tickets for its next Worldwide Developer Conference event will go onsale tomorrow with developers likely to get their hands on the next innovations in iOS and OS-X.
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Apple Q2 Results, Nearly $10 Billion in Profit, iPhone and iPad Sales Firm
Apple has reported slightly better than expected results ahead of its earnings call, but sales of iPhones and iPads are losing their dramatic growth of recent years, as the company reports its first drop in profit in a decade.
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Tumblr Adds Adverts to Mobile Feeds, Tapping into Revenue
With just about every report showing a boom in mobile advertising revenue, that blissful serenity when viewing Tumblr blogs on iPhone or Android is now being blighted by adverts, but not too many to turn users off.
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Yahoo Puts Summly To Work in New Search App
Yahoo has barely put the welcome mat back in the cupboard for new acquisition Summly, yet it already it has an updated iOS app to make use of the service's summarizing features. Summing Things Up Nicely Summly was the talk of the town last month having been snapped up by
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TweetDeck Apps are Dead, Web Version Is the Future
TweetDeck has long been a favorite resource for those scanning Twitter across multiple accounts and dimensions. But the app editions will soon be removed from iOS, Android and PC stores to make way for a pure-web version.
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Box Edit Lets Users Create and Alter Documents in the Cloud
Box's latest PC-based feature update allows users to create and edit documents within the cloud, avoiding the need for discrete downloads, juggling apps and version conflicts. The Cloud In A Box After last month's host of updates for Windows 8 devices, Box Edit is a new download for all PCs
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