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With Turkey Day approaching quickly, many are preparing to visit their families, enjoy some great food and watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Macy’s announced today its first official Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade application for both the Android Market and iOS App Store just before its annual event in New York City and this will…
I’ve been waiting for Stamped ever since it was announced back in September. It’s a social network for rating things you love, whether it’s places, books, music, movies, apps, and more. It ditches the 5-star rating system that Yelp uses in favor of just one rating option: your stamp of approval. You either stamp things…
BlueStacks, that handy piece of software that allows folks to run Android apps on their PCs, have been updated. The main new thing is support for Windows XP and Windows Vista which means more people can now play Android games on a big screen. Now, as I said it in my previous post on the…
Square has updated its iOS app with few new features for both merchants and customers. Version 2.2 introduces the ability for merchants to reward their regular customers with discounts. Simply define what makes for a “regular customer” (i.e. how many visits per month) and assign an automatic discount to their tab when they check out.…
Evernote has once again updated its Android app with new features. The first thing included in version 3.3 is the full-featured notebook sharing. You can now share your notebooks right from your smartphone or tablet. To do that, go to the notebook list, then tap and hold a notebook, select “Sharing Settings” from the list…
HotelTonight, the mobile app/service that provides iPhone and Android users with deeply discounted same-day hotel deals, raised $9 million in Series B round of financing. The new money comes on the heels of the Series A round, when the company managed to raise $3.25. Battery Ventures led the round while existing investors, Accel Partners and…
In the wake of Adobe’s announcement to suspend all further development of its mobile Flash plug-in, Sibblingz unveiled a new version of the Spaceport platform. Version 3.0 enables full compatibility with Adobe’s PC content creation toolset, allowing Flash developers to use their existing skills to make mobile apps and games. Spaceport 3.0 includes: Support for…
It seems like every day we’re seeing a new mobile music service hitting the streets, so how can a company like SoundCloud stand out from the crowd? According to SoundCloud CEO Alexander Ljung, the company is going to be successful by focusing on being the social platform for sounds on the web. “In regular life,…
The CTIA and ESRB announced that they will be introducing a ratings systems for mobile apps and this will be revealed near the end of the month. We’ll learn more about what this entails when the ratings system is unveiled Nov. 29 but it will be interesting to see what this will require. For those…
The Google+ app for iPhone is designed fairly poorly, and the Gmail app is a complete disaster. Now it seems Google finally figured out how to develop a beautiful and functional iOS app. The company released Google Search for iPad today and it brings an incredible experience along with it. When I first heard about…