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Rovio is hoping to turn Angry Birds into the next Mario and the company is looking to raise funds at a valuation of about $1.2 billion, according to a report in Bloomberg. Rovio had previously raised $42 million but it appears like it needs more cash to expand. On its ambitious schedule is a full-featured…
Thus far Google Movies aka Videos app was only available for select Honeycomb tablets. Then we’ve noticed that some Samsung Galaxy Tab users spotted a new Videos tab on the Android Market, and now the search giant’s video renting service is available to pretty much any Android smartphone user, presuming his or her device runs…
KAYAK has updated its ever popular iPhone app, making it even more useful. There are few enhancements included in this release, including: New Tours & Attractions feature which allows users to book various tours like Boston’s Duck Boat Tours or audio walking guides right from within the app. In order to make this happen, KAYAK…
Pandigital is a little known tablet maker which is seemingly trying hard to differentiate its products from all those cheap Chinese tablets out there. Their idea is to partner with GetJar and offer users a wide selection of free apps and games out of box. Under the terms of the deal, GetJar will be pre-installed…
News360 has just updated their app for iPad and Android to tap into your Facebook, Twitter, Evernote and Google account to figure out the kind of stuff you’re interested, and serve up relevant content. They’re calling the system “reverse search”, in that the right content finds you, rather than the other way around. Neat idea,…
The Opinionaided app has just been updated to include new features and the company has also announced it has received $4.3 million in funding to help with its goal of quickly helping users gather opinions. The Opinionaided app will allow you to do things like take a picture of you with a new shirt and…
Ever since this past May when Gameloft released a teaser trailer for its upcoming Let’s Golf! 3, we’ve been keeping an eye out for any information regarding the game. As is the typical Gameloft fashion, no other details on the game were released until its actual release date, which is today. Let’s Golf! 3 has…
The folks at Box have just made some major improvements to its mobile strategy, as the cloud-storage/collaboration company has just rolled out apps for Android Honeycomb, Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Playbook and an HTML5 mobile site which can be accessed by most modern smartphone browsers. Box is similar to Dropbox in that it provides online…
The New Yorker is everything but a novice player in the mobile app market with their iPad app counting more than 20,000 paid subscribers. Like that’s not enough, they’re out with another title, this time made for both iOS and Android device users (and by both I mean two of the most popular platforms in…
Like Greek Yogurt? I love it and was glad to find out that one yogurt maker (or its ad agency) decided to “do something” the growing army of smartphone users. That company is Voskos Greek Yogurt, which iOS and Android apps provide users with dozens of easy-to-prepare options for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Available…