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The maker of popular iOS apps Fotopedia is teaming-up with online travel agency Expedia to allow its users to book hotels from within select apps, namely Fotopedia Paris and Fotopedia Japan. This ad deal — cause we’re sure Fotopedia will make some money out of it — requires that your iOS-based device also has the…
As part of its never-ending quest to distinct its vehicles from Mercedes and Audi, BMW is teaming-up with Nuance to allow its customers to safely use their phones while driving. The new 2012 BMW 7 Series, BMW 3 Series Touring and BMW 3 Series ActiveHybrid vehicles will be the first to get Dragon Drive! Messaging…
Foursquare is announcing today what it’s calling the “next evolution” of third-party developer integration: connected apps. 25,000 developers were using Foursquare’s API up until now, but it was never able to be tied together with the Foursquare app itself — the features were all by their lonesome in a separate app. Starting today, Foursquare is…
Barnes & Noble has struck a deal with DC Comics to bring their popular comics to the Nook Tablet and Nook Color users. The first batch includes more than 100 of DC’s graphic novels, including various Superman, Batman and Sandman titles, as well as the first storylines from The New 52, which is the initiative…
Draw Something will soon be jumping from smartphones to TV screens, with CBS securing the rights to make a pilot based on the popular drawing game. Despite the game’s declining popularity — though it still has millions of users — CBS had to compete with other media companies for the privilege, including Sony Pictures Television,…
A company called Nanosys is teaming-up with the Optical Systems Division of 3M to provide “wide color gamut technology” and make LCD screens display 50% more color. The two companies will work together to commercialize Nanosys’ Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF) technology, which is a drop-in film that LCD manufacturers can integrate with existing production…
Thus far we’ve seen a number of different ways to get money out of the Angry Birds franchise. And just when we though we’ve seen it all, the Moscow-based Promsvyazbank announced it launch the world’s first line of Angry Birds-branded bank cards. According to The Moscow Times, this tie-in is the first official Angry Birds…
Zynga has teamed-up with American Express to launch the Zynga Serve Rewards program, which is tied to the Serve digital wallet and is touted to “break new ground in the prepaid card market” by offering in-game incentives for everyday spending. As a result of this co-operation, FarmVille players have the ability to plant an interactive…
Dolphin Browser, which is already the single most used third-party web browser for Android and iOS platforms (and my favorite browser in case you ask), is turning to East for further expansion. The company announced a pre-install deal with Japan’s major mobile operator – KDDI. As a result, Dolphin Browser will be pre-loaded on future,…
MediaTek, which is a fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, announced that it will preload Gameloft games on its feature and smartphone platform solutions. At the same time, Gameloft will allocate dedicated R&D team and resource for the development of games that will run on MediaTek’s platforms. As a result, certain…