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Groupon announced today that CEO Andrew Mason is leaving the company. Mason founded the daily deal service in 2008 and by 2011, it had grown to a $1.610 billion company. Mason stepped down as CEO after several quarters of disappointing financial earnings chipped away at the company’s stock. In a moving letter, Mason admits his…
Cricket is looking to make more money from its Muve Music service. And they’re not looking to end-users for this; rather, they’re turning to other carriers which may be interested to offer something similar to their customers. In the two years since launching it, Cricket managed to attract more than 1 million subscribers to Muve…
Yandex is launching a new version of its Yandex.Shell app (formerly SPB Shell), which is one of the world’s most popular UI solutions for customizing Android-based smartphones. In fact, since the announcement in February 2012, the application has been downloaded more than one million times. As you probably already know, Yandex.Shell gives any Android phone…
Wikipedia has been working to make its site even more accessible to users in emerging markets of the world. Their latest gig involves allowing anyone to access the site’s 25 million articles via SMS and/or USSD. Funded by a $600,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, the new service will launch in the next few months,…
It was back in August 2011 when HTC acquired Dashboard which the company wanted to use to beef-up its Cloud-based Sense service. As we know, that didn’t lean anywhere and now they’re re-launching it to help mobile operators “simplify the smartphone user experience.” The press release we’ve got suggests that Dashwire will make it easier…
Samsung announced the TV Discovery service and is ready to demonstrate it at Mobile World Congress next week. The forthcoming service will help consumers find live TV and video content in real-time, while also providing them with suggestions based on the viewing habits of the user. In other words, it’s like Pandora for TV though…
In an effort to appeal to frequent travelers to the UK, AT&T has teamed up with The Cloud to provide its data users with a free 1GB per month when visiting Britain. There’s a total of 16,000 hotspots to choose from, making sure you’ll get your Internet fix pretty much everywhere (where there’s enough people…
Only days after launching in the UK, Nokia is bringing its premium music offering to the US soil. Yup, the Music+ service is now available for US-based Lumia owners for just $4 per month, which is a much better price than what British are paying (4 GBP per month). When compared to the free service,…
More and more developers are taking advantage of our mobile app portal, Appscovery. Here are some of the more interesting apps submitted during the last 7 days: Math Genius Express for iPad – A number puzzle game with 150 solutions to find! AltEgo Announces League of Legends App For Android New App For Family Safety.…
Gracenote launched the Developer program, making its music APIs and SDKs available for companies and individuals who want to integrate them within their apps. Here’s what’s it all about (from the press release): Developers can now access Gracenote’s Mobile Client featuring Gracenote MusicID, an audio fingerprinting technology that can be integrated into mobile Apps to…