Over one-third of Android phones sport 4G

The plethora of 4G-equipped Android devices released over the last year has made the platform a leader in 4G. Thirty-seven percent of Android phones in the US offer some form of 4G, reports the app analytics firm Localytics.

That’s an impressive figure, considering that 4G Android phones accounted for just 22.6 percent of all Android devices at the beginning of the year. The number of 4G Android phones has grown more than 50 percent in … Continue Reading

Hulu’s highest bidders? Google and Dish Network

Streaming video service Hulu has had a second series of bids from potential buyers, ranging from $1.9 billion to $4 billion, reports Business Insider.

The service, which provides ad-supported premium TV and film content to users, has been up for sale since June. Hulu’s owners — News Corp., Walt Disney, Comcast — would rather sell the service than continue to conflict over Hulu’s future business strategy. The initial set of bids, made last month, have … Continue Reading

Raptr unveils new data about Zynga’s social gamers

All eyes are on Zynga now as the social gaming company prepares to go public in an initial public offering. The social game maker has revealed some data about itself in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But Raptr, the social network for gamers, has been mining its own data on 10 million users for information about Zynga, and it is releasing it in a report today.

The data reveals that Zynga’s user base … Continue Reading

Happy Cloud teams up with AMD for connected TV games

Cloud-gaming firm Happy Cloud plans to work with Advanced Micro Devices to bring games-on-demand to connected TVs.

Under the partnership, Happy Cloud will give users access to Windows-based PC games via web-connected TVs that use AMD’s embedded G-Series microprocessors. Those chips combine graphics and a processor on a single chip, allowing TVs that use them to run thousands of high-quality Windows games. If it takes off, the console makers will have more cloud-based competition.

“You … Continue Reading

Disney launches Appmates mobile app toys for the iPad (video)

Disney is throwing the combined firepower of its Cars entertainment brand, its retail toy business, and its mobile app capability into a new line of Appmates mobile application toys being announced today.

The entertainment giant will sell Appmates toys based on Cars 2 movie characters, and those toys can be used to control a virtual racing world on an Apple iPad. It is one more example of a gaming app that is a hybrid of … Continue Reading

Tiny Speck launches zany social game Glitch with giant imagination

An unusual online game called  Glitch is launching today. From the moment you log in, you know you’re not in the real world anymore. You appear inside a brain, one of the minds of eleven giants who imagine the game’s zany landscape.

“It is super metaphorical,” the greeting for the tutorial says. “Your job is to grow and expand the world, shaping it while developing your own unique character.”

This journey into the imagination isn’t … Continue Reading

Miso transforms Dexter’s season premiere into a ‘Pop-Up Video’ experience

Social TV platform Miso is launching a new feature today that adds original synchronized content to TV episodes watched on a DirecTV set-top box.

Basically, when users check in using Miso’s iPhone app, they’ll get push notifications asking them trivia questions, identifying music that’s currently playing and sending interesting facts about the episode  — all in real-time.

“As you watch TV, the mobile device synchronizes with the TV, and we can deliver something interesting at … Continue Reading

Chomp gets a stunning iPhone redesign to help you find more apps

With its latest iPhone app, the mobile app search company Chomp has delivered a stylish new redesign that not only looks good, but will also help you easily find new and interesting apps.

The free Chomp app, available today on the iTunes Store, is a prime example of how an attractive interface can help users better take advantage of existing functionality. It’s also the first in Chomp’s lineup (which includes its Android and web apps) … Continue Reading

Reppler has a new way to rate your social network image

More than 90 percent of hiring managers and recruiters use social network sites to screen candidates, according to a survey released today by Reppler, a Palo Alto-based social network monitoring company.

The company’s monitoring service now includes a Reppler Image Score that captures the professionalism and consistency of an online image. This score includes various factors including tone of content, appropriateness of content and the consistency of a person’s profile information across social networks.

Reppler … Continue Reading

CareCloud raises $20M+ to help doctors run their business in the cloud

CareCloud, a Miami-based company that provides cloud-based practice management tools for healthcare providers, just raised $20.1 million from Silicon Valley-based Intel Capital and Norwest Venture Partners.

“They must believe in us if they’re willing to spend money on frequent cross-country flights for meetings,” laughs Albert Santalo, CEO and founder of CareCloud in an interview with VentureBeat.

CareCloud creates apps that help medical professionals run their businesses. Those apps include a community collaboration and communication platform … Continue Reading

A Bit Lucky debuts its Lucky Space social game on Facebook

A Bit Lucky, a social gaming firm that is shooting to make high-end Facebook games, is launching its second game today, called Lucky Space. The game is in the simulation and strategy category on Facebook and has players build a space colony in a sci-fi universe. If it turns out to be a hit, A Bit Lucky can consider itself a real player in the high-stakes social gaming market.

A Bit Lucky already has a … Continue Reading

Facebook may launch iPad and HTML5 iPhone apps at Apple’s Oct. 4th event

Facebook is finally launching its iPad application and will be doing so at Apple’s October 4th event, rumored to be the release of the iPhone 5.

According to Mashable‘s sources, the social network may also introduce its latest iPhone app, potentially revamped in HTML5, at the same event.

The app has been long-awaited. In July, iPad-wielding Facebookers were given a taste of what may come when screenshots of the app were leaked. The app has … Continue Reading

Mindbloom Life game teaches you how to live better

Most games can be time sinks, stealing time away from the things that you’re supposed to be doing. But Mindbloom is the kind of game you can feel good about playing. It is a simple game aimed at improving your quality of life by rewarding you for doing the things that are really important.

The idea is to grow the life you want by thinking about it a few minutes a day, said Chris Hewett, … Continue Reading

Facebook responds to allegations of privacy violations via cookie tracking

Facebook has responded to claims that the company can track web pages a person visits even after logging out of the social network — something that could violate a person’s privacy rights.

Yesterday, VentureBeat reported on tests run by entrepreneur/hacker Nik Cubrilovic, who determined that Facebook merely alters its tracking cookies when a user log out, rather than deleting them. Those cookies still contain account information and other unique identifiable information, which means Facebook can … Continue Reading

Whopping Google+ traffic growth: 1269% in a week, hits 50M members

Google+ opened its doors to the public last week, and has since seen a whopping 1269 percent growth in traffic, according to data from Experian Hitwise. The social network may also have hit 50 million members, according to analyst Paul Allen.

Google+ has been seen as one of the fasted growing social networks since it first appeared on the grid. The social network reached 10 million users, two weeks out of the box, which Google+ … Continue Reading

Amazon may debut its ‘Kindle Fire’ tablet Wednesday

Amazon will announce its new Kindle tablet device at a special press conference Wednesday, according to a report from TechCrunch.

The tablet, which is reportedly dubbed the “Kindle Fire” to differentiate itself from the company’s e-ink e-book reader tablet, is rumored to run a heavily modified version of Android and will retail for $250. At that price point, the seven-inch Kindle Fire could be a big competitor against Apple’s iPad and various Android tablets already … Continue Reading

Workout-tracking app Endomondo hits 5 million downloads, gets $2.3M

What fun is sweating through a tough workout if there’s nobody around to be impressed by it? Endomondo is a mobile fitness-tracking application that not only tracks your workouts, but also shares that information with like-minded fitness buffs for motivation.

Today, the company announced on its blog that it has reached 5 million downloads and secured a second round of funding for $2.3 million from Seed Capital.

Targeting joggers, cyclists, walkers and just about any … Continue Reading

Facebook extends tentacles into D.C., forms political action committee

Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. just got even closer. Today, Facebook confirmed it is forming a political action committee (PAC) to bring a louder political voice to social innovation.

According to The Hill, Facebook admitted to creating the PAC after rumors the social network had purchased domains FBPAC.org and FBPAC.us appeared on Fusible yesterday.

“FB PAC will give our employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process by supporting candidates who … Continue Reading