Cloud storage startup Dropbox will provide a generous 50GB of free storage to new owners of the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S III Android smartphone.
The move mimics Dropbox’s prior decision to team up with HTC to give owners of the …
After whipping up an iPhone-like buzz for its Galaxy S series, Samsung today finally unveiled its latest entry in the series, the Galaxy S III.
As expected, the phone is an absolute monster, with a huge 4.8-inch screen sporting a …
Underground Wi-Fi service is finally coming to New York City subway stations.
Transit Wireless has a signed a deal with Wi-Fi provider Boingo to wire New York City’s underground subway stations with Wi-Fi access. Service will roll out gradually over …
You’ve likely never heard of LifeStreet Media, even though the company has paid Facebook and mobile developers over $100 million in advertising revenue, and driven more than 200 million app installs. Today the company is coming out of hiding to …
Boku, the company that allows you to pay for online purchases with your mobile phone number, is announcing today it has signed a deal with Sprint, allowing it to process mobile payments with all of the major U.S. mobile phone …
The latest cross-platform report from Nielsen reveals that the number of hours people spend watching live broadcast programming is down sharply compared to a year ago.
The main culprit? “Time-shifted” DVR devices, according to the report. Basically, that means people …
Evernote confirmed its rumored massive funding round this morning, though it wasn’t the $100 million whopper early reports indicated. The digital note-taking company raised $70 million at a valuation of $1 billion in its fourth round of funding, led by …
After launching in November as a gorgeous app for making social collages, the iPad app Mixel received an update today that will let you create private image threads, instead of having every Mixel creation public.
With increased privacy, users will …
UC Berkeley’s idea of dorm life probably consists of noisy roommates, unwashed linens, half-eaten cups of Ramen noodles, and maybe a few electrical outlets to power a laptop.
The university is making freshman student Derek Low go back to those …
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These days it seems like everyone is building an app — not just consumer apps, but apps for the enterprise, too. Google and Salesforce.com, for example, are making hundreds of APIs available, and developers are seizing the opportunity to build …
CrowdStar, which is shifting from social to mobile games, has raised $11.5 million in a recent round of funding. At the same time, the company will lay off a couple dozen of its Facebook game developers.
These changes are a …
App security company Appthority announced today that it has secured $6.25 million in a first round of funding.
Appthority, which was founded in 2011, works to prevent potential malware, location tracking, keystroke recording and corporate data.
Although mobile apps are …
After proving it can still innovate in the smartphone arena with the Lumia 900, Nokia is now getting aggressive about defending its patents. The company announced this morning that it has filed patent suits against HTC, Research in Motion, and …
Apple’s senior vice president for iOS Scott Forstall took advantage of Apple’s high stock price last Friday and sold 64,151 shares worth around $38.7 million.
The stock sale (PDF) relieved Forstall of around 95 percent of his Apple holdings, Fortune’s …
The Pebble smartwatch has been a runaway success story for Kickstarter’s crowdfunding model, with almost $8 million pledged for the project so far. Now Runkeeper, a popular app for measuring and tracking your fitness, is joining in on the fun …
Independent mobile ad network InMobi has launched a new, free Ad Tracker that can measure mobile conversion rates without needing to know your phone’s unique identifier (UDID), the company announced today.
Apple has begun rejecting apps that access a user’s …
Japanese mobile social network Gree has acquired Funzio, a fast-growing maker of hardcore mobile and social games, for $210 million.
Funzio has the rare distinction of having three games that have all garnered big audiences. Over the weekend, as we …
Motorola Mobility posted another not-so-hot earnings report for the first quarter today, with a net loss of $86 million on revenues of $3.1 billion. Considering Motorola lost $80 million in the fourth quarter last year, the company clearly needs to …
Inkling’s digital publication platform helped textbook makers move to the iPad. Now, the company is setting its sights on travel with the launch of Frommer’s Day by Day travel guides for the iPad and iPhone.
Travel has traditionally been one …
If you’ve got a great idea for a BlackBerry app, you might as well go ahead and develop it. If you don’t make at least $10,000 in the first year, RIM will write you a check for the difference.
At …
