Rounds brings together mobile video chat with shared web browsing

Rounds is adding yet another compelling spin to the mobile video-chat formula.

Social polling startup Poutsch comes out of beta and onto the iPhone

Poutsch's addictive social polling is finally opening up to the public today with the launch of a new iPhone app.

5 ways to scale your mobile app like a pro from Evernote’s CTO

With apps on just about every platform, Evernote knows a thing or two about app development. Here's some wisdom from the company's CTO.

Apple’s haiku to itself (and answer to Android)

Which other global company, I wonder, would start its developer conference with a poem? None, I suspect.

Which is probably why we both love and hate Apple.

Foursquare finally optimizes its Android app for tablets and big smartphones

Foursquare has finally released a version of its app optimized for the screens of tablets and larger smartphones.

Three months from today, Google Play will have more total app downloads than Apple

As sure as gravity, Google Play will surpass Apple's app downloads in September of this year. It's simple a matter of mathematics.

Pitching an app? Appgyver says it can deliver gorgeous prototypes & more (exclusive)

Appgyver exclusively announced to VentureBeat that it has raised $1.325M in seed funding for its toolset that developers can use to easily test and deploy apps.

Google bans face recognition apps for Glass

There goes my great plan to use Glass to help me remember people I'm supposed to know.

The FDA launches first inquiry into medical iPhone app

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week launched its first investigation into an unregulated Urinalysis app, a warning to health app makers.

Twitter updates mobile apps so you can tweet photos in under 6 seconds

Twitter updated its iOS and Android apps today to make tweeting pictures faster and better. And showed us the benefits via Vine, the social network's own video-sharing startup.

An hour on your smartphone each day means Google Glass can’t come soon enough

The good news, I assume, is that Google Glass will restore our masculinity (and, I assume) femininity.

Appurify raises $4.5M to help developers speed up mobile app testing

In an effort to save developers from mobile app testing hell, Appurify has developed a service to let you automate testing across actual mobile devices.

Google and Microsoft agree to play nicely on a new YouTube Windows Phone app

It's all sunshine and lollipops over in Windows Phone land today.

Marissa Mayer and Yahoo are on fire, acquiring gaming company PlayerScale

If I can paraphrase a popular Alicia Keys song, this woman is on fire. Marissa Mayer is clearly moving Yahoo back into the center of the Silicon Valley tech conversation.

Twitter granted pull-to-refresh patent that everyone already uses (and sort of gives it away)

The developer of pull-to-refresh was so concerned about how Twitter would use his patent that he asked Twitter to agree with him -- as part of the terms of the sale of his company -- that it would never use the patent offensively.