Facebook is focusing on integrating news discovery based on your friends’ activity in the news feed, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today at f8, the company’s annual developers conference.
Zuckerberg’s keynote presentation focused on the influence you have over your friends, …
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(The King of Code contest is sponsored by Windows Phone and is open to developers on any mobile platform.)
Like many other King of Code finalists, iPhone developer Ricky Robinett got an early start. In middle school, he built a …
Not to be forgotten in the wake of popular subscription music services like Spotify and Rdio, the revamped (and legal) Kazaa has now launched its own iPhone app.
Kazaa — which was infamous as a peer-to-peer network before it was …
Google just unveiled a boatload of new features for its fledgling Google+ social network, many of which will be sure to please fans of its Hangouts group video chat.
First off, Google+ Hangouts is now available on Android phones via …
Podio, a company that lets anyone easily create Web apps tailored to their business workflow, today officially launched an iPhone app.
The company’s app builder, which launched back in March, lets users without any technical background easily create business apps, …
The Open Mobile App Directory (OMAD), a new site by Orange Silicon Valley, aims to be the one app directory to rule them all.
The site boasts a cross-platform directory of mobile applications — including iOS, Android and BlackBerry apps …
Lemon.com wants all of your receipts. Instead of having receipts pile up in your inbox, or letting them become an indiscernible wad of paper in your wallet, you can send them to Lemon.com where they’ll be instantly filed and organized.…
Microsoft on Tuesday showed off more features of its new Windows 8 operating system at the Microsoft BUILD developers conference in Anaheim, Calif.
The OS was first previewed back in early June and is being designed explicitly with the purpose …
Online media editing suite Aviary is taking its first step onto mobile devices today with the launch of its mobile SDK, which lets developers embed photo editing capabilities into any iPhone or Android app.
The move is a smart one …
So long, VCast. Verizon Wireless is relaunching its Android app store as simply “Verizon Apps,” and it’s tapping into Chomp’s powerful app search engine to help power it.
With the change, Verizon is hoping its app store will be more …
Hot social music startup Turntable.fm has finally made its way to mobile devices with the launch of its iPhone app today.
We first heard last week that the startup was working on an iPhone app, and the app itself contains …
Mobile analytics firm Flurry said in a blog post this morning that the ad inventory of mobile apps — all of the space available for ads within apps on iPhone and Android devices — is growing so fast that it …
One of the most popular apps for Android, MoboTap’s Dolphin Browser, landed in Apple’s App Store late last night.
Dolphin first gained recognition as an early alternative to the pre-installed Android browser, and for a long time it was faster …
Just one week after Slide’s Photovine photosharing app officially debuted, it appears that trouble is afoot for the Google-owned social app startup.
Slide founder Max Levchin (pictured right), who also cofounded PayPal, is leaving Slide and Google, All Things Digital …
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake based in Virginia just scared the heck out of millions of people. Tremors shook from Washington, D.C. to New York City and many buildings were evacuated. Standing in the streets, waiting to find out details on …
With the launch of the most recent iOS 5 beta release, Apple is now instructing third-party developers to stop using the unique device identifier (UDID) in iOS devices, which is often used to track user behavior.
The change will disrupt …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain — IBM has been shipping computers for more …
Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Vita portable gaming device will feature built-in 3G (in one model), and the ability to make phone calls using Skype — but don’t call it a smartphone.
The Vita is first and foremost a gaming device, but …
Starbucks will soon begin offering free iPhone apps, just like it does for music from iTunes, at its checkout counters, CNet reports.
The coffee chain will use the same “Pick of the Week” cards it’s been using for free iTunes …
Occipital, the company behind the popular panoramic photo app 360 Panorama, announced today that it has received $7 million in first round funding led by Foundry Group.
The company plans on using the influx of funding to make a big …
