Segment.io launches iOS and Android SDKs to enable every app analytics solution — all at once

"Mobile analytics is a brand-new field, and no clear winner has emerged yet," Segment.io cofounder Peter Reinhardt says. "So we made it incredibly easy to try them all."

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.

Magzter passes 10M users, moves to NY, and signs up 20 new titles, including National Enquirer, Shape

The number one magazine provider in Apple's Newstand has now added 20 new magazine from American Media to its stable of 1,800 magazines for digital sale.

Google Music ‘All Access’ iOS app is coming within weeks

Just a few weeks after announcing its music subscription service, Google will be bringing it to iOS.

Twitter acquisition Crashlytics launches Android version to help developers build better apps

The company, which launched on iOS just over a year ago to "deobfuscate" application crashes, helps developers find what's happening when their mobile apps freeze or unexpectedly quit. Besides Twitter, companies like Square, Kayak, Yelp, Path, and Yammer use Crashlytics.

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.

Android’s market share is a ‘joke,’ and ‘Apple owns the high end’ of the smartphone market (interview)

Android's market share is a joke, and most tech writers aren't getting the punchline.

Apple’s Tim Cook: Not at all worried about Android market share (he says)

Apple CEO Tim Cook is not at all worried about Android's increasing market share -- or so he says.

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.

Jigsaw puzzles are cool again in Puzzle Axe: a game of monsters and music

The creators of Puzzle Axe explain what makes the game so special and different from the other puzzle games out there.

OttoCat makes Apple’s app store useable again for indie developers — and app buyers

In the good old days, Apple's app store had a few thousand apps, and you could probably browse all of them to find what you wanted. That lasted about 30 seconds.

Evernote announces reminders as forgetful everywhere breathe easier

The popular note taking and organization solutions provider Evernote announced today that reminders have been added to its product offerings.

Hooked Media turns in an entirely new take on app recommendation — one that Apple can’t kill

App recommendation engines are getting booted from Apple's app store because they suck, according to a new player in the app-finding business. But Hooked Media has come up with an entirely new take on app recommendation that has two unique qualities.

Facebook’s newly acquired mobile tool welcomes all developers, even those who hate Facebook

Just days after landing on Facebook's campus, the founder of Parse says there will be no changes to his business -- and that means Facebook is increasingly a multiplatform development tool.

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.