A pretty, elegant iPad app for … wait, spreadsheets? Seriously?

Spreadsheets are the awkward, unpopular Mary Katherine Gallaghers of software. A new app, Permanent, turns them into superstars.

Yahoo is coming for your iPads, via your TVs

Yahoo has just launched the newest version of IntoNow, its TV companion app, and it’s bringing a boatload of new features to tablet and smartphone devices.

IntoNow is the media-centric company’s television sidekick “experience.” It brings avid TV fans a …

Reading Rainbow is back! Our in-depth video interview with LeVar Burton

Reading Rainbow is making a big comeback, and it’s skipping your TV in favor of the other screen in your living room: your iPad.

In an in-depth chat in VentureBeat’s San Francisco studio, Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton talked about …

You’ll never believe how LinkedIn built its new iPad app (exclusive)

Guess how much of LinkedIn’s new iPad app is actually mobile web and not native.

Go ahead — guess. We’ve had a lot of fun asking people to guess this over the past couple days. They’ll start with 40 percent …

LinkedIn’s surprisingly sexy new iPad app proves this company gets mobile

LinkedIn has just popped its iPad app onto the iTunes App Store, and you’ll be shocked at how slick, pared-down, and beautifully designed it is.

This is the company’s first foray into tablets, and the wait has paid off. The …

Khan Academy releases iPad app, mobile education is upon us

The Khan Academy released its iPad application today, bringing its new wave of education to the mobile world.

Currently, the Khan Academy has more than 3,000 videos of all different subjects in its education warehouse. With the app, parents, teachers, …

Say hello (and bonjour) to the new Flipboard for iPad

Flipboard today launched a new version of its wildly popular social app for iPad. Company reps tell us the new app is even “more personal and more beautiful” than before.

Also today, the rep continued, the startup is introducing “more …

Hookflash gives you free video calls to LinkedIn contacts (exclusive)

Hookflash, an iPad app maker looking to make workplace communication streamlined and more productive, has pivoted to focus on connecting you with your LinkedIn contacts. The company is releasing its inaugural app in March, and it will help you communicate …

UK Prime Minister is getting his own iPad app to help run the country

Leading a nation is a tough gig, but soon there may an app for that, too.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, a huge iPad fan, is having a special iPad app made for his particular country-running needs.

According to a …

Kayak releases updated and unified iPad and iPhone app, takes on TripIt

Travel search site Kayak is releasing a new unified iPad and iPhone app today, replacing its standalone iPad app and adding a sleek itinerary-consolidation feature that seems poised to take on TripIt.

This is actually a major update that will …

Zite’s new custom magazine iPhone app raises the standards for reading news on the go

Building on the success of its iPad app, Zite is rolling out a new iPhone-optimized version of its personalized news app today.

Zite lets you build a custom digital magazine by pulling in shared links from bookmarking and social sites, …

Box spruces up iOS apps with photo and search functions

Cloud storage company Box updated its iPhone and iPad apps today, realizing that the world outside the office is no longer an oyster, but a giant second office.

Box has seen people using mobile devices to access the company’s file …

eBay targets couch potatoes with new iPad app feature

Online auction site eBay is launching a new feature for its mobile applications today to help boost purchases from customers while they’re on the couch watching TV.

The move is part of eBay’s new “Couch Commerce” strategy. Users that open …

Jetpac takes you on a guided world tour, as seen by your Facebook friends (exclusive)

Jetpac debuts Tuesday as a Facebook friend-propelled rocket belt, taking you on a visual journey around the world for your travel inspiration.

The startup has developed a travel magazine-like iPad application, slated for release before the end of the year, …

Yahoo reinvents TV-tagging app IntoNow, releases it on the iPad

Television-tagging application IntoNow has launched for the iPad, and it now matches tagged content to real-time news and updates, parent company Yahoo announced today at a press event in Sunnyvale.

IntoNow is the iPhone and Android application that uses patented …