Tag: apps

July 12, 2017

U.K.-based fintech startup Curve has raised $10 million in a series A round from Santander InnoVentures, Investec, Connect Ventures, Oxford Capital, and a host of individual investors. Founded out of London in 2015, Curve offers a mobile app and bank card that aggregates all your existing bank cards into […]

July 11, 2017

Online retail giant Amazon has secured approval to stock and sell food and groceries in India, potentially expanding its business in the fast-growing economy where it is in a pitched battle with home-grown rival Flipkart. Amazon confirmed winning government approval […]

July 7, 2017

Chipmaker Qualcomm will ask the U.S. International Trade Commission to bar Apple from selling some iPhones and iPads in the United States that use chips made by competitor Intel on the grounds that the devices infringe on six Qualcomm patents. […]

July 5, 2017

Samsung Electronics is expected to report its best-ever quarterly profit in the second quarter, with soaring memory chip sales pushing it past Intel as the biggest semiconductor maker by revenue for the first time. The world’s largest memory chip maker is the […]

June 29, 2017

There aren’t many people currently using virtual reality yet, but that doesn’t mean Google isn’t looking at how to advertise to them. Google debuted a new project Wednesday that’s exploring ways to show online ads in virtual reality. The new […]

June 28, 2017

There’s still plenty of money to be made in apps. According to analyst firm App Annie, the app economy will be worth $6.3 trillion by 2021 — that’s a 380% jump from the $1.3 trillion app market of 2016. In […]

June 8, 2017

Amazon has been ramping up its small loans business, with the company announcing today that it has loaned more than $1 billion to around 20,000 merchants on its platform in the past 12 months alone. This figure represents a third of the […]

May 23, 2017

Nokia and Apple have announced that they have settled an ongoing intellectual property (IP) spat, with the duo signing a “multi-year” patent license. Nokia and Apple settled a two-year legal battle back in 2011 over license fees for patents that Nokia […]

May 19, 2017

Salesforce.com Inc (CRM.N) allayed concerns about a slowing pace of growth after it reported quarterly deferred revenue that came above its estimate on Thursday. The company’s deferred revenue rose 26 percent to $5.04 billion in the first quarter ended April […]

May 16, 2017

Prezi, the Hungarian startup behind the popular presentation software of the same name, has acquired Latvian infographics and data visualization company Infogram. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded out of Riga in 2012, Infogram offers a slick WYSIWYG […]

May 5, 2017

The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into Uber Technologies Inc’s use of a software tool that helped its drivers evade local transportation regulators, two sources familiar with the situation said. Uber has acknowledged the software, known […]

May 4, 2017

Facebook Inc shares dipped from a record high on Wednesday after the world’s biggest online social network warned investors once again that its advertising revenue growth would likely come down from current high levels. The warning appeared to outweigh Facebook’s […]

April 25, 2017

U.S. ride-hailing app Uber told Europe’s top court on Monday that it was a digital service, not a transport service, and that a French law clearly targeted online taxi services, in its latest European legal battle with the taxi industry. […]

April 20, 2017

Microsoft is lining up a bid to buy Israeli cloud-monitoring and analytics startup Cloudyn in a deal thought to be worth around $60 million, according to a report (in Hebrew) in local Israeli business publication the Calcalist. Founded in 2012, Cloudyn’s software-as-a-service […]

April 12, 2017

Ride-hailing services company Lyft attracted a number of new investors in its latest round of fundraising, including famed private equity firm KKR (KKR.CO-L-P), AllianceBernstein (AWF, -0.39%), Baillie Gifford, and Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board. Existing investors Rakuten (RKUNF, +0.69%) […]

April 6, 2017

Fears that automation will kill more jobs continues to grow. An estimated 5 million U.S. factory jobs have evaporated since 2000 and most of those (88%) were lost to increased productivity due to automation, according to a study by Ball […]

March 7, 2017

LoopMe, a digital advertising firm that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize mobile video advertising, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Impulse VC and Harbert European Growth Capital, with participation from Holzbrinck Ventures and Open Ocean Capital. […]

March 2, 2017

Electric vehicle (EV) charging network ChargePoint has raised $82 million in a round of funding led by German automotive giant Daimler, with participation from existing investors that include BMW i Ventures, Linse Capital, Rho Capital Partners, and Braemar Energy Ventures. Founded in […]

February 21, 2017

In a world that has grown increasingly dependent on mobile technology, you should consider having a customized mobile application for your business. In 2014, 60 percent of online traffic came from mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. By 2016, that figure had […]

February 21, 2017

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich is tired of hearing how his company missed the mobile revolution, at least for the first wave of smartphones and the 3G and early 4G wireless networks that they relied on. After analyzing what went wrong, […]