MVP 90% of startups fail. They can fail at any point along the way to their grand product launch and even after – especially after – when a product just didn’t catch on the way the creators intended. If there is fear in your heart about your app launch, the “lean startup” method is the… Read More »
Facebook has unveiled new tools which will make use of artificial intelligence to identify members that may be at risk of killing themselves and help prevent the suicides. While the site already has self-harm prevention features, they rely on users to spot and report friends’ problematic posts. Now, the company is testing AI tech that… Read More »
No one is unbeknownst to the fact that the public sector has always been later adopters of technology and same holds true as it comes to its adoption of mobile technology. However going by the various benefits offered by this technology it’s for all the good reasons that non-profits and the public sector organizations must… Read More »
ANDI, the African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation, announced today that it has initiated the implementation of an integrated Cell Phone App (Application) to boost the diagnosis of neglected diseases at point of care in Africa, in collaboration with the Chinese EASE-Medtrend Biotech. The project uses an Integrated Mobile Diagnostics Readout called the EASE… Read More »
These days, mobile applications exist for almost everything. You can download mobile applications for anything from shopping to playing card games, and enterprises are not exempt either, with more and more businesses developing custom applications to help employees complete a whole range of certain tasks. As a business owner, you may have considered the possibility… Read More »
Santa Monica-based Ring, the developer of the smartphone connected, video doorbell has raised $61.2M in a big, Series C funding round that was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with participation from existing investor Sir Richard Branson. Ring said the new funding will let it expand its line of smart video doorbells, and further… Read More »
GIPHY, the company best known for all those cool GIFs posted all over the internet, just closed a Series C funding round in the amount of $55 million placing the post-money valuation at a cool $300 million. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst Partners, RRE, Betaworks, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, CAA and… Read More »
Instagram has now officially introduced multi-account support inside the app, with which users can now maintain more than one account on the same device. The new feature will be available in the new version 7.15 of the app, which will allow users to have up to five accounts logged in. According to the Instagram Blog, users will need… Read More »
There is good news for WhatsApp users—the popular messaging app will not charge a fee after one year of use. “For many years, we have asked some people to pay a fee for using WhatsApp after their first year. As we have grown, we have found that this approach hasn’t worked well,” the company said… Read More »
If you bought a few apps for your new gadgets over the holidays you are not alone. On Wednesday Apple announced that customers bought $1.1 billion worth of apps and in-app purchases in the two weeks between December 20 and January 3 alone. They also set a new single-day spending record, dropping $144 million on… Read More »
