Samsung has made it clear that it wants to get its Bixby virtual assistant on nearly every product it makes, but it hasn’t forgotten about the AI’s smartphone roots. To that end, the company dedicated a corner of its cavernous CES booth to a surprising new Bixby feature: the ability to identify your food and […]
Spanish automaker Seat has linked up with Saba, a developer of urban mobility solutions and parking management specialist, to create an app that enables users to have shopping delivered directly to their parked car. With Droppit, available on both iOS and Android, users are able to place a shopping order at a virtual supermarket and have it […]
App Store customers around the world made apps and games a bigger part of their holiday season in 2017 than ever before, culminating in $300 million in purchases made on New Year’s Day 2018. During the week starting on Christmas Eve, a record number of customers made purchases or downloaded apps from the App Store, […]
Didi Chuxing, the ride-sharing giant of China and likely the most valuable startup in the world, just bought a controlling stake in 99, a leading ride-sharing app in Brazil. According to Reuters (citing a repot in Valor Economico, a leading financial newspaper in Brazil), the deal values 99 at $1 billion. Didi already had a […]
Mobile agency Fetch is counter-suing Uber for non-payment of invoices relating to ad placements that Uber claims were fraudulent. Uber had previously sued Fetch in September of last year in a California court, claiming it had been billed for non-existent, non-viewable or fraudulent ads, and for failing to pass rebates and commissions back to Uber. In that […]
Audio fitness app Aaptiv has announced an Apple Watch integration. Aaptiv provides unlimited access to more than 2,500 audio-based fitness classes, programs, and challenges created by expert trainers. The app has garnered more than 200,000 paying members over the past two and a half years. Subscription to the app costs $14.99 (£11.99) a month on […]
An app has been launched to help men check themselves for testicular cancer. Launched by The Oddballs Foundation, the Oddballs Check Yourself app encourages users to check themselves via a video which will feature a different celebrity each month. The first video comes from ex-footballer Alan Shearer and includes funny dialogue, easy to follow […]
Facebook is running a small test to let users post their Instagram Stories directly as a WhatsApp Status. The new feature will let users post decorated photos, videos and GIFs on WhatsApp, which will disappear after 24 hours. “An Instagram Story posted as a WhatsApp Status also becomes encrypted like the rest of WhatsApp,” TechCrunch […]
UC Browser, a mobile browser owned by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has become more popular than Google’s Chrome in some of Asia’s fastest-growing markets, according to the Wall Street Journal. Citing data from web analytics firm StatCounter, the paper reported that millions of people in India, Indonesia and other emerging markets getting online for […]
Uber is reportedly weighing up the idea of a subscription model for its food delivery subsidiary, UberEats. In an interview with Business Insider, UberEats UK country manager Toussaint Wattinne confirmed that the company has already been testing subscriptions. “We are constantly testing,” he said. “We’ve actually run a few tests within specific cohorts in a […]