PayQwiq now available in all Tesco stores across the UK

PayQwiq now available in all Tesco stores across the UK

Tesco is making it faster and easier for customers to pay for their shopping by extending the availability of its mobile payments app, PayQwiq, to every Tesco store in the UK. This follows positive feedback from customers during the initial roll-out. PayQwiq, available for both Android and iOS smartphones, allows customers to pay and also collect […]

Cheetah Mobile’s News Republic Launches New ‘Made for Samsung’ App

Cheetah Mobile’s News Republic Launches New ‘Made for Samsung’ App

Cheetah Mobile, the leading mobile utility and content app developer, announced an exclusive “Made for Samsung” app release of its News Republic mobile news app specifically designed for Samsung mobile products. Available from January 18 in the Samsung Galaxy Apps store, the “News Republic for Samsung” app introduces several exciting new features: Text-to-speech: Article pages now […]

Roku Updates Mobile App to Make Navigation Easier

Roku Updates Mobile App to Make Navigation Easier

Roku has revamped its app for both iOS and Android devices to include new look, simpler navigation and updated on screen remote. The new navigation bar sits at the bottom of the Roku app and enables the user to view and launch installed streaming channels, browse what’s on, use the remote, and share photos and […]

Simian launches new app aimed at curating the best upcoming and trending digital content for creatives

Simian launches new app aimed at curating the best upcoming and trending digital content for creatives

Jay Brooks and Brian Atton, founders of media-sharing solution, Simian, and Michael Chiavetta, co-founder of content consultancy, KIMBA, officially announce the launch of their unique content app, Dank. The app, inspired by the name of online viral media called ‘Dank Memes’, has been developed to curate and define the best online content before it trends. […]

Snapchat Testing New Ad Features to Improve Ecommerce and Lead-Gen Marketing

Snapchat Testing New Ad Features to Improve Ecommerce and Lead-Gen Marketing

Snapchat has been steadily introducing ad products during the last couple of years, involving everything from shoppable ads to in-the-feed videos and a full-blown API. The diversification of tools is what many big-budget marketers—who need particular utilities on the mobile platform to do their jobs well—want to see. And such moves should intrigue revenue-minded investors […]

Uber Can Now Start Trips Based on Your Calendar

Uber Can Now Start Trips Based on Your Calendar

Uber has introduced a new feature that syncs with your calendar to easily add the addresses of any meetings or appointments as an intended destination on the its app. The Calendar Shortcuts feature will provide the user with a ‘shortcut’ to the address, at the bottom of the screen, when opening the Uber app. The […]

Hotels.com Introduces In-app Mobile Concierge

Hotels.com Introduces In-app Mobile Concierge

Hotels.com has introduced new mobile concierge feature to its app. The Hotels.com Concierge, powered by Button Marketplace, connects consumers to local products and services on the day their hotel stay begins. The concierge, currently only available on iOS, leverages location data to offer customers access to services such as Uber’s transportation, Delivery.com’s on-demand food delivery, […]

WeChat’s Mini Programs Take Aim at Traditional Apps

WeChat’s Mini Programs Take Aim at Traditional Apps

On January 9, Tencent’s messaging app WeChat launched its new “miniprogram” feature, called Xioachengxu in Chinese. The service, built on the open HTML5 standard, allows WeChat’s 768 million users to access miniprograms instantaneously, without having to leave WeChat to navigate to an app store, download or install anything. Here’s how a miniprogram might work. A […]

Geico Introduces Virtual AI Assistant to App

Geico Introduces Virtual AI Assistant to App

Geico, the second largest auto insurer in the US, has introduced a virtual AI assistant to its mobile app that aims to help the company’s policyholders with all their insurance needs. The virtual assistant, called Kate, will help its customers navigate the Geico Mobile app through voice commands and ‘will respond with quick, personalised answers […]

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