According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Ray Ozzie’s startup, Talko, has raised $4 million to fund the development of its mobile communications apps and services. Little is known about the company except that it is developing communications software and tools for social interaction. Ozzie talked earlier this year about how the company, formerly known as Cocomo, will […]
Posted on December 3rd, 2012 by admin
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Microsoft is targeting the growing mobile workforce with a 15 percent hike in license fees directed primarily at companies that have employees who use smartphones and other mobile devices in their work. According to Mary Jo Foley, the new licensing agreement goes into effect December 1 for customers with the user option for its “client […]
Posted on November 27th, 2012 by admin
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Twilio was founded four years ago with the goal of creating a scalable API that would provide developers with an easy way to add SMS and calling tools to their applications. The company has grown quickly over the last two years and is now servicing 40 countries and has signed on over 250K developers. Its […]
Posted on November 9th, 2012 by admin
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Wrike, the increasingly popular social project management and collaboration platform, just announced the re-launch of its mobile apps for iPhone and Android. In addition, Wrike also launched a new mobile web app for all other platforms. It’s worth noting that this isn’t Wrike’s first foray into mobile apps. The company released a set of iPhone, […]
Posted on November 5th, 2012 by admin
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Even as data usage has skyrocketed, U.S. carriers have remained stubbornly wedded to post-paid plans that offer users a surprisingly limited menu of pricing options. Yes, we’re talking about those monthly subscriptions that easily reach above $100 a month — even if you hardly touch voice calls or if you always come in far beneath […]
Posted on October 30th, 2012 by admin
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Telerik has developed a service called Icenium to automate the otherwise tedious task of using traditional integrated development environments (IDE) for mobile app development. For decades, the IDE has served as the basis for app development. They are associated with a single or multiple programming languages. Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse and NetBeans are all examples of […]
Posted on October 29th, 2012 by admin
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The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) office, part of the Department of Homeland Security, recently revealed that it will be adopting iOS devices from a variety of service providers for its 17,676 users. It’s a win for Apple in terms of landing a sizeable government client, but also a significant vote of confidence for […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2012 by admin
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Netbiscuits, the mobile development platform that has worked with the likes of eBay, Google, Coca-Cola and 15,000 other developers on their mobile web services, is ramping up its game as smartphone usage continues to accelerate worldwide. The company today is announcing that it has raised $27 million in a Series C round. This also marks […]
Posted on October 17th, 2012 by admin
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Boston and Israel-based Perfecto Mobile, the makers of a testing and monitoring platform for mobile apps and websites, is today announcing it has secured $15 million in a Series C round of financing. The new funding was led by Globespan Capital Partners, and saw participation from existing investors Carmel, Vertex and the Waisbein Fund. The company’s success is something of a […]
Posted on October 16th, 2012 by admin
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A mobile back-end as a service (MBaaS) called Kii Cloud officially opened for developers today, boasting 25 million end users and a group of distribution partners, including NTT docomo. Kii Cloud, in development for the past two years, marries APIs and SDKs with a proprietary back end that abstracts the complexity of building servers. MBaaS is more often a […]
Posted on October 11th, 2012 by admin
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