US ride-hailing firm Lyft has raised $600m in new round of financing at a $7.5bn valuation. The investors in the funding round include KKR, Baillie Gifford, Alliance Bernstein, Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) ...
Tags: Lyft, self-driving car
German fashion retailer Zalando says it had a very successful first half of 2014. Sales surged 29.5 percent to EUR 1,047 million in the first six months of 2014 against EUR 809 million in the corresponding period of 2013, according to a ...
According to Korean media, the Andriod platdorm crossed 93.4% market share in Korean market, ranking first all over the wolrd, 19.1% higher than in Asian market. Insiders said that due to the three domestic handset makers Samsung, LG and ...
Tags: Andriod Platdorm, iOS
HomeShop18, India’s leading virtual retailer is now available on Android Tablets and iPad. The enhanced app - HS18- has been specially customized to suit the browsing experience on tablets and to provide an awesome shopping ...
Tags: HomeShop18, iPad, Tablets
The days of shrugging off Twitter may soon be over. Some 200 million users strong, the site is already one of the most prominent social networks, but going public could give it the muscle to become the next Facebook or Apple, one analyst ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The combined value of paid apps, app-enabled purchases of goods and services, and in-app advertising is expected to double to $151 billion in the U.S. by 2017, AppNation said today. According to the research firm, the largest segment of ...
Tags: APP Economy, APP, Computer Products
Facebook is gearing up for a new project to simplify its advertising platform, making it easier for marketers to decide how to place ads across the site. One of the plan's major goals is to reduce redundancies in the 27 different types of ...
Tags: Facebook, Advertising, Marketers
Mobile advertising platform Medialets' founder Eric Litman has advised start-ups seeking to monetise mobile applications and services to "follow where the dollars are, not where you think they might be". Speaking at DEMO Europe in Moscow ...
Tags: Mobile Advertising, Medialets
Google’s Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event in San Francisco. Google also announced several APIs that will let developers add more capabilities to their Android apps, including in ...
Google's Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event began in San Francisco. Google also announced several APIs that will let developers add more capabilities to their Android apps, including in ...
Tags: Google, Android, Computer Products
Amazon.com is continuing the global expansion of its Appstore by announcing that developers can submit their apps for sale in another 200 countries around the world. The latest batch of countries include Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Blue Coat has identified its Top 5 bring your own device (BYOD) traffic disruptors – activities and content sites that take up valuable WAN and internet bandwidth and disrupt the performance of mission-critical enterprise ...
Tags: Apple, apps, apps downloads, Blue Coat, broadband, BYOD, iPad, iPhone, WAN
Computerworld - Apple today boasted that its iOS App Store has passed the 40-billion-download mark, and posted a record two billion downloads last month alone. Apple's December number bolsters the notion that across-the-board app ...
Tags: iOS, App Store, Android smartphone
Tech gadgets have proven to be popular Christmas gifts this year, leading the last week of 2012 to see the most new device activations and app downloads in iOS and Android history, a new report has revealed. Flurry, a mobile analytics ...
Tags: 2012, new device activations, app downloads, iOS, Android
Smartphone and tablet owners downloaded a record 1.76 billion iOS and Android apps during the week of Dec. 25 to Dec. 31, a mobile analytics company said Wednesday. According to San Francisco-based Flurry, which projected total downloads ...
Tags: Smartphone, tablet, iOS, Android apps