Dating app Hinge recently pivoted from swiping to “stories,” in order to help people find real relationships. That focus on authenticity, however, seems to stand in contrast to a project the company has been testing: Audrey, a personal assistant who will message your matches for you and schedule your dates. Audrey’s …
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PBS KIDS debuts a new channel and live TV service, available via web and mobile
The way children watch TV is changing – shifting away from the big screen in the living room to tablets and other mobile devices. In order to better cater to the needs of this more digital audience, PBS has now launched a new 24/7 TV channel, PBS KIDS, which is available on …
Read More »App Store Optimization Heats Up: Appnique Debuts New Service To Help Developers Get Their Apps Found
Seattle-based Appnique, a new startup from mobile industry veteran Jai Jaisimha, is focused on helping app developers achieve higher rankings and make their mobile applications more discoverable in both the iOS and Android app stores. It’s the latest company to target the ASO (App Store Optimization) space specifically, a new breed of optimization which …
Read More »BT creates 500 new customer service jobs in England and Wales
A telecommunications giant is creating 500 new customer service jobs across England and Wales. BT said the new roles would be based at its contact centres in Swansea, Warrington, Doncaster and Accrington. In January the conglomerate announced 1,000 new posts promising more of its consumer customer calls to be dealt …
Read More »T-Mobile’s Digits calling service is designed to make phone numbers device agnostic
T-Mobile’s pitch is simple, “We’re dragging the phone number into the internet age.” The actual functionality is a bit trickier, which is why the carrier looked to do a little bit of analyst handholding and a consumer Twitter QA (at 10:30AM PT today) ahead of launch. The underlying idea is to tie …
Read More »Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling automatic email forwarding
Following Yahoo’s September announcement of a data breach affecting 500 million user accounts, the company has made it more difficult for Yahoo Mail users to transition to another email service. At the beginning of October, Yahoo disabled an email forwarding feature, which would allow users to automatically redirect incoming emails sent …
Read More »Kaspersky eyes launching a real-time back-up service for social media leavers
Veteran security firm Kaspersky Lab is looking at launching a real-time encrypted back-up service for social media users to store their data outside the walled garden of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google+. At this point it’s testing how much appetite there might be for such a service — launching a website …
Read More »Samsung’s latest acquisition could pave the way for its own iMessage-type service
This is a week for Samsung acquisitions, it seems. Fresh from announcing plans to buy audio and auto systems maker Harman for a cool $8 billion, the Korean giant revealed on Wednesday that it is also acquiring NewNet Communication Technologies, a messaging company, in an undisclosed deal. The company might not be …
Read More »Groupon Acquires OrderUp Food Delivery Service
Groupon appears to be readying itself to expand into food delivery and take on services like GrubHub. Today, the company announced its acquisition of food-delivery service OrderUp and detailed its plans to expand into the $70 billion sector. Founded in 2009, the Baltimore-based OrderUp is live in 40 cities across the country, many of which …
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