Summer months can be slow at a startup. Longer days put a drag not just on business development, but on you and your team members’ daily productivity. How do you push through and get work done, but still take advantage of those coveted half-day Fridays, travel and barbecue?...
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Groupon Updates Its Breadcrumb Payments App With Deal Redemptions, Offline Mode And More Customization Beyond Restaurants 0
July 24th at 8:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIn May of this year, to raise its game against the likes of Square and PayPal, Groupon relaunched its Breadcrumb point-of-sale app — originally conceived as a payments app for restaurants — as a free payments app for all local merchants. Today, the daily deals company is embarking on stage-two of that strategy by adding in a number of new features in an update to make the app, part of the…
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Proven Lets The Un-LinkedIn Apply For Entry-Level Jobs From Mobile With $1M More From Andreessen 1
July 17th at 4:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWhy would you want to apply for a job via mobile? Because it could be filled by the time you get to your computer…if you even have one. That premise has scored Proven $1 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz for its mobile job search and application app. While LinkedIn networks educated professionals, Proven wants to get everyone else a service, hospitality or office admin paycheck.
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Microsoft releases native Outlook Web Apps for iPhone, iPad 1
July 16th at 10:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsMicrosoft on Tuesday launched its official Outlook Web App mail applications on the iOS App Store, with separate downloads optimized for both Apple's iPhone and iPad.
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Microsoft releases Outlook Web app for iPhone and iPad, designed to push Office 365 0
July 16th at 9:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsMicrosoft is releasing another Office app for iOS today, kind of. The new Office Web App for iPhone and iPad is designed for businesses who use Office 365 to access the full functionality of Outlook Web App. Although Microsoft has been supporting a web version of this previously, the software maker has packaged it up into a "native" app for iOS. If your work place subscribes to Office 365 then the benefits are clear, but if it's not then it's useless for those thousands of Exchange servers that run in...
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Microsoft launches Outlook Web App as a native App Store package for iPhone and iPad 0
July 16th at 9:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsMicrosoft today announced the launch of the Outlook Web App for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. You can download them both now directly from Apple’s App Store (iPhone and iPad)....
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Zopim unveils mobile-optimized live chat widget to improve customer support on tablets and smartphones 0
July 5th at 6:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsSingapore-based startup Zopim is responding to the growth in mobile-based Internet browsing after it released a mobile-optimized version of its customer-business chat service to help companies better engage with website visitors and increase conversion rates....
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Here Come The Bespoke Apps: Dolo Is Just For Finding Friends In SF’s Dolores Park 2
July 4th at 4:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsApps don’t have to be for everyone. Development tools, reduced costs, and the trend of nailing a single use case are spawning a generation of homespun applications. The latest is Dolo. Useful for finding friends in San Francisco’s crowded Dolores Park, useless for everyone else. Bespoke apps designed exclusively for little groups of friends, neighborhoods or jokes could be the next big thing.
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GetApp's Web Marketplace For Business Apps Gets a Mobile Section 1
June 25th at 4:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsGetApp, a browser-based marketplace for business software that serves up all sorts of useful information including product reviews, comparison tables, screenshots and pricing information, is launching a new section of its site today for mobile apps....
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The best ways to edit and view Microsoft Office docs on your iPad 2
June 19th at 11:47pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsMicrosoft finally made a native Office app, but it’s for the iPhone. Here’s a roundup of your best options when it comes to accessing and editing your Office documents on an iPad.
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Apple's removal of Voice Memos in iOS 7 beta leaves space for third-party alternatives 0
June 19th at 12:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple made no small amount of changes to its mobile platform with iOS 7, and among those was the removal of its native voice recording app a development that surprised both users and voice memo app developers alike.
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Dispatch adds Pocket, Readability and Passbook support to its already impressive iOS email app 0
June 14th at 9:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThere was a time that (now Dropbox-owned) Mailbox was the swankiest email app in the App Store and, while it quickly passed 1 million downloads within six weeks of launch, a number of equally as nifty competitors have arrived en masse, including Dispatch....
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AT&T will offer an iPhone walkie-talkie service; makes a grab for Nextel’s customers 3
June 10th at 9:28pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsSprint’s Nextel has always been the king of push-to-talk services, but the king is on its deathbed. AT&T hopes to capitalize on its demise with a new PTT app for its most popular smartphone.
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Speek's Conference Call App Lands on Android 0
June 6th at 8:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsA couple of weeks back, we brought you news on Speek, a startup setting out to disrupt the conference call market with simplicity and WebRTC. And today the service lands on Android....
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When to Use the 5 iOS Apps You Never Use 1
June 3rd at 2:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsSome apps just don't get the love they deserve. Whether they're native programs that came installed on your phone or an early purchase that seemed like a good idea, these apps are like guests that overstay their welcome. SEE ALSO: 10 iPhone Apps to Fill Up Your 'Fun' Folder But they don't have to be. Apple is notorious for pre-programmed apps and rigid barriers against customization.
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Geckoboard launches iOS app to help businesses track key data using customizable virtual dashboards 1
May 30th at 7:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsGeckoboard, a company which provides businesses with virtual dashboards for tracking data and real-time analytics on the Web, is launching an iOS app today to help its users stay connected on the move....
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Recordium: A powerful audio-recording iOS app that lets you highlight, tag and edit clips on the fly 0
May 28th at 11:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsIf you need a simple audio-recording app, chances are you’ll use Apple’s stock Voice Memos app and be perfectly happy with it. If you need something a little more feature-rich, however, you’ll maybe want to check out Recordium, which lets you highlight segments as you record, in addition to adding notes, tags, and pictures....
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Briefs makes iOS app design easy and stress-free 1
May 28th at 8:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsPrototypes are important for all sorts of endeavors that pit a creative component against technical requirements—including, of course, software development. Before full-blown development starts, simplified models of a product help insure that all the parties involved are on the same page from the very outset, instead of finding out many months—and dollars—later that everybody was running in a different direction....
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Speek easy: This startup wants to disrupt the conference call market with simplicity and WebRTC 0
May 22nd at 5:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThere were somewhere in the region of 45 billion minutes of audio-only conference calls in North America in 2012, a stat that bodes well for the future of Speek....
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Scanner Pro From Readdle Now Detects Page Borders Automatically 0
May 21st at 5:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsScanner Pro from Readdle is a super useful app that allows you to scan documents, receipts, and more and then store them digitally on your iOS devices. With its latest update, Scanner Pro got even easier with real-time border detection technology, which automatically finds page borders for you.
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Salesforce’s enterprise social network adds file sharing capabilities to its mobile iOS offering 0
May 15th at 5:48am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsSalesforce.com has unveiled a new feature for its Chatter Mobile product. Called Files for Chatter Mobile, users can share files with other people right on the go using their iOS device....
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Loop Makes It Easy To Conduct Real-Time Surveys Via iPad 1
May 14th at 11:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsLoop co-founder and CEO Rajit Marwah argued that “surveys and reviews are everywhere” — but they’re often ignored or delayed. With his new startup, on the other hand, Marwah said he’s giving businesses a way to create and conduct those surveys instantly. When a business downloads the Loop iOS app, they can use one of the app’s survey templates (the templates are based on business type, such…
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Groupon Squares Up To Rivals With Groupon POS, An iPad App And Dashboard For On-Site, Mobile Payments 0
May 13th at 4:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGroupon is once again expanding its portfolio of mobile payment services, putting it in closer competition with the likes of Square and PayPal’s here targeting local merchants: today it has released Groupon POS, which appears to be an iPad-specific version of its mobile payments service aimed at local merchants, working as a dashboard to make and track payments.
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3 Must-Have Geolocation Apps 1
May 9th at 8:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThey're the services turning your physical location into valuable data — and using that data to offer you a variety of services. Love them for their convenience or hate them for their invasion of privacy, geolocation applications are making a big push for your attention. And after a year of very public privacy failures from services such as Girls Around Me, Highlight and Skout, the industry and consumers are both looking for clear-cut winners.
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Facebook Pages Manager Gets Photo Filters, Emoji & Stickers 0
May 9th at 5:29am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsFacebook Pages Manager for iOS just got a big version 2.0 update that brings a number of performance improvements and new features. Facebook says the app has been rebuilt to offer a smoother, faster experience, while photo filters and support for emoji and stickers have been added.