Browsing Tag: Mobile Smart Phones

 John Attanasio, CEO of Toonstar, said his goal is to create “a new Cartoon Network.” Attanasio said the key to Toonstar’s approach is to create animated content that’s “mobile, snackable, interactive.” The startup’s iOS app allows users to customize cartoon characters and then animate them using their own facial expressions. The resulting cartoons can… Read More

Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | Toonstar lets you bring cartoon characters to life thanks to facial recognition

 In the music streaming era, artists want to know how their music is being discovered, who’s listening, where, how many have streamed their release and what else their fans are into, among other things. Today, Spotify is releasing an app for artists that aims to answer these questions, while also giving artists a way to update their profile and connect with listeners while on the go. Read More

Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | Spotify launches an app for artists with real-time streaming data, audience demographics

 Facebook wants to let you create virtual objects in its Oculus Medium sculpting platform or Facebook Spaces VR hangouts and then share them with friends who don’t have a VR headset. Today at Oculus Connect 4, Facebook previewed 3D posts, a new type of News Feed post where users can grab, spin and interact with a 3D object to look at it from all angles. Read More

Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | Facebook ‘3D posts’ let you play with VR objects in News Feed

 Mobile shopping is on the rise, with U.S. consumers now spending nearly 50 minutes in shopping apps per month, or 10 hours per year, according to a new report out this morning from App Annie. Digital-first shopping apps, like those from Amazon, Etsy, Wish and others, are also growing more quickly in terms of total sessions and monthly usage, compared to shopping apps from traditional… Read More

Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | U.S. consumers are spending 10 hours per year in shopping apps

 When we last saw Zenefits, the company essentially handed off one of its initial core selling points — insurance brokerage — to partners. Since that rebrand rolled out, Zenefits seems to be following the sort of drip-drip-drip of updates that many startups trying to create a sort of “home” for a core employee experience utilize. That continues today with the launch… Read More

Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | Zenefits rolls out a performance management tool

 Your Facebook profile used to be the online version of “you”. But over the past year, Bitmoji has usurped Facebook to become the preferred way to share your identity over the web. The Facebook profile assembles a collection of text and real-world photos into a fixed set of poses, making it more of a snapshot of the offline you ported into the digital realm rather than a vision of… Read More

Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | Facebook seriously needs its own Bitmoji

 Twitter is today releasing a new feature called “Happening Now” aimed to make its service more accessible to newcomers by highlighting groups of tweets about a topic, beginning with sports, before expanding to other areas like entertainment and breaking news. If this sounds similar to Twitter’s existing Moments feature….well, it is. Moments, too, offers a way to learn… Read More

Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | Twitter launches ‘Happening Now’ to showcase tweets about events, starting with sports

 After raising upwards of $100,000 via a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year, the team at Iconfactory has brought back one of the more popular third-party Twitter clients, Twitterrific for Mac. Effectively abandoned years ago when Iconfactory shifted its focus to mobile, the Kickstarter was meant to establish demand for a Mac app ahead of devoting developer resources to building it.
Today… Read More

Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | Twitterrific returns to Mac as a customizable Twitter client, but at twice the price of Tweetbot

 “So much of it is stranger than fiction. It’s a great story, I knew that if I didn’t write the book, someone else would and I’d regret it,” says Billy Gallagher, author of “How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story.” The book follows CEO Evan Spiegel from the Stanford dorms where Snap was invented, to rejecting Facebook’s… Read More

Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | Ex-TechCruncher Billy Gallagher announces book on Snapchat’s origin

 Wells Fargo’s ATMs are getting an upgrade. The bank announced today that more than 40 percent – or over 5,000 of its ATMs – will now allow customers to perform transactions without having to pull out their bank card. Instead, users can take advantage of NFC – aka the “tap and pay” technology that powers mobile wallet systems like Apple Pay, Android Pay,… Read More

Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | Over 5,000 Wells Fargo ATMs now support card-free access via Apple Pay and other mobile wallets