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The new lineup includes a fitness wearable for everybody called Fitbit Versa, a children's wearable called Fitbit Ace, and an app feature the company calls «female health -LSB-...]

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• Pusher, a London - based realtime API company that helps developers add communication and collaboration features to their apps, raised $ 8 million in Series A funding.

Users love the customizable app features that allow them to pick and choose the functions they need for their companies.

After migrating the fabled Canadian Tire money to its app, the company loaded up its mobile interface with all sorts of features, including store - level inventory checks, e-commerce capabilities and links to a lot of granular product information.

While the app is free to use for browsing potential matches, the company charges a subscription fee for access to premium features like messaging.

There's also mention by the company that «there are still a few features in the Dropcam app that aren't in the Nest app yet.

It's the first time a disappearing messaging feature has been available on the platform, and it's a clear indication that the company will continue to compete with Snapchat, the app that brought disappearing messages to the forefront.

HEALTH BENEFITS PLATFORM INTEGRATES CLAIMS DATA TO IMPROVE RECOMMENDATION ACCURACY: Castlight Health, a US healthcare information company, has added a new feature to its Wellbeing Navigation app for employees that uses claims data to provide more accurate recommendations for health solutions.

The company is eliminating a feature from its app that tracked customers for five minutes after they finished an Uber ride, a creepy data collection practice that privacy advocates hated.

While its apps use the freemium model — a no - charge download with in - app purchases to access bonus features or accessories — the company has deployed measures to avoid the kind of kiddie overspending that garners bad press.

As desktop use, traditional ads and virtual payments on apps and games like those published by Zynga slow down, many analysts say the company's mobile business, commerce features and new external ad network will more than make up for it.

While its privacy - focused features have also drawn journalists, politicians, and privacy enthusiasts to the app, the company has also faced criticism when groups such as ISIS began using it.

Twitter's purchase of Periscope, a live video app, for $ 86 million in 2015, and the embedding of Periscope's features into Twitter itself at the end of 2016 showed that the company was serious about giving users a whole new kind of content experience.

Selling With a supermajority of iOS apps being offered for free — more than 90 percent, Blau says — companies have turned en masse to a business model in which customers pay for extra features.

Fell's employees also chat together company - wide via Yammer (free basic option, $ 3 per user per month for advanced features, security and support), an enterprise social network app that's like Facebook, only for work.

Many of Sunrise users liked the calendar app's ability to work with business productivity features of different company's products, like Google (goog) and business software company Asana.

On Thursday, the enterprise software company debuted new features it claims will help companies track how people are using voice apps (or «skills,» as Amazon calls them).

But the company's recent decision to create the #GoLive video feature directly in the Twitter app, to compete with Facebook Live and YouTube Live, has many questioning Periscope's future, particularly with the massive difference in active monthly users, Twitter with 328 million in comparison to Periscope's 4.3 million users.

And, most crucially, it allows for secure, two - way messaging with people outside the company — a feature lacking in many competing apps such as Slack, HipChat, and Convo.

It might include an Amazon shopping app or other features tied in tightly to the products the company sells.

A technical issue prevented Facebook (fb) from properly filtering posts on Marketplace — the company's Craigslist - like feature that allows users to buy and sell items within the Messenger app.

The company has been increasing foot traffic with heartier food options (and a loyalty rewards program) and using its app and mobile - ordering feature to speed up service.

The company announced its latest upgrade on Wednesday, which McCue says takes the customization features of the app to a whole new level, by adding what he calls «smart magazines.»

The Uber Rent feature, which is in partnership with car - sharing company Getaround, will let users find cars for short - term rentals using the Uber app.

To better meet the demand, Nestler says that the company upgraded its driver app and GPS features.

The company has overhauled its app and added automated ad buying tools in an effort to hold onto users and advertisers as bigger rival Facebook Inc introduces Snapchat - like features to Instagram.

While Nintendo CEO Tatsumi Kimishima told investors the company's second game will feature a popular Nintendo character, this first offering is a communications app.

On Tuesday, the company also announced Facebook Watch, a feature that allows people to watch and participate in group chats about videos, which is similar to another popular app called Houseparty.

That will not be an easy task, especially as the competition has increased from other tech companies such as Facebook, which has replicated several popular features of Snapchat into its apps and services.

Line, the messaging app company, has been the most successful new entrant with its Uber - like ride - hailing service, but Japanese taxi companies have adapted to the competition by bringing on - demand features their services, as the Financial Times recently reported.

During the company's F8 keynote, Mark Zuckerberg announced that it's going to «completely redesign Messenger» to give its users a «simple and fast experience,» following years of jamming the app with superfluous features like video games.

Although there is no evidence that Uber used its access to take advantage of the iPhone features, the revelation that the app has access to privileged Apple code raises important questions for a company already under investigation for other controversial business practices.

Then, at Facebook's F8 developer conference in April, the company announced that its Messenger app would soon feature chatbots from brands including CNN and 1 -800-Flowers.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement that Facebook will launch a new set of features in their existing app at the company's developer conference in San Jose on Tuesday.

By 2017, it was receiving so many phone orders that the company decided to release an app with digital ordering features to help manage demand.

«We only access your microphone if you have given our app permission and if you are actively using a specific feature that requires audio,» the company wrote on its blog.

After discussing how Facebook is going to improve its handling of users» privacy and security, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference that the company is adding a dating feature to its mobile app.

There are many applications of the tool, including testing new Uber features by the company's employees, launching marketing initiatives, preventing fraudulent activities, protecting drivers from physical harm, and deterring riders from using the Uber app in ways that violate Uber's terms of service.

A former Google executive credited with creating the search company's simple, colorful aesthetic, Ms. Mayer turned her attention at Yahoo to beating Google at search, creating new mobile apps, and turning Yahoo into a video powerhouse with television - style broadcasts featuring big - name talent like Katie Couric.

The technology shows how far Facebook is willing to go as part of its aggressive strategy to reach into new areas beyond social networking, often by rapidly acting to mimic the most successful features of rival companies» apps.

The company will post a new feature on the top of every Facebook user's news feed with a list of the apps they have used and an easy way to revoke the app's access.

«In the coming months, privacy controls that are now in 20 places on Facebook's app will be merged into a single page, and will include what the company says will be easier - to - comprehend features that explain how the company is using a person's data,» The Washington Post writes.

The tech giant has shown a willingness to mimic the most successful features of rival companies» apps.

Allstate provides the best technology features among renters insurance companies, offering its customers access to two key mobile apps: Allstate Mobile and Digital Locker.

The company says that any user who downloaded an app or used the sign - on feature had to agree to a permissions screen that said, «This app will receive the following info: your public profile, friend list, birthday, groups, current city, photos, and personal description and your friends's birthdays, photos, and likes.»

The IDC Study features ten emerging companies that are innovating and excelling with a variety of mobile and wireless technology solutions including: mobile marketing, couponing, analytics, smart grid enablement, TV and video on demand — even for traditional phones, mobile money services, mobile enterprise Apps and product life - cycle management.

A company representative told Benzinga Snap is targeting direct response, app install, e-commerce and other mid-market advertisers featured on the likes...

While BBM started out as a proprietary feature for BlackBerrys, the company last year opened it up to iOS and Android users through an app, garnering a great deal of buzz and no small amount of adoption.

Pretty much every health insurance company has this feature on their website and app.

Uber has gone on the offensive over the legislation, challenging de Blasio to a live stream debate, sending mailers to the districts of council members who support the plan, hosting rallies and adding a «de Blasio feature to its e-hail app that shows a 25 minute wait time for a vehicle that the company says will occur if they are constricted from growing.