Most digital publishers maintain their own reading
apps on both of these platforms and also develop on other niche operating systems, such as Blackberry and Windows 8.
Plex News is launching in almost all of
the apps on all of the platforms.
Not exact matches
Smartphone users in the US are already helping to drive the adoption
of voice - centered
app usage, which will likely facilitate the spread
of voice
on other
platforms including smartphones and connected cars.
The Silicon Valley startup's «smart pill»
platform, Discover, helps doctors track patients» biometrics — and whether or not they're sticking to a drug protocol — with the help
of ingestible (and
on - the - body) sensors that communicate with a smartphone
app.
More than 200,000 developers have used the
platform to create
apps, and some have gone
on to major success, including the developers behind Bubble Ball, Blast Monkeys, Dabble, The Lost City, The Secret
of Grisly Manor, and Cannon Cat.
While various forms
of software that allow users to block online advertisements have been around for a while, it only really became an issue last year after Apple started allowing such
apps on its iOS
platform.
Zuckerberg noted that Facebook changed its
app platform in 2014, restricting the ability
of app developers to harvest data
on their users» Facebook friends.
As if to prove it is indeed serious about both its cloud computing and enterprise pushes, Google
on Thursday named VMware founder Diane Greene as leader
of a newly converged team
of cloud businesses, including Google for Work, Google Cloud
Platform, Chrome for Work, Android for Work, and Google
Apps.
This type
of data can then be used to «to detect a child's activity across multiple
apps and
platforms on the Internet, and across different devices, effectively providing a full chronology
of the child's actions across devices and
apps,» according to the complaint.
Those games will be available in China to stream for free
on Tencent's variety
of platforms, including Tencent Sports and the company's flagship social network WeChat, which touts roughly 960 monthly active users and accounts for almost 30 %
of China's mobile
apps usage.
This will allow you to focus your efforts
on the operational side
of your business while your developer creates your
app and other web - based
platforms you may need to set your company up for success.
We believe we will be the
platform launching with the highest number
of apps on its first device.
«Apple Inc. has suspended plans to offer a live Internet - based television service and is instead focusing
on being a
platform for media companies to sell directly to customers through its
App Store, according to a person with knowledge
of the matter.»
And with the wealth
of media add -
ons,
apps and content widgets that are available
on most
platforms, the options available to both amateur and professional web designers is nearly endless.
Many businesses do this by creating newsletters, emails, custom landing pages, social media posts and various other forms
of content
on their websites and
apps across a variety
of platforms (desktop, mobile, social, email, etc).
Fortune 1000 companies, startups, digital agencies, investment firms, and media conglomerates rely
on our newsletters to keep atop the key trends shaping their digital landscape — whether it is
apps and
platforms, digital media, e-commerce, payments, fintech or the Internet
of Things.
Instagram is hanging
on to a demographic that's rapidly abandoning the Facebook
platform, according to a new RBC Capital Markets survey, making Mark Zuckerberg's buy
of the photo - sharing
app «one
of the best acquisitions in internet history» according to one analyst.
• StatMuse is available as an iOS
app, but the voice
platform will launch
on Amazon Alexa in the next few weeks, which means you could ask your Echo a question and hear Peyton Manning's voice instead
of Alexa's.
On the corporate side, Facebook, which is not known for being an open
platform, has developed such a reputation for privacy violations that the launch
of its Messenger
app was met with a huge wave
of revulsion, even though the permissions being requested were really pretty standard.
2014 saw the launch
of the organization's Digital Cookie
platform, which made it possible for about 160,000 Girl Scouts to sell cookies
on the web and with a dedicated
app.
Nearly all users
of Square's Cash
app can now trade bitcoin
on the
platform, CEO Jack Dorsey announces.
It's inefficient for developers to build out «skills» for various distinct
platforms, Foster says, when the
apps on your phone can already do most
of what you're trying to do, and could just be voice - enabled.
Another metric to consider is the «popular
app» categories
on both
of the
platforms.
Rather than trying to create an
app with an evolving technology like virtual reality, Luis and his team focused
on the iOs and Android
platforms, creating their first
app in three months in the hopes
of soon generating revenue.
But the largest slice
of revenue that Apple pulls in from online services stems from the cut it takes when people pay for
apps on its
App Store
platform.
However, Rainforest QA has now released their mobile
app testing
platform («Quality Assurance as a Service»), along with an ebook about scaling mobile testing itself, using their crop
of over 50,000 crowdsourced testers to zero in
on specific issues (and they get into this in detail in a recent eBook).
There are still some functions available from the old
platform, however, such as the ability to read public media
on behalf
of a user or to read a user's own media statistics, although the number
of requests (the number
of times your
app accesses Instagram's data, useful for real - time updates) has been reduced to 200 from 5,000.
On Tuesday, the company opened up its network to third - party developers with the launch
of the Cloudflare
Apps Platform.
Chunyu, a Chinese mobile healthcare
app company that connects patients and doctors, raised $ 50 million from China International Capital Corporation (CICC), Rushan Venture Capital under DunAn Holding Group, Pavilion Capital run by Temasek, and BlueRun Ventures, and HealthEdge, a provider
of a cloud - based or
on - site integrated financial, administrative and clinical software
platform for healthcare payers focusing
on medical claims and benefits management brought in $ 30 million
In the meantime, Spotify is also in the process
of controlling music
apps on its own
platform.
The majority
of conversation that happens
on most chat
apps is text - based, and other
platforms struggle to get users to exchange photos or videos.
Square Cash and LINE, two popular mobile
apps, have announced that they will support the buying and selling
of cryptocurrency
on their
platforms.
Before Warner's call, Senate Intel member Ron Wyden — one
of the biggest privacy advocates in Congress — issued a letter to Zuckerberg seeking answers
on a number
of detailed points
on Monday, including how many privacy audits the company has conducted for
apps on its
platform and if Facebook has ever notified individual users
of privacy violations
of this nature.
On the wider app audit that Facebook has committed to carrying out in the wake of the scandal, Schroepfer was also asked how it can audit apps or entities that are no longer on the platform — and he admitted this is «a challenge» and said Facebook won't have «perfect information or detail»
On the wider
app audit that Facebook has committed to carrying out in the wake
of the scandal, Schroepfer was also asked how it can audit
apps or entities that are no longer
on the platform — and he admitted this is «a challenge» and said Facebook won't have «perfect information or detail»
on the
platform — and he admitted this is «a challenge» and said Facebook won't have «perfect information or detail».
And while he was fuzzy
on many details, giving lots
of partial answers and promises to «follow up», one thing he did confirm was that Facebook board member Peter Thiel's secretive big data analytics firm, Palantir, is one
of the companies Facebook is investigating as part
of a historical audit
of app developers» use
of its
platform.
Causing this kind
of platform whiplash could push developers away from the Instagram ecosystem, not that the company was too keen
on some
of these
apps.
Jan Koum, a founder
of the messaging
app WhatsApp who sold the service to Facebook in 2014 and is
on its board
of directors, is leaving the social network
platform, according to The New York Times.
It also rewrote its Terms
of Service today to clarify how it collects and works with outside developers, and announced sweeping
platform API restrictions that will break many
apps built
on Facebook but prevent privacy abuses.
That in itself — combined with more scrutiny from regulators over how data is collected, used, and shared, and bigger changes that Facebook is making in terms
of how it works with third - party
apps that link into the Facebook
platform (which CEO Mark Zuckberg announced last week)-- will hopefully lead to more meaningful changes
on that front.
Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front
of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data
on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result
of a personality quiz
app running
on its
platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.
Today the committee heard from a former CA director, Brittany Kaiser, who suggested CA had in fact been able to obtain information
on far more than 87M Facebook users — by the use
of a series
of additional quiz
apps designed to be deployed
on Facebook's
platform.
The result
of those data audits included a recommendation that Facebook tighten
app permissions
on its
platform, according to a spokesman for the Irish DPC, who we spoke to this week.
So, for example, just 558 Filipino Facebook users installed the personality quiz
app that passed data to Cambridge Analytica — yet the company was able to grab personal data
on up to 1,175,312 more users in that country as a result
of how Facebook allowed people's data to be shared with developers
on its
platform.
The data was acquired and processed by Cambridge University professor Aleksandr Kogan whose personality quiz
app, running
on Facebook's
platform in 2014, was able to harvest personal data
on tens
of millions
of users (a subset
of which Kogan turned into psychological profiles for CA to use for targeting political messaging at US voters).
Facebook finally suspended Cambridge Analytica from its
platform last month — although the company has admitted it was made aware
of the allegations linking it with a quiz
app that harvested Facebook users data since at least December 2015, when the Guardian published its first article
on the story.
Today, consumers in China don't associate the Line characters with the Line
app — the IP stands
on its own, said Alexis Bonhomme, general manager and co-founder
of CuriosityChina, a company focused
on social customer relationship management and Chinese digital
platforms.
Indeed the company has said it expects it will uncover additional leaks as it conducts a historical audit
of apps on its
platform that had access to «a large amount
of data».
Since the data misuse scandal blew up last month, Facebook has said it is conducting a full audit
of any
apps which had access to «a large amount»
of information before it changed
app permissions
on its
platform in mid 2015 to prevent developers from being able to suck out data
on Facebook users» friends.
Through its technology - enabled
platform, FarMart helps farmers rent their underutilised agricultural machinery to small and marginal farmers in need
of it
on a pay - per - use basis via a mobile
app and call centre.
What's curious is that since March 17, 2018 — when the Guardian and New York Times published fresh revelations about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, estimating that around 50M Facebook users could have been affected — Facebook has released a steady stream
of statements and updates, including committing to a raft
of changes to tighten
app permissions and privacy controls
on its
platform.