As the founder of Brooklyn -
based app company, TinyBop, Gutierrez is responsible for the series of apps, Digital Toys, that gave kids the tools to build their own robots and machines.
As the founder of Brooklyn -
based app company, TinyBop, Gutierrez is responsible for the series of apps,
It just means that they have somewhere to sit,» says Jason Fried, the founder of 37Signals, a web -
based apps company, and a critic of the prevailing workplace culture.
Not exact matches
Lebedev also said that the Independent will be investing more in digital and creating 25 new «content roles» for the
company, as well a new subscription -
based mobile
app and new bureaus in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Oscar, which offers health insurance policies that are easier to understand within a user - friendly
app -
based interface, has raised a reported $ 727 million in funding since 2013, though the
company has failed to generate a profit and faces a murky future thanks to the uncertainty surrounding Obamacare.
He envisions the startup blooming into an
app -
based transportation
company that shuttles family members of inmates to all 52 correctional facilities in New York State.
If Siri opened the world to the idea that search could be voice
based, OneTok gives developers the ability to integrate voice controls into any
app they build, using the
company's patented voice integration technology.
In May, Globalive secured the position of lead investor for a raise by TimePlay Inc., a Toronto -
based company that makes an interactive gaming
app for movie theatres.
The London -
based company sells an
app that connects patients with health - care professionals.
• 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.
The Eugene, Ore. -
based company makes an
app called EnLighten, which predicts when traffic lights will turn green or red.
Curiously, that would bar firms such as the largest U.S. -
based exchange Coinbase from advertising on the platform, while presumably still allowing Twitter's sister
company, Square, to advertise its young Bitcoin buying and selling function on its Cash
app.
The Toronto -
based innovation
company creates enterprise platforms and consumer
apps with emerging technologies in mobile, video, augmented reality, 3D, artificial intelligence, payments and blockchain.
Drop's
app is highly rated, draws a young and enthusiastic user
base, and the
company has a founding team that includes a designer, alongside business and tech executives, Logan noted.
-- Carisa Miklusak, CEO of tilr, a hiring
app which uses an algorithm to blindly match qualified workers with
companies based on skills which exceeded 50,000 downloads in 2017
• Cloudflare acquired Neumob, a Sunnyvale, Calif. -
based company focused on speeding up mobile
apps, reducing errors, and boosting conversions.
The Baidu code in the Uber
app was found by Appthority, a
company based in San Francisco that specializes in helping enterprises and government agencies find secure mobile solutions.
Hamilton's portfolio includes Text Engine, a startup that allows users with «dumb phones» to pull information from the internet; Radial, a music - streaming
app focused on the soca, a Caribbean -
based drum - heavy dance offshoot of calypso; and Tinsel, a hardware
company that makes fashionable necklaces that double as headphones.
The Baltimore -
based company recently spent nearly $ 1 billion acquiring health technology
apps with the intention of integrating them into its clothing.
Social media platform and
app developer Thred has enjoyed a steady first day on the ASX, while two other Perth -
based companies have made progress on their respective reverse takeovers.
New York -
based StartApp is an insights driven mobile
company that empowers
app developers, social
companies and other types of businesses to understand their users, better connect and engage with them, as well as improve monetization.
-- Jay Jamison, SVP of strategy and product management at Quick
Base, maker of a no - code tool that enables workers to build
apps without needing to know how to write a single line of code and that is used by more than half of Fortune 100
companies including Google, Kayak, and Southwest Airlines
A particularly hot area for new
companies is location -
based apps (Loopt and Foursquare are the big ones right now) that work with smartphones» GPS capabilities.
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.
Research In Motion has blocked the Waterloo, Ont. -
based company's instant messaging
app from its BlackBerry devices.
The FTC charged Singapore -
based mobile advertising
company InMobi with tracking consumers» locations in cases when consumers had denied location - tracking permission to the
apps using InMobi's software.
To fund the development of the
app, AVOS, the
company behind MixBit, raised venture capital money in April last year from Google Ventures, the China -
based incubator Innovation Works, Madrone Capital and New Enterprise Associates.
But to every rule there is an exception, and glad I was to be called out (and called up) by the founder and CEO of one mobile - health
company whose entire premise is
based on scientific research with repeatable results — the exact study, in fact, I had used as my example of what works better than a health
app.
The 29 - year - old founder of Hater, a dating
app that connects people
based on mutual dislikes, recently took something of a risk: His
company created an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin caressing a pregnant Donald Trump and projected it on buildings throughout New York City.
«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.»
Some of my favorite
apps are those that deliver a user experience that is impossible to achieve on the web and something completely different from the website's typical experience — stuff that involves a user's location or is
based on delivering operational transparency (e.g., live updates on the status of something, like a pizza delivery tracker
app created by a pizza
company).
A
company can also augment literal dollar value
based on purchases tracked by shopping
apps, downloadable coupons or online flyers, but that information is rarely publicly available.
That is the mission behind Headspace, a Santa Monica, Calif. -
based meditation
company and
app co-founded by Rich Pierson and Andy Puddicombe.
However, its acquisition of the Chicago -
based user design and
app building
company is a hat - tip to the need for a well - designed customer experience, which has fueled acquisitions completed in recent years by other large
companies.
Boston -
based Unidesk was founded in 2007 and is known for its so - called layering technology that helps corporate IT staff better manage their
companies» Windows
apps.
CEO Greg Isenberg brought his five software engineers from Montreal to San Francisco to help run his
company, 5by, which developed an
app that sifts through online videos and delivers them to users
based on mood, social interests and time of day.
Douyin, an
app that allows users to create and publish short videos, is owned by Beijing -
based new media
company Bytedance.
However, people can opt out of seeing ads on
apps and websites not offered by Facebook,
based on their ad preferences, the
company said late on Thursday.
Today, Lee's San Francisco -
based company, MyFitnessPal, has more than 40 million users, most of them through its mobile
app.
Jiffy has about 140 service
companies on - board, representing about 550 tradespeople who are ready to answer job requests through its web and mobile
app, either on an instant or scheduled
basis.
FARSANDS Solutions, a WA -
based risk management consultancy, has acquired a controlling interest in the Perth -
based project, property and events management
company,
APP (WA).
Back in 2011, the Montreal -
based product developer co-founded a platform that allowed
companies with little technical know - how to create their own
apps in less than a minute.
It could also lead more
companies to add similar three - dimensional facial - recognition technology into their phones, either by trying to cram all the hardware for it into their own phones, or by using software -
based facial recognition from a
company like FaceTec (which is something that individual
app developers could add to their
apps, too).
At its Build 2015 conference, the
company announced that its new Windows 10 will allow developers to easily reconcile both Android and iOS
apps on the Windows platform as well as incorporate older Win32 -
based apps (which compete with desktop OS platforms).
Amazon Lex combines speech recognition, text recognition, and conversational interactions to make it easier for tech
companies to integrate voice or text -
based chat interfaces for their
apps.
«There is a fair amount of excitement about this, as it's a new platform for
app developers to develop and generate revenue,» says Scott Strawn, program director for Google Strategic Advisory at research
company IDC,
based in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Founded in 2013, the Kansas City -
based company is currently seeking venture capital to create an
app to compliment its online service.
• Reali, a San Carlos, Calif. -
based app - enabled real estate
company, raised $ 3 million in funding from Oren Zeev.
Snap is on the road this week meeting investors and a key question is how much the
company, whose Snapchat
app is known for its disappearing photos, can grow its user
base.
Fastachi, a Boston -
based gourmet nut
company, decided to launch its
app when founder Souren Etyemezian tired of customers «skipping us» during the holiday season when they didn't have time to wait for their gift to be wrapped.