Sentences with phrase «of app makers»

Opening HomeKit to the broad community of app makers has its pros and cons, according to Chris Allen, the CEO of iDevices, which makes smart plugs and thermostats that work with HomeKit.

It's a nice idea but without the support of the app makers - principally Netflix - it's always going to look a bit inadequate.

Lodsys has already sued or threatened hundreds (and likely thousands) of app makers.

Here's a whole host of app makers still devoting their energy to iOS and Android and cranking out half - baked — no, quarter - baked — apps for BlackBerry, just because they have to.

Not exact matches

Drug maker Takeda and U.K. - based partner Cognition Kit have shown promising (but preliminary) results in a study of their co-developed depression app.

SnapChat maker Snap is getting ready to take some of its content beyond its app: Snap is developing a new program dubbed Stories Everywhere that will allow third - party publishers to embed Snapchat content on their websites, according to a new Cheddar report.

With the possible exception of social media company Snap, these companies — a carmaker, a phone maker and a music streaming app — have little to do with WeChat and video games, all part of Tencent's core businesses.

Blackberry sued Facebook for patent infringement, saying the social network's messaging apps infringed on the former phone maker's intellectual property related to such innovations as showing an unread message indicator on top of an icon and showing multiple incoming messages in an inbox.

New Money: Headspace, a Los Angeles - based maker of a meditation app, has raised $ 36.7 million in funding from Spectrum Equity.

• Snap Inc, a Venice, Calif. - based maker of the popular messaging app Snapchat, raised $ 3.4 billion by offering 200 million shares.

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For reasons no one is sure of yet, Apple has ditched Google - supplied data and is instead building its app using information supplied by GPS maker TomTom and a few other sources.

Founded in 2011, the maker of messaging app Snapchat and Spectacles (sunglasses that record video), is known for being pretty opaque in its business dealings.

Pao is on the board of three Kleiner - backed startups, including Flipboard, a hot maker of software for reading content on smartphones and tablets — one of Kleiner's highest - profile bets on mobile and social apps.

At the heart of the matter are several software tools Disney used to create the apps that Rushing believes help transmit data like persistent identifiers back to software tool makers that enable them to «facilitate subsequent behavioral advertising» to children.

If history is our guide, he'll likely kick off his talk with how well Apple has done at getting its customers to run the latest versions of iOS and OS X, how many apps are available in the company's App Store, uptick in Apple TV usage, and perhaps most importantly to developers, how much the iPhone maker has doled out to the software makers as part of their revenue - sharing agreement.

«I think linking to people is rewarding, so I'll always ask if they want to include their LinkedIn or Twitter URL,» says Grant Stavely, a senior security engineer at Evernote, a Redwood City, California, maker of productivity apps.

I'd be surprised if there isn't some mention of the iTV at WWDC, perhaps even an introduction of a software developer kit for app makers.

Andy Wilson, chief executive of forensics software maker Logikcull, said it is already common for companies to search for usage of encrypted apps or deleted messages when conducting internal investigations.

Apple's and Google's app stores let developers reach hundreds of millions of customers overnight; Amazon Marketplace does the same for makers of physical products.

-- 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

United Luck Consortium has purchased Outfit7, the maker of the wildly popular Talking Tom mobile app, for $ 1 billion.

That's part of the reason why this year Tang plans to quintuple spending on promotions and work with phone carriers and makers to pre-install its app.

According to the European Commission — which does take monopoly power seriously — Google has required Android smartphone makers that want to be able to offer customers access to its Google Play app store or to its search app to include a whole suite of other Google apps.

Former Washington Redskin LaVar Arrington opened Thurston's door, and offered a tour of the campus, as well as some oatmeal cookies, to the stunned app makers.

Facebook Inc. provided more evidence on Wednesday that it can turn eyeballs into profit as the maker of the world's most popular app and social website trounced Wall Street's estimates, sending its shares to an all - time high.

-- Tim Chatfield, co-founder and CEO of Jitjatjo, maker of an intelligently matched temporary staffing mobile app

The BlackBerry World store now offers more than 120,000 apps, up from 70,000 on Jan. 30, with both Skype and synthesizer maker Moog being two of the latest big - name additions.

Likewise, Words With Friends maker Zynga recently filed a suit against the makers of casual sex app Bang With Friends to protect their signature trademark.

Instead, Facebook's PR team and lower ranking leaders have led the company's defense by drawing technical distinctions between what happened and more common breaches by hackers, and by pointing out that Facebook curtailed the amount of user data it shared with app makers in 2014.

They began the class believing they were selling an open data and software platform for people with Type 1 Diabetes into a multi-sided market comprised of patients, providers, device makers, app builders and researchers.

• Docady, an Israel - based maker of a mobile app for critical document access and management, has raised $ 1.5 million in seed funding from backers like Pitango Venture Capital, Disrupt - ive and Eilon Tirosh.

Like many things about Android, of course, Apple's iOS did it first and did it bigger; in January the iPhone maker settled with the FTC for exactly the same problem with its own app store for $ 32.5 million.

Bruno is the co-founder of Hometeam, maker of an app that pairs home health aides with seniors in need of care (and all of those aides are employees, not contractors).

And that means that Snap's future shareholders won't be taking quite as much risk by buying into the maker of the disappearing message app, which lost $ 515 million at its bottom line last year.

BlackBerry is also in favour of imposing new rules that would require app makers to create software for all phone manufacturers.

Granted, the design of an app isn't necessarily a deal - maker, but when I'm browsing through it every single day, it helps that it looks great.

Huawei, like a lot of Chinese phone makers, uses its own Android skin — EMUI 4.1 in this case — which doesn't include a catch - all app drawer.

Almost immediately, shares of Meitu, a Chinese smartphone app maker, jumped 80 percent in a week — then lost the gains nearly as fast.

Germany and France feel the makers of encrypted messaging apps like Telegram and Signal should help fight Islamic State terrorists, and they're pushing for Europe - wide rules to make that happen.

Only cab - hailing apps Uber and Didi Chuxing and Chinese handset maker Xiaomi are ahead of it.

Tencent has been an investor in Snap, the maker of the messaging app Snapchat, and owns some of the world's most popular games.

Most of China's tech giants, including instant messaging and gaming company Tencent, mobile handset maker Xiaomi, portal and microblogging giant Sina, and the country's video streaming sites YoukuTudou, iQiyi, and LeTV, all have rushed into the rapidly growing space, joining upstarts such as Panda TV, an e-sports streaming app owned by Wang Sicong, the son of Wang Jianlin, China's richest man, a real estate mogul with aspirations in media and entertainment.

GICS is set to undergo a major shift with the introduction of the communications services sector, which will encompass not just telecom companies, but internet media companies, mobile gaming app makers, online streaming services, search engines, social media platforms and more.

One of the most extreme examples is the recent incident when makers of Guild Wars 2 went as far as to embed the equivalent of a spyware app inside a game update.

«In 2014 we received Facebook data and derivatives of Facebook data from another company, (app maker) GSR, that we engaged in good faith to legally supply data for research.

App makers such as Moogento have embraced the power and reach of Slack as well.

The company Qwiki, maker of an iPhone video sharing app, was hatched at a Summit event and acquired last year by Yahoo for $ 50 million; Basis, a company that makes wristwatch health trackers, secured its first major investment at Summit and was sold to Intel last year for over $ 100 million.

But earlier this year it launched a way to pay in some apps using your Venmo credentials instead of card information, and it is charging app makers a transaction fee to accept those payments.

As the messaging - app owner was thumbing its nose at democratic capitalism by selling shares conferring no votes, the maker of specialized integrated circuits converted its super-charged shares to regular ones.