Each company seems to be going back and forth, making claims against
their rival app company in what appears to be the first major public spat between the ride - sharing apps.
Not exact matches
The
company behind the popular disappearing - message
app Snapchat has long trailed
rival social media
company Facebook in daily active users and is still far from profitability.
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.
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 tech giant has shown a willingness to mimic the most successful features of
rival companies»
apps.
In addition, Google is allegedly blocking
apps by
rival companies from being pre-installed in Android devices.
News that international credit cards can be integrated with the WeChat Pay mobile
app comes at a time when the
company is growing, aiming to overtake
rival Alibaba's Alipay.
The
company is also being eyed by Match Group, owner of dating
app rival Tinder, and is said to be in talks for over a billion dollars as an asking price.
However, Match's earnings showed that the
company has managed to avoid cannibalisation by growing Tinder's
rivals as well as the
app itself.
Apple is the only
company to sell eBooks directly through their
app, but they tend to be more 20 % more expensive than their
rivals.
Although the
company's
app partnership with Google gives Nook an edge over
rival Amazon, Google itself is seeing rapid growth its own Nexus 7 tablets, produced in partnership with Asus.
TORONTO — Shaw Communications Inc. has launched its FreeRange TV mobile streaming
app, bringing the
company in line with
rivals in offering its full TV service to any subscriber with an Internet or mobile data connection.
It added that one of the claims it has issued over the word «candy» was because it believed the a
rival iOS developer used «candy» in the title of an
app in «a calculated attempt to use other
companies» IP to enhance its own games, through means such as search rankings».
After launching its
rival to enterprise collaboration
apps like Slack last October, Facebook told CNBC that it's now working on a free edition of Workplace in order to sign up more
companies to its service.
A few days ago, we wrote a piece about Tinder's parent
company Match suing its dating
app rival Bumble for patent infringement.
Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service fined Google $ 6.75 million in 2016, ruling that the
company's policy to install its own Search, Maps, and other services as part of its Google Play Store package on Android smartphones was unfair to
rival search engines and
apps, including Russia's own Yandex.
Microsoft essentially shunned Android and iOS for several years, but with Satya Nadella taking the helm in 2014 and adopting a mobile - first stance, the
company has turned its attention to bringing its
apps and services to
rival platforms.
While Apple's iLife and iWork software suites are considerably cheaper than competing products from
rival companies, there's still a bunch of people who would rather download them illegally than have to fork out the $ 20 fee for each
app.
A few months ago, it was reported that Microsoft's Garage division was working on an
app launcher for Android called Arrow Launcher, as the
company continues to push its
apps to
rival platforms.
The
company has always supported its
rival operating systems, but the release of this new browser and the recent upgrade of its Arrow launcher for Android strongly indicate that Microsoft is now focused on developing
apps for its
rival platforms, as pointed out by Pocket - lint.
In an effort to rise above
rival streaming services, the Cupertino
company is expected to release as many as 10 original shows and documentaries by the end of this year, including will.i.am's «Planet of the
Apps» and documentaries about hip - hop label Cash Money Records and music impresario Clive Davis.
And now there's Hive Camera, the
company's
rival to devices like Nest Cam, an indoor camera that offers
app control, remote viewing of your home and a range of motion and sound alerts.
Microsoft's cross-platform software strategy has seen the
company continue to roll out more and more of its
apps to
rival operating systems, in an effort to make its products as widely available as possible.