Sentences with phrase «than apps for»

This system connects your Xbox One experience to the desktop machine in a way thats simpler and more user - friendly than any app for Windows yet released.

Not exact matches

Not everything adjusts perfectly to a touch - first experience, but it is more than enough for the kind of lightweight stuff you would want to do while switching away from productivity apps and so - called «real work.»

• Braavo Capital, a New York - based integrated financing platform for mobile app businesses, raised more than $ 70 million in debt and equity.

Designers of an app that alerts the user to low blood - sugar levels, for instance, might think about how technology can transmit its feedback to the body in ways that are more direct than displaying information on a smartphone screen.

With more than 50 apps, Apptivo is able to provide a CEM platform for SMBs, he says.

More than a few tech observers were amazed when the disappearing - message app creator rebuffed Facebook's $ 3 billion offer for the company in 2013.

There are duplicate Samsung - branded apps for everything from email to calendar, and none of them are better than the Google apps that ship with Android.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

But Spiegel has assembled an impressive executive roster headlined by COO Emily White, former director of business operations for Facebook - owned photo - sharing app Instagram, suggesting that monetization efforts are coming sooner rather than later.

The app's user can set a search for destination and price range, though the company said more than one - fifth of sales are from recommendations generated by its algorithm, not from the price alerts users set to track fares for a particular destination.

Charging neither merchants nor users for transactions, it has persuaded more than 3,800 locations to use the app to process sales.

Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

While the launch of a new driving safety app, for example, might not grab readers, the fact that nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, and that more than 20 million are permanently injured, will.

To justify its relatively high valuation and fend off concerns about slowing user growth, Snap has emphasized how important Snapchat is to its users, how long they spend on the app and the revenue potential of the emerging trend for young people to communicate with video rather than text.

Last summer Electronic Arts shelled out upwards of $ 1.3 billion for PopCap Games, which had its game apps downloaded more than 150 million times worldwide, thanks to mobile hits like Plants vs. Zombies.

Polar, whose smartphone app clients have included Condé Nast and CBS Sports, has inked a deal with RIM to develop more than 100 exclusive apps for RIM's new PlayBook tablet computer, which launches April 19.

It's true that the cable and satellite companies have been trying to adapt — including launching apps for various platforms — but it's probably fair to say the industry has been pushed rather than leapt on its own accord.

Facebook's WhatsApp messaging app rolled out end - to - end encrypted for its more than one billion monthly active users earlier this year.

It has more than 300 million daily users, well over 100 million more users than Snapchat has for its entire app.

When that growing app ecosystem is added to the simplicity of a much smoother interface than that found on many smart TVs, plus the relatively low price, dedicated media - streaming devices such as Roku's lineup look to be making a strong case for continued relevance among otherwise converged electronics.

The move is just the latest to make Walmart's shopping app «stickier» in the hopes consumers will stay and make their digital purchases there, rather than at amazon.com or target.com for instance.

Twitter recently integrated Periscope into its apps, making it easier than ever for anyone to «go live,» and broadcast to the world in live time.

Back then, this mysterious, magical piece of smart technology seemed like the gateway to only fun and positive things: Words with Friends, a star chart app and an archaic version of Instagram, at the time designed for nothing more than applying cool filters to your low - res camera phone photos.

With one of these three conference call apps on your mobile phone, rounding up your employees for a quick meeting is easier than assembling a group in the office.

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.

TechCrunch catches up with the company behind BarMax, which sells for $ 999.99 in the iPhone App Store and has sold more than 100 units, enough to turn a profit.

The smartphone market is forecasted to grow by more than 10 percent every year for the next four or five years, and the number of mobile app downloads is projected to double in the next three years.

In our continued coverage of the new Apple Watch, we find that more than 3,000 apps have launched for the new gadget.

The beauty of design or app development for tablets and smartphones is that it is typically cheaper than a conventional PC design.

According to a post at the online tech community DreamScape, because a mobile site is essentially «a different front end for a website, the development costs are lower than those of an app.»

Now there are more than 850,000 apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch available in more than 150 countries, and users have downloaded more than 50 billion apps.

I detailed the 29 apps I use regularly in my in - depth review; fewer than a third of them are available for the Z10.

After downloading the app, you see there are fewer than 20 items available for purchase, ranging from iPhone cases to jewelry, and users must choose from existing templates.

But Facebook's newer apps like Instagram or WhatsApp have typically been a little more open, and they've served as better channels for many new businesses than Facebook itself.

Because the thing that developers ask for more than anything is a bigger market for their apps.

Neon Roots has worked with more than 100 clients, and that roster includes companies such as Spotify and Epson, and figures such as Snoop Dogg, for whom they created the much - lauded cannabis - culture app Merry Jane, and author - speaker Tony Robbins.

«For Amazon, they've been cultivating the mobile buying experience with all of their apps — from actual purchasing to price comparison and more — so they have more evidence than most.»

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.

Presents another avenue for sales The convenience and accessibility of a mobile app will encourage your customers to carry out transactions with your business rather than patronize a competitor who only has a website.

Meanwhile, Facebook still has several untapped areas for revenue opportunities, including its WhatsApp and Messenger apps, both of which have more than 1 billion users.

I feel like some of my apps for iOS are slightly better - designed than their Android counterparts.

Samsung is opening up the sensor to other app developers so that it can be used for more than just unlocking the phone (PayPal is on board for payments, for example), but I got so frustrated with it that I ended up turning it off.

But the growing number of investors, particularly in Silicon Valley, on the hunt for technologies that do for medicine what apps have done for tech can be a boon for new companies like Theranos whose narratives may be more compelling than their science.

For browsing the web, loading up apps, and general multitasking, it's more than fine.

For personal finances or checking on multiple bank accounts and credit cards, there is no app better than Mint.com.

Some entrepreneurs find that it's easier to set a standard app for companywide chats than to try to find people by phone, email, or text.

Slack's app already integrates with more than 500 other applications and services, part of the company's master plan to turn its platform into a hub for business processes and communications.

But Snapchat recently announced that it will be integrating payments through a partnership with Square, which could turn the app into something larger than just a fun, silly form of entertainment for teenagers.

More than 50 million Facebook profiles were harvested by an app for data, which passed the information onto London - based elections consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

However, for some a classic approach might be better than the latest app.