Facebook has scooped up fitness tracking app Moves for an undisclosed sum. The app which is available on Android and iPhone will continue to run separately even after the acquisition. Developed by ProtoGeo Oy, the 2-year-old Helsinki company’s Moves app runs in the background on users’ phones and uses location data to build up a profile of their activities throughout the day.
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HTC One M8 becomes official phone of Delhi Daredevils
HTC which recently launched its flagship One M8 has announced that it has teamed up with the IPL team Delhi Daredevils. With this participation the HTC One (M8) has become the official phone of the IPL 2014 franchise.
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Sony launches Background Defocus app on Google Play
Sony has launched its Background Defocus app in Google Play Store which can be downloaded for free by all Xperia smartphone users. Compatible on devices running on Android 4.2 and higher, the app enables users to take photo and add a background blur.
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Apple iPhone sales in India soar to 55%, more than doubled YoY
Apple revealed its Q2 financial report today by recording $45.6 billion in revenues. The company shipped 43.72 million iPhones in the last quarter in addition to 16.35 million iPads. Giving insights about its performance in India, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that iPhone sales have increased 55% over the past year.
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Instagram personalizes Explore Tab
Instagram has tailored its Explore Tab in order to offer more personalized content to its users. Announced in 2012, the Explore tab shows you photos and videos of persons you don’t know and the ones that are not in you friend list. It was a replacement to the Popular section. Hence, users are forced to view these random media content against their will.
Gionee to set up 750 service centers across India by March 2015
Gionee started its operations almost a year back in India. Today it has announced that it will open more than 750 service centers across India by March 2015. The Chinese company recently unveiled world’s thinnest smartphone Elife S5.5 at Rs 22,999.
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Facebook reports Q1 2014 earnings, records $2.5 billion in revenues
Facebook released its earnings report for Q1 2014 posting revenue of $2.5 billion, which is an increase of 76 percent since 2013. The social network exceeded Wall Street expectations which were between $2.36 and $2.4 billion. Facebook’s mobile ads represented 59 percent of its total ad revenue in the first quarter, up from 30 per cent in the year-ago period. The company’s revenue from advertising was $2.27 billion, up 82% over that time.
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Facebook has over 1 billion mobile monthly active users
Facebook has revealed some important numbers in its latest Q1 earnings call of 2014. The social network reported that it has more than 1.28 billion monthly active users on mobile and desktop and over 1 billion monthly active mobile only users.
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Google to offer mobile app install ads in Search and YouTube
In a bid to enhance its ad offerings, Google will soon start to roll out mobile app install ads in mobile search and YouTube. The company is following other tech giants like Facebook and Yahoo. Just last week Twitter also introduced app-install ads on its mobile platform.
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Android outnumbers iOS in mobile ad traffic: Report
Android has surpassed iOS in terms of ad traffic according to a new report from Opera Mediaworks. Almost 43% of all mobile ad impressions came from an Android devices in the first quarter of 2014 as per the latest Mobile Advertising report.
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Amazon’s smartphone may boast of tilt gesture control
Amazon is supposedly working on Android smartphone whose specifications were leaked earlier this month. Today some more details about the phone were revealed by BGR. The smartphone that is expected to launch in June will enable users to control the device by simply tilting it around in different directions.
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Microsoft India and HP launch Omni 10 Windows 8.1 tablet with educational content for college students
Microsoft India has partnered with HP and Pearson to launch a new tablet for college going students. Aiming at students from engineering and management streams, the tablet is powered by Windows 8.1 and dubbed as HP Omni 10.
WhatsApp crosses 500 million active users worldwide
WhatsApp Messenger is continuing to increase it users base. As per the latest numbers revealed by the company, it is clearly the leader in the current instant messaging market. Today, WhatsApp which was acquired by Facebook in February this year has announced that it has surpassed 500 million monthly active users globally.
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Apple takes a dig at Samsung in new environmental print ad
Apple is still fighting the legal court battle with Samsung, but that has not stopped the company from teasing its nemesis. On the occasion of Earth Day the maker of iPhone and iPad has released a print advertisement in one of the UK newspapers about its environmental strategies.
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Apple and Google get competitive over game exclusivity
Apple and Google are wooing game developers by to get popular mobile games in the their app store first, claims a latest report by The Wall Street Journal. The two tech giants are actively offering incentives and offers to mobile game developers for game availability on their platform.
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