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Weekends Are The Best Time To Promote Most Apps, Study Finds
According to a new report released today, the best time for mobile application developers to promote or launch a new application across a number of categories tends to be on a weekend, as it turns out. In fact, even if you do well with a weekday release in terms of download numbers, the weekend may be the better time to run an ad campaign that promotes purchases, the report found. This… Read More
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App Annie Fills The Void Left By Facebook’s Onavo Acquisition With Its New Company Smart Sense
When Facebook scooped up mobile data analytics powerhouse Onavo last year, it was only a matter of time before someone rebuilt its service. And that seems to be just what the now-leading mobile app analytics firm App Annie has done. The company, which used some portion of its $39 million in funding to snap up its competitor Distimo earlier this year, has quietly released a new app called… Read More
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The FTC Sues AT&T Over ‘Unlimited’ Data Claims
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing AT&T for having “misled” millions of customers who purchase “unlimited” data plans for their phones, only to have the carrier later drastically reduce the amount of information they could access. According to the FTC’s complaint, AT&T throttled millions of customers tens of millions of times, sometimes after… Read More
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Microsoft Discloses New Data On Government Requests For User Information
Microsoft today disclosed data concerning global government request for its users’ data, and information about their accounts in the first half of 2014. The total number of requests, and the number of accounts impacted were similar to the six month period that concluded 2013. In total, between January and June of this year, 34,494 requests were sent to Microsoft, impacting 58,562 accounts. Read More
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Microsoft Held In Contempt As It Battles A Domestic Search Warrant Demanding Overseas Data
Microsoft has been held in contempt of court after failing to comply with a warrant, following a rejection of a request for appeal on July 31st. The case stems from a United States government search warrant for data stored on a Microsoft server in Ireland. Microsoft contends that the data is outside the purview of the domestic warrant. The United States government disagrees. Microsoft has thus… Read More
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Mobile Intelligence Startup Quettra Comes Out Of Stealth, Raises $2.9M Seed Round
Quettra, a mobile advertising startup founded by the former head of search and discovery for Google’s Play Store Ankit Jain, today announced that it has raised a $2.9 million seed round. Investors include CrunchFund (which was founded by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington), Data Collective, Google Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Miramar Digital Ventures and SV Angel, as well as… Read More
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Salesforce Mobile Reports And Dashboards Provide In-depth Knowledge On The Fly
Salesforce.com today announced a new mobile reports and dashboards tool that runs on their mobile Salesforce1 platform. The goal of the product is to give salespeople access to information on the go, presented to them in a customized fashion to meet the unique needs of each individual user. Salesforce customers have told them, it’s great to have access to data at their desks, but very… Read More
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The World Startup Report Releases ‘The Internet Hall Of Fame” With Data From 50 Countries
Last March, TechCrunch covered one of the World Startup Report’s first releases. Now the organization is back with an ambitious project that gathers insight from 150 companies in 50 countries with the idea of guiding aspiring entrepreneurs in different markets. Read More
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Understory Raises $1.9M To Deploy Its Network Of Hyper-Local, Ground-Level Weather Stations
Weather data currently comes from high-altitude locations, and rarely reflects conditions on the ground with a high degree of accuracy. Boston-based startup Understory wants to change that, and a new seed round of $1.9 million led by True Ventures, and including RRE Ventures, Vegas Tech Fund, SK Ventures and Andrew C. Payne will help the company deploy a network of ground-level weather… Read More
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SAP’s New EVP And GM Of Mobile Sees Tech Trends Converging
SAP’s new EVP and GM of Mobile, Rick Costanzo spent 15 years at BlackBerry. He saw the smartphone develop from its earliest days, and he’s excited to be working for SAP because he sees its mobile division as the glue holding together several tech trends. Read More
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Inside Jobs: How Medium’s Product Scientist Brings Data To Life
The tech press can make it seem like the most important people in the industry are those with “founder” or “chief” in their job titles.
But the truth is, the people who really make the tech industry tick aren’t the CEOs. TechCrunch TV is thrilled to launch a new series called Inside Jobs dedicated to giving in-depth looks at the key people beyond the C-suite, to… Read More -
Tappy Fit Channels Flappy Bird Addiction Into Fitness Motivation Using Fitbit Data
A new game out now on the App Store features mechanics virtually identical to those found in viral hit Flappy Bird, but with a key twist – the game can be made easier through sheer physical effort. Using the Fitbit API, developer Aaron Coleman built-in a variable difficulty engine that allows you to redeem steps counted during a day in exchange for in-game rewards, like wider gaps… Read More
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One Week With Whistle’s New Activity Tracker For Dogs
Considering we humans now have a slew of gadgets, apps and products at our disposal that allow us to track and monitor our health and daily activity, it was only a matter of time before our best friends got one of their own. Last summer, we introduced you to Whistle, a newly-launched startup on a mission to bring Fitbit-style activity trackers to the wagging tails of the canine community. Read More
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Target Accelerator’s First Batch In India Bets Big On Social Commerce, Mobile And Analytics
Target is finally launching its Accelerator Program for Indian startups with five companies that can help the retailer test and build technology solutions across 3D imaging, mobility, personalized search and social media conversations with customers. The Minneapolis-based retailer has been facing heat recently because of a large data breach last year, and had to delay the launch of its… Read More
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Kimono Is A Smarter Web Scraper That Lets You “API-ify” The Web, No Code Required
A new Y Combinator-backed startup called Kimono wants to make it easier to access data from the unstructured web with a point-and-click tool that can extract information from webpages that don’t have an API available. And for non-developers, Kimono plans to eventually allow anyone track data without needing to understand APIs at all. This sort of smarter “web scraper” idea… Read More
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Nest Says Customer Data From Devices Will Only Be Used For Nest Products And Services
Nest says that it’s not going to just hand over its customer data to Google willy-nilly – in a blog post sent to TechCrunch penned by Nest founder Tony Fadell, a question and answer section at the end contains the following: Read More
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Facebook Without The Cool Kids
It’s not just an attractive advertising demographic that Facebook is losing as teens take their mercurial attention elsewhere in sullen search of what’s cool. Facebook sans the cool kids may well be taking a substantial knock to the accuracy of its data too. Read More
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It’s Over For Paid Apps, With A Few Exceptions
Is it over for paid mobile apps? That’s the general thinking these days, as the App Stores fill up with “good enough” alternatives to paid apps, while major publishers game the charts with free offerings that make millions which can then be used for their ongoing user acquisition efforts. That’s one of the reasons why the top charts of the App Store have gotten so… Read More
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Stantt Uses Body-Scan Data To Create A Shirt For Every Body Type
Clothing brands have begun using body-scan data to tweak their clothing sizes and to help customers find the right fit. But a new Kickstarter campaign is taking this method further by creating sizes from the ground up. With 50 different sizes modeled after body scans, Stantt wants to provide a quick and cheap alternative to custom-tailored clothing. Read More
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