push notifications

Virtually every random site you go to these days wants you to subscribe to its push notifications. It’s one of the many small annoyances on the open web, but thankfully, those pop ups may not be

Push notifications are one of the main ways we connect with our apps —  but according to OneSignal CEO George Deglin, most of the tools for managing those notifications are too expensive without o

For the last 10 years, news feeds have been the main way -- the mainstream user interface -- to discover interesting and relevant digital content. Today, news feeds, from Facebook and Twitter to Link

As developers build apps, the hard part becomes not only attracting sufficient audience to justify the exercise, but also finding ways to keep that audience engaged and coming back to your app. Today,

Twilio today announced the launch of a new API that allows developers to orchestrate the push notifications, text messages and chats they want to send to their users. While Twilio previously offered

<a target="_blank" href="http://wizrocket.com/">WizRocket</a>, which helps companies increase user engagement by fine-tuning mobile, web, and e-mail notifications, has raised $8 million in new funding

Facebook subsidiary Parse is rolling out Parse Push Experiments, a new feature aimed at marketers and developers whose apps use the Parse SDKs that lets them A/B test different messages and times for

Two new applications, Drop and Push, want to save you from having to download multiple news apps or browse dozens of websites just to keep up with the topics that interest you. But what makes these tw

Snapchat Stories are a huge hit, with the photos and videos you post to your profile now more popular than Snap messages. But they’re still easy to forget about since they’re pull and not

The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Alexia Tsotsis, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — react with nervous jokes as all eyes turn to the success of Yo, the single-minded communication app

A new Y Combinator-backed startup called Roost wants to succeed where RSS readers perhaps failed with the introduction of a new service that lets consumers subscribe to websites using browser-based pu

Fanout, a company that has been in private beta since its inception in 2011, will be available to the general public this week. According to company founder Jason Karneges, Fanout provides real-time d

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.usekahuna.com">Kahuna</a>, a startup that helps marketers test and automate their push notifications, is announcing that it has raised $11 million in Series A fundi

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — welcome the summer solstice with a dip in the gene pool. With Google Glass two months new and iOS7 in developers' ha

At last year's I/O, Google <a target="_blank" href="http://gizmodo.com/5921766/android-messaging-is-headed-to-the-cloud">launched</a> its Cloud Messaging push notification service <a target="_blank" h

Following Monday's <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/10/29/live-from-microsofts-windows-phone-8-event-in-san-francisco/">reveal</a> of Windows Phone 8, the most recent update to Microsoft's

Twitter is <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/expansive-experiences-in-latest-mobile.html">adding</a> more features for iOS and Android today, allowing users to receive push noti

Real-time push notification service <a href="http://boxcar.io/">Boxcar</a>, currently available on both iOS and Mac OS X, has just closed on a $150,000 seed round with <a href="http://kimaventures.com

Here's a funny story: <a href="http://urbanairship.com/">Urban Airship</a>, a backend service provider for mobile developers, recently discovered that its push notifications offering works on Amazon's

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