In a move that pushes it closer to covering all the bases in social media, Facebook has rolled out its very own App Center. The site unveiled the Facebook App Center, a one-stop-shop for apps of all media types, on Thursday, May 10.
Instagram, which is now available in Android devices too, has somewhere around 50 million users, and is on its way to hit the 100 million mark, thereby joining the biggies like LinkedIn, Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook. Here's an infographic, explaining Instagram's growth since its launch.
Spotify for the iPad has arrived! Almost 10 months after the arrival of Spotify in the states and two years after the launch of the iPad, the music streaming application has released a big-screen version of itself.
Mark Zuckerberg joined Viddy, the short video-sharing app that places an emphasis on effects. The company recently began raising funding in a Series B, which aims to put the company at a $370 million valuation.
Exasperated by the wolf whistles and cat calls that seem to be the universal welcome for women passing construction sites? New York City is creating an app for that.
It is highly expected that the Bank of Japan will resort to additional monetary easing at its next meeting on April 27 so that the economy could recover from deflation and grow more strongly.
Whether it is a stroll on the beach, sitting in a tranquil garden or a trip in the space shuttle researchers are testing a new iPhone app in a mass experiment to see if it is possible to craft the perfect dream.
Instagram, makers of photo sharing apps, was bought by Facebook for $1 billion. Now the company has just announced to cross 40 million users within the first 10 days after the debut of the Android app. But we thought to review other top ten alternative photo sharing apps for your iphone and android phones.
Zynga, who recently acquired OMGPOP, announced that Draw Something has broken the record as the fastest-growing mobile application ever. At its peak, Draw Something was downloaded more than 50 million times in 50 days.
Easter is just three days away, and the countdown has already begun. Now it is time to get into the spirit of Easter by following all the traditions which include buying chocolate bunnies, basket of candies, coloring the eggs and visiting the Easter parade with full boom. But with all these rituals, one more tech tradition has evolved over the years for this colorful festival and that is Easter-themed Apps for the iOS and Android users.
An Instagram Android app is now available for free download. Long the envy of non-Apple-iPhone users, as of Tuesday the mega-popular image processor is available in the Android Market, which is now called the Google Play store.
Android users rejoice: The long-time iOS photo-sharing app Instagram has finally been released on Google's mobile operating system. For those who are new to Instagram, here is a guide of the best features on the ultimate photo-taking and sharing platform.
The developers of a controversial app have pulled their creation, Girls Around Me designed to find and peruse information about women nearby based on their location, from the Apple App Store after a heated privacy debate.
The Girls Around Me iPhone app, developed by Moscow-based company iFree, is a stalker's dream, and should be a wake-up call for appropriate privacy settings on Facebook. The app has been around since December, but it's avoided the radar so far, buried in the hundreds of thousands of apps in Apple's App Store, until Cult of Mac brought it to light.
A cool looking Android app is bound to attract our attention, and the app attracts us more if it's free for download.
Social media has provided a platform for users to share their favorite memories, photos and anything else that comes to mind. But a new site has expanded this to include another Web-based addiction: porn.
The Hunger Games has earned a big wad of cash at the box office, $152.5 million, in its opening weekend and now Lionsgate has released The Hunger Games Adventures role-playing game for Facebook.
While Facebook is built around finding friends over things you like, a new app has been built on the opposite idea. The EnemyGraph Facebook application encourages users to find things they dislike, or hate, to find people with common interests.
Every year, the Y Combinator Demo Day gives startup companies an opportunity to pitch their incubated startups to the Valley's biggest investors. This edition brings more than 60 companies, and at least one of them is sure to make some waves: Flutter.
Netflix has not released a Facebook app in the U.S. because of a privacy law called the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) that prevents video renters from publishing customer's rental records.
Google Play made its official debut on Tuesday, March 27, after a soft opening earlier this month. The Android Marketplace, where Google smartphone users went for apps, has been re-branded as the Google Play store. Google made the switch on March 6, 2012, releasing a short video on YouTube and redirecting users from the old web site, market.android.com, to the new Google Play homepage. Google also put dozens of apps and games on sale for just 49 cents in celebration of the shift.
Draw Something, the Pictionary-like iPhone app, is the newest addition to a growing number of casual games designed to take advantage of the increasing numbers of people connected through smartphones. Much like the Internet has changed hardcore gaming, wireless devices are transforming the way non-gamers look at easy to play, social games. Instead of first-person-shooting and dungeon style adventure games, smartphone users are flocking toward games that take advantage of fast wireless connection...
