Instagram Adds Social Video Capture Freatures to App
Facebook announced today that their $1 billion baby, Instagram has integrated nifty video features into the app. Instagram’s addition of social video features places the app and Facebook head to head in competition for eyeballs with Twitter’s Vine mobile app. Vine allows users to upload and share 6 second video clips, whereas Instagram will enable […]
Is iOS Really Unhackable? NSA Found Spying on US Public Through iPhone Apps
Let it be known that contradictory to earlier reports, US Government agencies have free access to spy on private information contained on your smartphone, tablet, and PC. Apple’s iOS platform is not unhackable. The National Security Administration (NSA) is perhaps America’s most mysterious and powerful Government institution. Feared by foreign nations and regarded as untrustworthy […]
What Facebook’s Acquisition of Parse Means for Mobile Developers
Facebook is truly following through with their mobile-first strategy, dishing out $1 billion to snap up social photo heavy weight Instagram as well as dozens of less publicized mobile start-ups over the past few years. Now Parse, the “mobile-backend-as-a-service startup” (mBaas) which develops tools and services for mobile developers has joined the Facebook family. According […]
Social App SnapChat Seeing Exponential Growth
150 million pictures a day. That’s how many photos are being uploaded everyday via SnapChat, the popular social app. The company is experiencing exponential growth, leaving other social mobile apps in the dust. According to an article by GigaOM, SnapChat was seeing 20 million photos uploaded everyday in October 2012. Instagram’s user activity is small […]
Facebook Chat Heads Hit IOS Later Today
Facebook CTO Cory Ondrejka announced at the D: Dive into Mobile conference that chat heads would be arriving on the Facebook iOS app later today. Chat heads is a Facebook Home feature where instead of receiving a simple text notification about a new Facebook message you instead see a bubble with the head of the person […]
Messaging App “Kik” Seeing Explosive Growth
With over 50 million users and 200,000 downloads per day, upstart messaging app Kik is crushing the competition. Messaging app services have been popping up all over the place, but Kik’s amazing traction has gotten the attention of some big players in the tech world. During an interview with Inside Mobile Apps, Kik CEO Ted […]