Android sales went into decline in Q4 of 2014, the first time ever the operating system has seen a dip in sales, with shipments falling from 217m in Q3 to 206m in the final three months of last year. The news comes as Android celebrates 1bn smartphones sold in 2014, an impressive milestone that main [...]
London startup Here & Now has launched its iOS app, which lists local activities for families – a sort of YPlan equivalent for parents. The launch follows a pilot in London, during which Here & Now built up partnerships with companies including Vue cinemas. As a result, the app is going live with over 6,000 [...]
Ad tech company Perion has announced it is acquiring Paris-based social advertising management firm MakeMeReach, which will become part of Perion’s mobile division, integrated into its GrowMobile platform MakeMeReach’s AdsOptim technology enables mobile developers to drive their ad campaigns on social media and mobile, and will expand GrowMobile’s mobile media buying capabilities to include social [...]
Not content with debuting her latest video on Snapchat, Madonna has continued her march through social media with a promotion on gay dating app Grindr. To promote the upcoming Rebel Heart album, and tying in with the Valentine’s boom for online dating, Madonna has launched a competition encouraging Grindr users in US to recreate the [...]
According to IKEA, many arguments in households occur because of misunderstandings around clutter and cleaning, so the Swedish company is hoping to address these sources of stress with a new app. The IKEA Emoticons app includes stylised pictures of common household objects, from books and vacuum cleaners to the firm’s iconic Swedish meatballs, and hopes [...]