Uber announced "surge drop," a new feature meant to help its users find cheaper rides, on Monday The feature, which notifies users when lower rates are available, will be rolling out to iOS users this week in an update. See also: 6 Apps That Make Mornings More Manageable With surge drop, Uber users can enable [...]
Dish Network just signed a deal with Disney that gives the satellite-TV company the rights to re-transmit Disney content — which includes channels under the ABC, ESPN and Disney brands — over the Internet. As part of the agreement, Dish said its controversial AutoHop feature for skipping commercials will be disabled for much of that [...]
Google is rolling out a new enhancement to Gmail called Quick Actions, letting users act on messages without leaving their inboxes. With Quick Actions, a Gmail user will be able to RSVP for events, view folders on cloud services and even begin writing a restaurant review with a click. Quick Actions appear as a clickable [...]
Flipboard is tip-toeing into the ecommerce space with the launch of a new feature on Monday: shoppable catalogs. In March, Flipboard introduced the option for users to create their own magazines full of articles for others to browse. Nearly eight months and more than 4.5 million user-created magazines later, Flipboard is building on this option [...]