Epic Games, the creator of the infamous game Fortnite, has recently purchased the social video app, Houseparty. Houseparty is a mobile application that delivers video chat access across multiple platforms that include iOS, Android and macOS. The founders of the app have stated that although...
Microsoft has developed a new language learning tool that uses the smartphone camera to help adults improve their English literacy by learning the words for the things around them. The app allows you to take a picture of an item to then be identified by...
At the Google Cloud Next developer conference, Google announced new partnerships with seven different open source data management and analytics companies. These partners include InfluxData, Elastic, Confluent, DataStax, MongoDB, Redis Labs and Neo4j. By partnering with top open source-centric companies, Google hopes to enhance its Cloud’s...
As part of its iOS 12 update, Apple introduced a number of changes to its operating system's push notification settings in 2018. This included giving users the ability to group notifications together by type and make notifications more or less prominent with “quiet” and “prominent”...
YEC members recently highlighted their favorite platforms for generating paid leads aside from Facebook. These platforms include Google Ads, Youtube, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter and many more. To read the entire article and see how Appetizer Mobile's CEO, Jordan Edelson, provided his insight, check out the...
Ahead of the Google Ads keynote at the Game Developers Conference, Google has announced new app marketing solutions for mobile game businesses. These solutions include App engagement campaigns and smart segmentation. App Engagement Campaigns A common obstacle app marketers face in their advertising campaigns is retaining...
As part of Amazon’s European expansion plans, the tech giant has launched the Alexa Developer Rewards program to pay app developers directly for high-quality Alexa voice apps. While the program was initially targeted at building Alexa’s game skills, now it has broadened its focus toward...
At MWC Barcelona 2019, Google released version 1.2 of its cross-platform UI framework Flutter. The updated framework is set to help developers more easily accept in-app payments and features support for Android App Bundles, which is Google’s upload format for instant apps and packaging Android...
In recent years, restaurant mobile apps and digital ordering have been on the rise. According to The NPD Group’s "Delivering Digital Convenience" report, restaurant digital orders have grown at an annual rate of about 23% from 2013 to 2017 and are expected to continue this...
Pullstring, a voice app design and publishing startup, has been acquired by Apple, according to Axios’ Ina Friedt and Dan Primack. Back in 2011, the San Francisco startup was founded by former Pixar executives to create voice experience design tools for toy products. Notably, their technology...
