The startup company, Swiftly, just raised $10 million in its Series A funding round. The company will be utilizing its capital to grow software that improves real time data for transit systems across the Untied States. It is currently in over 50 cities and works...
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...
Startup companies traditionally focus on solving a niche problem which they can ultimately build a business around. Recently, India has seen a change in the mobile app industry where apps are becoming more widespread in functionality. Companies such as Truecaller and WeChat are just a...
YEC had recently posted an article highlighting 8 pieces of tech that are currently still on hot watch. Appetizer Mobile's CEO, Jordan Edelson, mentions how foldable phones have a ton of opportunity to make drastic changes in the tech industry for the future, but still...
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”...
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...
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...
Orai, an AI-powered communication coaching app, has raised $2.3 million in seed capital. The recent funding round was led by the San Francisco-based VC firm Comcast Ventures. In a recent TechCrunch article, Orai’s CEO, Danish Dhamani, said he founded the Philadelphia startup with Paritosh Gupta and...
Appetizer Mobile's CEO, Jordan Edelson, was mentioned in Forbes latest article regarding marketing strategies for user generated content. He briefly mentions in the article how creating contests combined with unique hashtags can help garner content leading to organic traffic to your brand. To read the...
