May 15th, 2013
Warner Music Group CEO Steve Cooper has been telling analysts why he thinks an Apple streaming-radio service would be a good thing for the music industry.
"We, I think, as well as the rest of the industry...
May 13th, 2013
Apple has forced LINE to remove virtual gifting from its iOS app. LINE announced the news on its blog: “We received a request directly from Apple who operates the App Store, that this sticker gifting...
May 13th, 2013
Mobile industry analyst Asymco has been crunching some more Apple figures, coming up with an average annual spend for iTunes users across apps, music, video and books.
The number? $40 a year each, based...
May 10th, 2013
Facebook is reportedly set to spend $1bn to acquire Israeli navigation app Waze. The news comes from Israeli news site Calcalist, which has a strong record on local tech news. It comes just months after...
May 10th, 2013
Apple has been working on a Pandora-style personal radio service for iOS – dubbed 'iRadio' by us hacks – for some time. When will it launch? That depends on signing the necessary licensing deals.
The...
May 10th, 2013
Smart mobile devices? That's a category including smartphones, tablets AND notebooks (laptop computers), useful for analysts because it more-clearly compares sales of the first two categories with the...
May 7th, 2013
Apple has increased its share of the US smartphone market to 39%, although Android holds firm as the number one smartphone platform, according to comScore. Both Apple and Samsung increased their share...
April 29th, 2013
‘Facebook for news’ start up Wavii has confirmed that it has been bought by Google. Wavii CEO Adrian Aoun said that the company would be discontinuing its app, which allowed users to “follow the...
April 29th, 2013
With in-app purchasing something of a contentious issue at the moment, Apple has published a guide to IAP on the App Store. The guide, simply titled Learn More About In-App Purchases, is largely aimed...
