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Meetup Becomes A Messaging App
By Sarah Perez On mobile, everything wants to be a messaging app – even Pinterest, it seems. But in Meetup’s case, the addition of a new Messages feature makes sense. Most people are familiar with Meetup as being the long-time online home for local community groups who organize outings and other activities like outdoor hikes…
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Zend Delivers PHP Development Platform In AWS Marketplace
By Ron Miller Zend, the commercial company behind the popular scripting language PHP announced today, it was launching a PHP development service in the AWS marketplace, effectively making it a Platform as a Service inside the Amazon infrastructure cloud. While PHP is an open source project, Zend was launched in 1999 by some early developers…
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VMFive Wins TechCrunch Beijing’s Startup Competition With App Advertising Platform AdPlay
By Catherine Shu More than 200 companies representing a wide array of mobile and hardware technology entered TechCrunch Beijing’s (organized with TechNode) startup competition, but VMFive stood out with AdPlay, which lets users demo an app before purchasing it with no pre-installed software or SDKs required from developers. Read More Source: Technology
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Xbox One Getting Mobile TV Streaming, Plus DLNA And USB Playback
By Darrell Etherington Microsoft is still listening to fans when it comes to adding features to the Xbox One – a new update which will begin rolling out to people in the early access program this month adds a number of top requests, including media playback from USB or DLNA that will support a bunch…
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How Apple’s HealthKit Could Offer General Wellbeing As A Platform Advantage
By Darrell Etherington Apple’s HealthKit is coming in iOS 8, and while reports about the current beta version of the software paint it mostly as an empty vessel waiting for developers to build hooks that connect their data to the hub, and use the data volunteered by other apps and the user to inform their…
