apps News of 09/23/19

How Peloton Made Sweat Addictive Enough To IPO

How Peloton made sweat addictive enough to IPO image It makes lazy people like me work out. That’s the genius of the Peloton bicycle. All you have to do is velcro on the shoes and you’re trapped. You’ve eliminated choice and you will exercise . Through a succession of savvy ...

Tinder’S Interactive Series ‘Swipe Night’ Could Bring A Needed Boost To User Engagement

Tinder’s interactive series ‘Swipe Night’ could bring a needed boost to user engagement image On Sundays in October, Tinder is launching an “interactive adventure” in its dating app called “Swipe Night” that will present a narrative where users make a series of choices in order to proceed. This sort of ...

Tonic Launches A Personalized News Reader That Respects User Privacy

Tonic launches a personalized news reader that respects user privacy image Personalization technology can lead to better experiences as it allows apps to customize their content for each individual user. But it can also chip away at user privacy. A company called Canopy wants to change that. It has developed a ...

An Indian Startup That Uses WhatsApp To Serve Thousands With Chronic Disease Raises $5.5m Seed Round

Another startup in India is cashing in on the popularity of WhatsApp, the most popular app in the country with more than 400 million users , to build a business around it. Digi-Prex is a seven-month old startup that runs an eponymous online ...

The Emergence Of Super Apps In Latin America

Thiago Paiva Contributor Share on Twitter Thiago Paiva is a fintech entrepreneur, writer and investor. He is the co-founder of Liquia Digital Assets , an investment platform for international ...

IOS 13 Pushes The Envelope Across The Board

iOS 13 pushes the envelope across the board image Apple released iOS 13 , the new major version of iOS. This isn’t a groundbreaking release that is going to change the way you use your phone. But Apple has done some tremendous work across the board to improve some low-level features as well ...

Groww, An Investment App For Millennials In India, Raises $21.4m

Of the 1.3 billion people who live in India, more than 100 million of whom are using digital payment apps each day, only about 20 million today invest in mutual funds and stocks. An Indian startup that is betting on changing that figure by courting ...

IOS 13 Is Now Available To Download

Apple has just released the final version of iOS 13. This update brings many much needed quality-of-life improvements — and there are also a bunch of new features. The update is currently rolling out and is available both over-the-air in the ...

Google Chases Businesses To Maintain Its Payments Lead In India

Google on Thursday said it is bringing its mobile payments app Google Pay to businesses in India and adding a job discovery feature for users as the Android-maker rushes to maintain its lead in one of its key overseas markets before its global rival ...

Google Is Bringing Assistant To People Without Internet Access

Over the years, Google has expanded the reach of its digital assistant service to include people who own internet-enabled feature phones. Now the search giant is bringing the service to users who don’t have access to internet at all. At an ...

How To Profit From Valuable Peer Referrals Hiding In Slack

How to profit from valuable peer referrals hiding in Slack image Colin Bendell Contributor Share on Twitter Colin is Senior Director of Analytics and Strategy for Cloudinary , the co co-author of High Performance Images, and passionate about data, web performance ...

Google’S Parental Control Software Family Link Gains Much-Needed Features

Google’s parental control software Family Link gains much-needed features image Google’s parental control software, Family Link , is getting a noteworthy update today with the addition of new features that will allow parents to limit screen time per app, instead of the device as a whole, as well as let them more easily ...

Facebook Launches Portal TV, A $149 Video Chat Set-Top Box

Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box image Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming, and content co-watching. If you can get past the creepiness, the new Portal TV let you hang out with friends on your home’s biggest screen. ...

Podcast App Pocket Casts Is Now Available For Free, With An Optional $0.99 Subscription

Anyone who wants to download the podcast app Pocket Casts can now do so for free. Previously, you had to pay a one-time fee of $3.99 to access the Android or iOS apps, but CEO Owen Grover said this approach seemed increasingly at odds with Pocket ...

Andrew Mason’S Descript Snags $15m, Acquires Lyrebird To Let Users Type Text To Create Audio In Their Own Voices

The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the decline of broadcast radio. Now riding the wave of that growth, a startup called Descript that’s ...

Amazon’S Alexa Now Speaks Hindi

Amazon’s Alexa now speaks Hindi image Only about 10% of India’s 1.3 billion people know English. Yet, that is the only language Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa understands in the nation. That changes today. At a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, the e-commerce giant said ...

Facebook’S New Policy Supreme Court Could Override Zuckerberg

Facebook’s new policy Supreme Court could override Zuckerberg image A real check to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s control is finally coming in the form of a 11- to 40-member Oversight Board that will review appeals to its policy decisions like content takedowns and make recommendations for changes. Today ...

Snapchat Is Adding In A 3d Camera Mode, The Latest Salvo In Its Feature Race With Instagram

The newest version of Snap’s Spectacles already has a 3D feature that lets you see the world with immersive filter effects , and now the company’s flagship app Snapchat is levelling up. Today the company announced a new 3D Camera ...

Google Is Bringing Data Saver Feature To Android TVs

Google is bringing data saver feature to Android TVs image Google said on Tuesday it is bringing a set of new features to Android TVs to improve the experience of users who rely on mobile hotspots to connect their giant devices to the internet. The features, developed by Google’s Next Billion Users team, ...

SmartNews’ Latest News Discovery Feature Shows Articles To Users From Across The Political Spectrum

SmartNews’ latest news discovery feature shows articles to users from across the political spectrum image Even before the 2016 election, political polarization was increasing, with Americans so entrenched in the news sources they rely on that the Pew Research Center said “liberals and conservatives inhabit different worlds.” Now SmartNews , the ...