With November 2013 now consigned to the history books, we thought we’d take a retrospective look at some of the more notable apps to hit our radar over the past month. So without further ado, here’s a quick snapshot of some of the best iOS apps to launch....
Asknative, the app that gets locals to answer your travel questions, has been given a mammoth makeover that makes it more of a social network for travelers rather than a Q&A service....
Timing is everything when it comes to snagging deals, and the travel and flight booking domain is no different. Hitlist is an app that aims to help travelers find the best deals to their favorite destinations, taking the hassle (and some of the expense) out of booking air travel....
Uber and PayPal have teamed up to integrate the payment system into the private car service’s mobile apps. Through this partnership, Uber customers can opt to pay through other means besides their credit cards. Not all users will be able to participate right now — it’s launching in five select markets: the US, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands....
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One feature of iOS 7 that had me quite excited was its ability to automatically download app updates in the background. Both iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks have a simple setting that lets your computer or mobile device automatically grab updates while on Wi-Fi, saving you both taps and time....
J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote, "Not all who wander are lost." Today, 6.32 million Americans are living -- and wandering -- abroad, excluding those in the military. Some move for work, others to explore their options and still others for education -- and then never return. Often, the most frequently discussed profession earning Americans gainful employment outside of the United States is teaching English.
Are you member of "Generation Procrastination"? If your savings account and retirement plan are gathering virtual cobwebs, you probably are. A recent retirement study by Scottrade suggests that Gen Y is getting way behind on its savings. The recession, mounting student debt and freelance or part-time jobs offering few employee benefits may be to blame for what one Scottrade spokesperson called that generation's laissez-faire attitude toward personal finances.
Did you know that today is National Cat Day? In honor of the occasion, private car service Uber has teamed with popular meme site Cheezburger to bring kittens right to you. The idea is that anyone in New York City, Seattle, and San Francisco can request a kitten delivery and spend 15 minutes playing with kittens and enjoy cupcakes — for just one day only....
Hermione Way works with TrekkSoft - a SaaS solution for tours and activity providers, enabling anyone to set up a tour company in under 10 minutes. Robert Scoble is startup liaison officer for Rackspace....
This one is bound to rile the airlines and seems quite apt with our very own Disrupt Europe conference currently under way. AirHelp is a new "flight compensation" startup which aims to make it orders of magnitude easier to claim compensation when flying to and from the EU should you face delays.
Travel app startup, TourPal, has just closed a $1 million+ Series A, with investment coming from a group of private angels for its offline travel maps app that includes downloadable (paid) audio tours for hundreds of global destinations. The startup had previously raised a small seed, of circa $100,000, also from private angels.
The Living Wallet looks like a regular wallet -- except for the small wheels on its sides. According to its official website, the wallet pairs with a bookkeeping app called Zaim, which works on the iPhone, Android, iPad and on the web. The wallet, created by a Japanese company, looks ordinary on the outside -- but inside, it's anything but. See also: 10 Weird Japanese Products That Are Actually Kind of Useful The wallet can apparently be set to two different modes, Save Mode and Consumption Mode.
As Apple's iPad takes printed publications to the woodshed, startup publishing platform Prss wants to enable a new generation of digital publications that "enrich content and inspire other people's lives, just by doing that."
Holiday attractions booking startup, GetYourGuide, which raised a $14 million Series A at the start of this year from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe to internationalise its content and zero in on mobile, has made good on the latter portion of its plan — with the launch of its first mobile apps.
As Apple's App Store nears 50 billion downloads, the company reveals the all-time most popular apps for iPhone and iPad.
Welcome to the new Apps of the Week, where we give you all the cool apps we came across in one place. Android folks, iOS folks, and Windows Phone folks, now you can all come together and live in peace, sharing in the joy that is a cool new app....
Frustrated with the tools currently on the market for publishing magazines for the iPad, Dutch company Prss has today revealed its solution – a powerful, browser-based, low-cost, collaborative tool for anyone who wants to put their own magazine on Apple’s Newsstand....
Sometimes an explanation requires more than just words. A new iPhone app called Shadow Puppet lets users generate narrated tutorial videos or photo slideshows straight from their phone. See also: Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time Users simply select images from their library, arrange them in the order they wish to share them, and use the phone's voice recorder to narrate the slideshow as it plays.
There are many thousands of apps. Whatever your goal, as Apple’s erstwhile advertising campaign proclaimed, “There’s an app for that.” But some apps are simply must-haves—whether for their functionality, their interface brilliance, or just their entertainment factor. Here are ten apps your new iPhone shouldn’t be without....
Fresh from its $45m funding round, curated same-day hotel-booking service HotelTonight has announced that it has expanded into Central Europe, adding hotels in Prague (Czech Republic), Budapest (Hungary), and Vienna (Austria). In addition to its expansion across Europe, HotelTonight is also adding a handful of new destinations in Mexico, USA and Canada....
Think about when you're out with friends, and someone says, "We come here all the time." Or you look at the clock before bed and think to yourself, "This is the earliest I've gone to bed all week!" Or maybe you're deciding what to do for Halloween, and you wonder, "Where did I go last year?" Are you ever curious if your perception matches reality? A closer look out our routines might reveal surprises in the way we live our lives, and even help us make decisions for the future.
Apple released iOS 7 on Wednesday, and debuted a huge visual overhaul along with it. Heavily textured backgrounds and dark colors are out, while soft gradients, thin sans-serif fonts and bright, bold hues are in. After looking at apps designed for iOS 6, Apple's latest operating system immediately seems out of place. Fortunately, many developers spent the better part of the summer preparing their apps to look at home on iOS 7.
Instead of making smart (or stupid) guesses about your estimated time of arrival (ETA) whenever you’re caught in a moving car on your way to meet your friends, private car hire startup Uber wants to ease such concerns and do the work for you....
Uber's making it a bit easier for riders to let others know where they are and — perhaps more importantly — know how much longer it's going to take for them to get where they're going. With a new feature called "Share my ETA," Uber lets riders easily send out text messages with links to a live-updating map of their location. The map opens on the web too, so recipients won't need to have Uber's app installed in order to view it. The app can also now estimate a rider's arrival time too, all as part of an...
