Microsoft invested $15 million in location sharing app Foursquare in February this year. Today, the company has integrated Foursquare’s data into Cortana, its own digital voice assistant.
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LinkedIn has given its mobile apps a major overhaul. The update which aims at making connections stronger, revamps user profiles on mobile. It adds contextal information to the profiles thereby making it easy to initiate conversations with new people.
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Google is developing a Knowledge graph tool that pulls data from Wikipedia to create interactive timelines based on the item being searched. The feature generates content from Wikipedia in a periodic manner about search queries.
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Microsoft has updated Outlook.com for Android with several features. The app now syncs email history and adds the ability to access them in the cloud. The update also adds unlimited syncing of emails and these can be checked even when a user is offline.
Yesterday, there were reports about Google and Motorola working on a large screen Nexus device that is code named Shamu. Today, a new report from The Information is adding more support to the previous report stating that the duo is in fact working on a “phablet sized device”.
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Facebook is killing the ability for users to send and receive message from its mobile app on Android and iPhone. The social network is forcing users to download the standalone messenger app as it is separating it from the main app.
Google has added a brand new section to Play Store that is dedicated to offline games. Offline games are those which require no internet connection at the time of playing of them.
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In a surprising incident, a customer who had ordered Windows Phone powered Xolo Q900s has received an Android variant of the same device from Flipkart. Xolo unveiled the Android version of the Q900s last week almost a month after launching a Windows model of the same variant.
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WeChat has introduced a new feature that lets you recall last message sent via its mobile apps on Android and iPhone. Messages can be unsend within two minutes after there are sent.
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Apple is all set to acquire radio service Swell for $30 million, according to report from Re/Code. The iOS app will shut down its service and CEO Ram Ramkumar along with other members will join Apple, a result of the acquisition, added the report.
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Earlier this month LG G Vista surfaced via press images. Today a user manual of LG G Vista for AT&T has leaked, confirming that along with Verizon, the smartphone will also be available with AT&T.
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LG is working on a 5 inch Windows Phone under the model number LG D635. According to Alan Mendelevich, the founder of cross-promotion network AdDuplex, the handset has showed up in the network’s database.
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Amazon has announced that it plans to open five more Fulfillment Centers (FCs) in Delhi, Chennai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Tauru (outskirts of Gurgaon). The move comes from the e-commerce giant to enhance its services to its customers.
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Microsoft is ready with an update for Windows Phone 8.1 and it looks like it is inching closer for an official release. Details about the Update 1 aka GDR (General Distribution Release) have been spotted on Microsoft’s Developer Center. The update includes many improvements for OEM’s and a few new ones for consumers.
Bose has filed a lawsuit against Beats Eletronics, alleging patent infringements of its noise-canceling technology. The popular audio electronic maker has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court claiming that Beats violated five different patents in the manufacture of its line of Studio noise-canceling headphones.
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