In A Rare Move, Apple Discounts The Apple Watch With New iPhone Purchases (In Some Stores)

 Outside of the deals they give students and the occasional Black Friday hook up, Apple isn’t exactly known for throwing around discounts. So here’s a wild one: Apple is experimenting with giving people $50 discounts on Apple Watches if they buy one at the same time as a new iPhone 6s or 6s Plus. Read More

Monclarity Raises $5M And Launches Its Brain-Training App Brainwell

 Startup Monclarity announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding from Access Industries. And it recently unveiled Brainwell, a brain-training app available on iOS, Android, Kindle and the web. Now, there’s been a lot of skepticism around brain-training games like Lumosity, particularly after a recent study of the existing research found that these games may improve… Read More

Forget Self-Destructing Messages, Buzz’s New App Offers Self-Destructing Connections

 Today, there are a variety of apps to choose from if you just want to privately chat with friends or even place phone calls without having to give out your real phone number – for example, Google Voice, Burner, kik, Viber, Whatsapp and others are popular choices. But these apps aren’t fully private. Users still have to provide a phone number or email when creating an account, or,… Read More

Google’s Lack Of Product Isolation Would Support A Chrome OS And Android Merge

 Chrome OS, the “cloud” operating system that Google introduced for laptops and Android, the operating system on phones and tablets may become one, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The “folding” could happen as early as next year…could be introduced at Google I/O…or not. I’ve personally spoken to sources over the past few years about… Read More

MobileIron Posts Lower-Than-Expected FQ3 Loss Of $0.20 Per Share Off Revenue Of $38M

 Following the bell, device management shop MobileIron announced its fiscal third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $38 million, and adjusted profit of negative $0.20. Using normal accounting techniques, the company lost a stiffer $0.30 per share. Investors had expected MobileIron to lose an adjusted $0.20 per share, off of $37.61 million in revenue. The company’s… Read More

Facebook Turns Photos Into Dynamic “Slideshow” Ads For The Developing World’s Slow Connections

 Facebook has hit user saturation in its core developed world markets, so to boost revenue, it needs to make ads work in emerging markets with older technology. But video, the hottest ad format, takes too much data for people with low-bandwidth connections to watch. So today Facebook announced Slideshow, an ad format that takes three to seven photos and auto-plays them as a slideshow with… Read More

TrueFacet, A Marketplace For Pre-Owned Jewelry, Relaunches With New Texting Feature

 If you were to collect all of the designer-label jewelry and watches in the world and throw them in a pile, TrueFacet cofounder and CEO Tirath Kamdar tells TechCrunch, over 40 percent of the pile would be counterfeit. Knowing that, buying pre-owned pieces of jewelry or a watch from another individual, or even one of the many jewelry stores across 47th street in NYC’s Jewelry District,… Read More

VSCO Takes On Instagram’s Boomerang With Its New GIF Creation App DSCO

 VSCO, one of the few apps to give Facebook’s Instagram solid competition with a photo editing application aimed at more serious mobile photographers, is today releasing its next new creation. DSCO, as the just-launched spin-off is called, takes advantage of VSCO’s imaging technology to allow users to create short, looping GIF images which can be shared to VSCO’s user… Read More

An Inside Look At Upthere, The Company Aiming To Be Your Personal Cloud

 The year is 2015 and yet the promise of the “personal cloud” has failed me. There are tons of drag and drop and syncing “backup services” but nowhere that’s my slice of the puffy white stuff. Enter the 80 employees and impressive pedigree of Palo Alto based Upthere. Read More

Giphy Expands Beyond Messenger With Its New GIF-Sharing App

 Giphy, the popular resource that’s becoming the web’s go-to resource for finding and sharing GIFs, has rolled out a significant upgrade to its flagship mobile application today, which sees the app rebranded from an add-on utility for Facebook Messenger users, to a fully-featured, standalone app for finding and sharing GIFs across a number of channels, including social networks,… Read More

Spacio Pro Plans To Supercharge Open House Showings With A Smart App

 If software is eating the world, it’s also eating our houses. The real estate market changed radically when companies like Zillow unpacked the data around house sales. In theory you’d think there wasn’t much to do on house sales, but there remains a relatively untapped area. One of the next areas of change could be be in the ‘open house’ market, where houses… Read More

OnePlus X Unveiled: 5-Inch Display, 13MP Rear Camera, Starting At $249

 We got a look at the new device(s) at a San Francisco event earlier this week. The Onyx version is available on OnePlus.net in the UK on November 5th for EUR269 and in the US on November 19th for $249. The invite window will be a month. The Ceramic edition will be available in Europe and India starting on November 24th for EUR369. There’s only 10,000 available, and for good… Read More

Microsoft Officially Unveils Its Arrow Launcher For Android

 There are a number of ways to customize an Android smartphone, but one of the more unexpected tools to emerge earlier this year was Arrow, an Android launcher application designed by Microsoft. This summer, an unfinished version of the launcher was discovered by way of a Google+ group for beta testers. But, today, the app has gone live on the Google Play store for all to try. While it may… Read More