Mobile Phone

Google is rolling out a few new features to its Google Flights search engine to help travelers tackle some of the more frustrating aspects of air travel – delays and the complexities of the cheaper, Basic Economy fares. With the regard to delays, Google Flights won’t just be pulling in …

A startup called Cake has an ambitious plan to take on incumbents like Chrome and Safari to build a better browser for mobile devices. The company announced this morning it has raised $5 million for those efforts from Peak Ventures, Pelion Ventures and Kickstart Seed Fund. Cake was founded in late …

Instagram today made a long overdue change to its product that social media managers have wanted for some time – it will allow businesses on Instagram to schedule their posts. Before, there were unofficial means to aid with this – like tools that would send out a push notification to …

Smartphone adoption in emerging markets just delivered the highest number of app downloads Google Play has ever seen in a quarter. According to today’s report from App Annie, Google Play app downloads topped 19 billion in Q4 2017, a new record. That also makes Google Play’s download lead over iOS …

Qualcomm’s longstanding dominance in LTE chipsets for smartphones, and specifically with Apple’s iPhone, is getting a major hit today. The European Commission today announced that it would be fining the company €997 million, or $1.23 billion, for abusing its market position between 2011 and 2016, related to its relationship with …

For the past few years, one company has dominated single-thread performance in the ARM ecosystem: Apple. While companies like Qualcomm, Samsung, and MediaTek aggressively pursued higher core counts, Apple stuck to its guns, cranking out higher single-thread performance cores and sticking to a dual-core configuration for its high-end iPhone processors. …

Samsung has been at the forefront of the war on smartphone bezels over the last few years. Its curved OLED panels effectively erase wasted space on the left and right edges of the screen, but the top and bottom are much more tricky. Apple has famously punted with the iPhone …

Android phone maker OnePlus was forced to shut down credit card payments on its website last week after numerous reports from customers of fraudulent charges. Today, the company has announced the preliminary results of its investigation, showing that as many as 40,000 customers may have had their credit card details …

Yahoo Finance today launched a new app called Tanda that allows small groups of either five or nine people to save money together for short-term goals. The app uses the concept of a “money pool” – that is, everyone participating in one Tanda’s collaborative savings circles will pay a fixed …

WhatsApp today officially launched its new WhatsApp Business app in select markets, including Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, the U.K. and the U.S., ahead of its planned worldwide rollout. The addition of business profiles and new messaging tools aimed at business customers is part of the company’s broader plan to generate revenue by …