LinkedIn, the social network for professionals with nearly 350 million users, has been making a push into the area of anticipatory computing, where its platform effectively predict what information you need to know, when you need it. Today, comes the latest development in that strategy: the company has acquired and will be closing down Refresh.io, a startup and iOS app of the same name…
Humin, the app that aims to replace your iPhone contacts app is now in the App Store. Will.i.am, Richard Branson and Angry Birds creator Peter Vesterbacka were all part of the private beta launch a few months back. The app is now ready for everyone with an iPhone today.Humin hooks into your phone, Facebook and LinkedIn contacts and combines them with your calendar, email and voicemail to…
With 40% of LinkedIn’s 300 million users accessing the social network for professionals via mobile devices, the company has been stepping up a gear on its mobile business, adding new apps around specific experiences like job hunting. Today comes the latest development on this front, a new app called LinkedIn Connected.Designed as the next generation of its Contacts app …
LinkedIn announced Connected on Thursday, a complete overhaul of its existing standalone app Contacts.
LinkedIn has been growing rapidly in Asia-Pacific, as it announced today that it just crossed 50 million registered users in the region — that’s nearly triple the number in less than three years. The company opened its regional center in Singapore in May 2011....
In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “Android is Better.” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the industry, where developers building the next generation of mobile applications still heavily prefer the iPhone, not only as their personal smartphone of choice, but also as the launch platform for their…
Some interesting apps launched this week. The long-rumored Draw Something 2 finally made its way into the App Store, and popular Android app Drippler finally made its way to iOS. Amazon released a new version of its Kindle app for Android, borrowing some design elements from the Kindle version of the app, and Nike launched a new app for its Fuel Band that lets you share not only information about your latest run with friends but photos as well.
It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week we found an app that helps you voice your opinion about different topics, and another that will help you get where you're trying to go.
LinkedIn has become the default online resume, but now it’s hoping to take over the address book on your phone. The company has just announced LinkedIn Contacts, a new iPhone app and web tool that takes the messages, contacts, and events that you have strewn across a myriad of accounts and turns them into histories between you and everyone that you've ever connected with online. The app is LinkedIn's big play to integrate into your contacts list, and it's doing it by building a brand new one — one that...