This week, Google rolled out an iPad-focused update to its Gmail for mobile apps, which can be downloaded for free in the Apple iTunes Store.
Tags: IOS
Brooklyn laundry startup FlyCleaners raises $2 million in seed fund
New York-based venture capital firm Zelkova Ventures and several angel investors have committed $2 million in seed funding for North Brooklyn on-demand laundry startup FlyCleaners.
Minnesota's JAMF Software snags $30M for Apple's enterprise push
Minnesota-based mobile device management software maker JAMF Software, which focuses exclusively on Apple gadgets, has raised USD30 million to drive product development and expand industry partnerships.
San Francisco startup nWay raises 5M for ChronoBlade MMO game
San Francisco-based gaming startup nWay has raised USD5 million in a funding round led by Translink Capital to build out its ChronoBlade massively multiplayer online (MMO) game.
US digital media firm Flipboard confirms raising further $50M in third funding round
Palo Alto, California-based digital magazine service Flipboard has confirmed with VentureBeat that it is raising a further USD50 million as the second half of its third funding round.
Latest News
San Francisco-based mobile gaming powerhouse TinyCo landed USD20 million in a funding round from Pinnacle Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, to be used for the development of its iOs and Android games.
Tech startup Tablo launched on crowdfunding site Indiegogo to raise funds for its new over-the-air DVR project.
The amount of USD6 million was raised by Flint Mobile from its capital investors. The market leader in easy swipe free payments and mobile business integration, Flint Mobile, announced the receipt of USD6 million worth of new capital funds during the Street Fight Summit in New York.
Stuart Jeffrey, Nomura Equity Research's analyst, said BlackBerry would be lucky to receive bids higher than USD12 to USD13, even from an "optimistic buyer."
Analysts said there's nothing wrong with Apple grabbing the silver medal since it also took a third of the global market share.
BlackBerry lost its third place position in a race for major smartphone platforms. Even with the launch of the latest mobile operating system and some new smartphones, BlackBerry still keeps on failing to establish a major smartphone platform that could be behind the lead of Android from Google and iOS from Apple Inc.
Microsoft launched a new tool that would help it increase the number of apps in its mobile platform.
BlackBerry began testing its BlackBerry Messenger services on Android and iOS devices. BlackberryOS. com reported that iPhone and Android users could already use the services of BlackBerry Messenger.
Android posted a massive increase in the latest quarterly report for tablets, while Apple's iOS continued to decline.
