Facebook says outages due to ‘server configuration change’
The outage is yet another publicity problem for a company already dealing with privacy issues and regulatory probes.
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iPhone sales are falling, and Apple’s app fees might be next
A brewing backlash against the rich commissions Apple earns from all purchases and subscriptions made via iPhone apps could undercut the app store, which generates about a third of the company's services revenue.
Apple busts Facebook for distributing data-sucking app
Apple says Facebook can no longer distribute an app that paid users, including teenagers, to extensively track their phone and web use.
Google tracks users’ movements, whether they like it or not
An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you've used privacy settings that say they will prevent it from doing so.
In boardrooms or bars, apps translate for travelers
When you’re trying to communicate with a taxi driver in Tokyo or pick the right cold medicine in France, there’s only so much that rudimentary language skills, or a helpful concierge, can do to help.
Facebook scandal affected tens of millions more users than thought
Facebook is facing its worst privacy scandal in years following allegations that Cambridge Analytica used ill-gotten data from millions of users through an app to try to influence elections.
Carmel-based tech firm Lumavate raises $2.5 million in seed funding
The funding round included participation from locally based investors Allos Ventures, Collina Ventures, Elevate Ventures and former Interactive Intelligence CEO Don Brown, as well as others.
Ad agency execs create app for sharing items
Brian Phillips and Jacob Leffler, who co-founded digital advertising agency The Basement in 2007, launched an iPhone app last month that allows people to borrow and lend items that spend more time in storage than in usage.
Jones, wife to launch company that helps small firms with apps
AppHappens is a subscription service that gives clients a continually updated, branded smartphone application for engaging their customers.
Noblesville High School student creates app for hall passes
Pass Whiz, the app created by 17-year-old Zack Baker, allows students to request a pass to leave the classroom which teachers can approve or deny by tapping a button.
Q&A: Indy entrepreneur’s app tracks student attendance
Indianapolis entrepreneur Jeff Whorley in January debuted a smartphone app that tracks whether college students go to class. A wave of national media attention followed.
Fishers mobile app developer lands $1M in VC funding
Bluebridge Digital LLC, which creates and manages mobile software applications primarily for not-for-profits, announced Tuesday that it closed a $1 million round of venture capital fundraising and plans to double its work force within a year.
Beer technology firm buys N.C. company
Carmel software startup SteadyServ Technologies acquired North Carolina beer-app developer PintLabs.
Carmel-born Yowza!! app acquired by Arizona company
Yowza!!, a coupon phone app co-founded by a Carmel software developer, will be acquired by Arizona mobile commerce company Spindle Inc.
Avon firm enters competitive video game industry to promote reading
An Indianapolis firm that makes software for libraries has teamed with an elementary schoolteacher to improve kids’ reading skills by using books’ longtime nemesis—video games.
State, Anthem ask techies to solve infant mortality
Dr. Bill VanNess, Indiana’s commissioner of health, asked IT developers to create a smartphone app that the state could offer to pregnant moms to educate them about infant health and help them easily schedule appointments with health care providers.
Maker of app that helps not-for-profits gets seed funding
Cause.it, founded by students from I.U. and Purdue, was awarded $500,000 by Innovate Indiana.
Indianapolis firm launching dream-sharing app
Remember.com’s free Dreamt It app will be followed by a paid version with additional features.
Startups launch apps to facilitate good deeds
Two startup firms, Cause.It LLC and Trensy LLC, have created tools that link charitable behavior and consumption. Like the hit app Foursquare, the newcomers encourage users to “check in” when they show up at events or complete activities so they can earn rewards offered by local businesses.
WEB REVIEW: In often-frivolous app world, these can save lives
Dad isn’t just recording workout data or accessing records that already exist, he’s creating his own diagnostic information.