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Star Wars: Commander for iOS lets you build a base and fight for the Empire or Rebel Alliance

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by on August 21, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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The Star Wars franchise is just too lucrative to stay dormant for very long. Today, Disney Interactive and Lucasfilm are returning to the iconic sci-fi universe with a new strategy video game called Star Wars: Commander for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. If you’ve ever played Clash of Clans or other strategy games that incorporate a base-building component, you’ll have a good idea of what to expect here. Star Wars: Commander drops you off in the famous Tatooine with partner-in-crime Saponza; after a couple of tutorial missions you’re asked to choose between the evil Galactic Empire and heroic Rebel Alliance…

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Steller, a beautiful storytelling iOS app, makes it easier to find stories and interact with users

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by on August 21, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Steller, a beautiful storytelling iOS app developed by Mombo Labs that lets you create photo and video stories with an emphasis on design, has gotten a much-needed refresh that makes it easier to search for stories and interact with other users. The update finally lets you add comments to stories. It has also introduced hashtags, so you can use them in stories and comments, and in turn search for content through hashtags and keywords. To catch the eyes of fellow users, you can also @Mention them now. There is also a new ‘Explore’ page displaying a selection of stories that you may be interested in,…

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Drync for Android now lets US oenophiles pay for wine using Google Wallet

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by on August 21, 2014 at 12:59 pm
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Drync is about as all-encompassing a wine app as you can get, letting you track your top tipples, discover new bottles, create notes, peruse reviews, and even order in-app. Indeed, all you need to do is take a photo of a wine’s label, and the Drync app finds its availability, price, ratings and more. Having been available for iPhone since the early days, Drync finally arrived for Android back in 2010, and today this version that’s getting a cool new feature: Google Wallet integration. This makes Drync the first wine app to introduce Google Wallet, as far as we know….

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Ticketfly snaps up fellow live-music ticketing company WillCall to help take on Ticketmaster

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by on August 21, 2014 at 12:58 pm
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Social-focused ticket-distribution company Ticketfly has announced it has acquired WillCall, a live-music discovery app that makes it easy to find tickets for live shows in NYC, San Francisco and LA. We first covered Ticketfly way back in 2010, calling it the “fastest growing ticketing company in the market,” at a time when it was shifting north of 1.2 million tickets a year. Ticketfly started operating in 2009 however, and has been growing rapidly ever since – it was one of Facebook’s early Open Graph partners, letting users buy tickets directly through the social network. It went international with the acquisition of…

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WeTransfer now lets Android users send files of up to 10GB in one go too

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by on August 21, 2014 at 12:49 pm
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Back in March this year, WeTransfer launched its app for iOS devices, thereby allowing people to send files of up to 10GB for free without the need for any sort of registration. Now, the app is available for Android devices too. While it follows in the footsteps of the iOS launch, the app is actually a little more permissive on Android; specifically, it allows you to send pretty much any file from within the OS via the ‘Share’ button, rather than needing to launch the WeTransfer app specifically first. In addition to basic file sending support, the Android app also…

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