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Apple and Google are reportedly wooing mobile game makers as they seek exclusivity

Apr21
by on April 21, 2014 at 5:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile

Apple and Google are reportedly offering mobile game developers a bevy of incentives — including premium promotional positions in their respective app stores — in order to secure exclusive rights to hot titles. That’s according to a Wall Street Journal report which — citing sources — says that Apple used incentives to land a two-month window of exclusivity for EA’s ‘Plants vs Zombies 2′ game last year, and to secure a three-month exclusive for Zepto Lab’s ‘Cut the Rope’. Both titles featured prominently in the App Store’s featured sections, making them more visible to users. Neither Apple nor Google is…

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Facebook is reportedly building a mobile ad network, to be announced on April 30

Apr21
by on April 21, 2014 at 5:16 am
Posted In: advertising, Around the Web, mobile ads

Facebook will unveil its plans for a mobile ad network at its F8 conference on April 30, according to a Re/code report. This comes after Facebook started testing ads in third-party mobile apps earlier this year, signalling a move towards working directly with its partners rather than outsourcing the work to an outside ad-serving platform. Re/code reports that Facebook will appeal to publishers and developers by leveraging the social network’s database to create more precise ad targeting. We have reached out to Facebook for comment and will update with any response provided. Twitter recently also started to step up its focus on…

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Two prominent Twitter accounts get blocked in Turkey following apparent court order

Apr20
by on April 20, 2014 at 7:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, twitter turkey

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Turkey’s effort to quell anti-government sentiment on Twitter continues this weekend after two prominent accounts were seemingly blocked from the service’s estimated 10 million users in Turkey, as Reuters reports. The accounts – @HARAMZADELER333 and @BASCALAN – have been used to disseminate information that purportedly implicates Turkey’s Prime Minsiter and other senior politicians in much-rumored corruption scandals, and are followed by 537,000 and 431,000 Twitter users respectively. Both accounts show up fine for overseas users, but those accessing Twitter from Turkey are barred from viewing their content, as screenshots tweeted by users in the country show: Twitter @HARAMZADELER333 ve @BASCALAN hesablarına Türkiyədən girişinə qadağa…

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PhotoSweeper for Mac whisks away duplicate images

Apr20
by on April 20, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Reviews, Product Updates

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When your computer slows down to a crawl and you figure out that it’s because your hard drive is stuffed to the gills, you need to do some house cleaning. Your photo collection is likely a good place to start, and Overmacs’ newly updated PhotoSweeper can swiftly scrub out space-wasting photo duplicates. It may be easy to identify images with the same file number, even if they are located in different folders, but multiply that by hundreds or thousands of photos, and the task becomes overwhelming. PhotoSweeper delves into your photo libraries and you can get started by searching for…

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