The fight over employee benefits when it comes to app-based on-demand services continues.
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Take that out of the equation and app-based publishing, like print publishing, is a cost-heavy, money-losing proposition.
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It does not mean that app-based gaming is crowding out other gaming, however.
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Unlike much of the iPhone photography market, app-based intervalometers lack a certain kitsch that plagues the likes of Instagram or iPhone lenses.
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These print subscribers also prefer their app-based news to be more like a traditional reading experience rather than to have high-tech features.
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Instead, here we have a smart, modular, near-universal app-based intervalometer.
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Being ahead of the curve on new developments to retail such as mobile payments and app-based loyalty schemes also may allow Starbucks to adapt to quickly shifting consumer habits.
The other is an app-based cloud transaction approach.
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In the not-too-distant future, the choice between multi- and single-purpose devices may be less stark than it has been, as some single-use devices have been adopting the technical features and approaches of the app-based devices in order to stay relevant.
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Craig Mod, a print and digital publisher who has written extensively about the challenges and opportunities of app-based models for writers and editors, sees 29th Street as part of phenomenon that will dramatically decrease the costs associated with the medium.
Back then the company was known as iSwifter, offering a flash-based iOS app focused predominately on cloud-based delivery of casual and social games.
This product also showcases the many advantages that make PSoC the perfect solution for designers of iOS-based 'app-cessory' products.
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It has that much of smartphone units, but it has nothing like that much of the addressable market for the typical VC-based mobile app-focused startup in London, San Francisco or Berlin.
The search giant also faces another related challenge - Amazon has opted to pre-load a Nokia-powered Maps app on its Android-based Kindle Fire tablets.
Carlos Diaz, founder and CEO of Kwarter, a San Francisco-based app developer, recognized the by-the-minute involvement of sports fans watching live games, and he wanted to create a product that could actively engage those fans at a play-by-play level.
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The app offered location-based services linking users to vendors featured on the show as well as thousands of others across North America.
However, on the Windows RT variant of the system - which will power cheaper tablets running on ARM-based chips - app publishers will only be able to sell their products through the Windows 8 store designed for the touchscreen interface, with all its associated restrictions.
Last week, a social messaging app called Kik announced that an a HTML5-based web app platform it had created on top of its texting service could now send push notifications.
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Martine's small business team, which works with Antieri, built a videoconferencing app for a Florida-based home health care provider and an anti-drunk driving app for a Long Island entrepreneur.
Here Facebook is expected to also reveal an improved version of its iPhone app, Mashable reports, as well as an HTML5-based mobile app marketplace.
Kakao co-CEO Sirgoo Lee said his Seoul-based messaging app makes roughly half its money from promoting mobile games of third-party publishers.
The biotechnology-tools maker licensed an app called Roambi from San Diego-based start-up MeLLmo Inc.
Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, a 290-person note-taking app company based in Redwood City, Calif.
He now runs a company that provides real-time consumer survey data via a smartphone-based app.
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Facebook has acquired mobile location-based app Gowalla, the companies confirmed Monday.
But you would also likely see sets powerful enough to support some impressive app- and cloud-based gaming, as with the iPad.
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Highlight, a location-based app that provides information about people nearby, was one of the hyped new apps at South By Southwest this year.
The company is starting with PC-based app store but will eventually seek to launch the service on other platforms such as Mac since it is HTML5 based it is all cross-platform.
The creative team swelled to the size of a small film crew, including several actors, two photographers, a videographer, an illustrator and a handful of programmers at a U.K.-based app development company.
This app, which Seattle-based PayScale launched in early March in partnership with LinkedIn, easily enables LinkedIn users to compare their salary to their professional peers based on relevant data such as tenure and geography.
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