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FreeMotion Inc. on Aug. 20 launched ‘Livmo’ for iPhone, a global news curation & multi-language text-to-speech readout app, in Japan, the United States & 153 other countries.
Microsoft has just beaten Google in the race for better search. It’s Bing search app for Android has got a new feature which is what Google was toying with for sometime. Now when you want more information on the people or things you’re reading about in your Bing app, you can hold down the home button to get contextual information, without switching apps.
Reports: The Verge, Search Engine Land, WinBeta, Android Authority, Techno Buffalo, Pocket-Lint
Japanese Internet giant Rakuten, Inc. has launched the Rakuten App Ichiba, an app store for Android OS devices. The Rakuten App Ichiba offers about 380 apps from 180 app developers. There are plans to further expand the lineup of apps in the future.
Reports: MobileWorldLive, TechCrunch, Digital Market Asia
LINE HERE lets users share locations with other friends & family members that have installed the app. Users start by creating groups, called location sharing rooms, inside the app, then send a URL to the people they want to share their location with via LINE, Facebook, or a text message.
LinkedIn has released a standalone app today called Lookup. This iOS, desktop, & mobile Web app is aimed at knowing your co-workers better, & is LinkedIn’s initiation into the enterprise space. LinkedIn Lookup has been designed as a solution to the Intranet problems some of the companies suffer from.
Reports: VentureBeat, The Next Web, SiliconBeat
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