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We all know popular cross-platform messaging app WhatsApp is big, right? Well think again because the company is larger than you could ever imagine. Speaking onstage at D: Dive Into Mobile, AllThingsD reports WhatApp CEO Jan Koum revealed his company has exceeded the user base of Twitter, which has roughly 200 million monthly active users....

Popular inbox-clearing email app Mailbox has released an update today to bring some new features and tweaks. Snoozes are now 'smarter' as they have been adjusted based on the time of day and week, plus you can now swipe more than one email at a time (as many as you want). There are also some...

During the beginning of this year Backblaze teased their iPhone app would soon be available for download. The app has finally arrived and is now live in the App Store. Backblaze Mobile for iPhone let's you use your iPhone to access, view and share the data that you have backed up with the Backblaze online...

YouTube has updated its iOS app to bring access to live streams and also allow users to queue up videos to play on TV, which has long been a feature on its Android app counterpart. The sidebar also adds quick access to new videos from your subscriptions, plus the app gains some stability and performance...

Banks in the USA have long been able to deposit cheques via images taken with their iPhone camera, such as the Chase Bank app, which has had more than $3 billion US cashed since July 2010. Last March, a report by NCR in Waterloo noted Canada's 'Big Six' banks were in a race to offer...

Lululemon recently launched a new app called Om Finder, to enable yogis to locate yoga classes wherever they may be worldwide, using location services. The app allows users to find new teachers, classes, studios, get inside news from trusted local yogis, connect with the local community and also schedule for coordinating your yoga sessions. Users...

LinkedIn has confirmed it has acquired the news reader Pulse for $90 million dollars. Senior VP, of Products & User Experience at LinkedIn, Deep Nishar explains in a blog post how he first met Ankit Gupta, one of Pulse's founders years ago at a technology innovation competition in India--which the latter won. Nishar knew Gupta had...

Remember those British cases when children left in the company of an iPad racked up thousands of dollars in in-app purchases? Although some of them had a happy ending, in-app purchases offered in free apps have captured the U.K. Office of Fair Trading's attention, triggering an investigation, BBC reports. (more…)

Dropbox announced today it has added support for six more languages for its Mac, PC, Linux, Android and web users. As for iOS users? That support is coming soon. Instantly sharing your most important stuff with friends and family—no matter where in the world they are or what language they speak—can feel like magic. So...

Flipboard has announced since launching their 2.0 update last month which included a new magazine curation feature, the latter has resulted in over 500,000 magazines created in the past two weeks. As for other statistics, Flipboard says there have been 6 billion pages flipped per month by their user base of 53 million readers. As...

Waterloo-based Kik has announced its cross platform messaging app has surpassed 50 million users, currently adding over 200,000 new users per day. The company also noted over 25 million installs of their HTML5 apps have been installed via their Cards feature, introduced last fall. During that same time, Kik announced it had reached 30 million...

This week's free App of the Week from Apple is the popular game Fruit Ninja from Halfbrick Studios (iTunes will update later this afternoon to announce it). This is one of the most popular games on iOS and has some amazing gameplay and graphics to kill the time. Last summer to celebrate the two year...