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...
The competition in the app industry is already hot: In an interesting turn of events, Google is ahead of Apple in the App Store as the top publisher, according to App Annie's latest app index. (more…)
Google pushed out a neat YouTube update for iOS users: Now the app features a "send to TV" functionality, which enables the app to send video out on an automatic connection to a television set that supports the open protocol. (more…)
According to AllThingsD, one of Rovio's top executives, Ville Heijari, has left the company. Heijari was at Rovio for the past three years in charge of brand marketing but left the company last week to start his new position as the European lead for San Francisco company PlayHaven. Just as this news was released Rovio...
Since the introduction of AirPlay industry players have tried to take on this amazing feature and now seems like Apple has got company: namely, Netflix and YouTube have partnered up to launch DIAL, a protocol which sounds interesting to other players like Samsung, Sony, Hulu and BBC, GigaOm reports. (more…)
While Facebook and Instagram apps continued their run of being among the most downloaded apps of the year, YouTube and Angry Birds were the top free and paid apps respectively at Apple's App Store in 2012, reports Reuters. A lot of new games released in 2012 quickly joined the ranks of the top downloaded and revenue grossing...
Today appears to be 'update day' in the App Store. YouTube has just announced an update for their iOS app. The changes include support for the iPhone 5, better optimized viewing on the iPad, AirPlay support and more. Just in time for the holidays, now you can download or update the YouTube app with a...
While it's not yet clear who's behind this but it's certainly the coolest collection of TV ads on YouTube featuring every Apple ad ever aired on television, majority of which are pretty awesome (via The Next Web). Better check it out fast before it gets pulled! Though Apple's recent Genius ads were pretty crappy, there are far...
GigaOM has published a report today, claiming that Google is working on an open source alternative to Apple’s AirPlay and is planning to provide this technology to a number of software vendors to allow data exchange between second screens and TV-connected devices, a hint of which has recently been seen in updated YouTube app for Android...