A recent Apple press release has stated that the company is accountable for generating and maintaining jobs to 2.4 million people in the Americas, through its own staff and those of all its suppliers.
The Cupertino-based tech giant, which contributes £73b to the economy every year, now contracts 9,000 supply companies across all the 50 states, and those suppliers back 450,000 jobs.
Google is now allowing app developers on its Play Store to tag applications with keywords and phrases for easy discovery. As reported by Android Police, the ability to add tags debuted on the Play Console just around a week ago.
The ability to tag applications will greatly help the Play Store determine where to place the app and...
Lightricks has raised $135 million (£111.3m) in its latest series C funding round that it plans to use to develop and accelerate powerful AI enhanced solutions.
With this financing round, led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing, along with other participants like Insight Partners and ClalTech, the Jerusalem-based software firm’s total financing to date amounts to £169m.
The latest data released by the Independent Game Developers' Association (TIGA) has revealed that the focus of UK studios has moved away from mobile towards other platforms over the last five years. According to TIGA’s figures, 40% of the studios in the UK are mainly focused on mobile in 2018 – down from 49% in 2013.
TIGA also revealed that PC – including retail and online PC games, social network...
Samsung’s Bixby Marketplace is now officially open for developers, according to reports.
As reported by SAMMobile among others, third-party Bixby Studio developers can now submit their Bixby Capsules before they reach the users.
The Bixby Marketplace is...
Google has announced that it will stop supporting the 32-bit Android Studio system software and the 32-bit Android Emulator from 2020 and will only support the more efficient 64-bit versions of the integrated development environment (IDE).
As reported by 9to5 Google, Google will end the update support for the 32-bit...
Apple is reportedly telling app developers to remove or disclose the use of analytics code, which allows them to record the users’ interaction with their iPhone apps.
While investigating into the matter, TechCrunch found that popular applications like Air Canada, Singapore Airlines, Abercrombie & Fitch, Hotels.com, Hollister, Expedia, and were using “session...
Arduino has announced the launch of its IoT Cloud application platform aimed towards developers, maker hobbyists, and system integrators.
With the help of Arduino IoT Cloud, users are able to develop IoT applications that solve everyday problems which arise in a business environment. Through this platform, the company aims to simplify complex technologies in such a way that it could be used by anyone.
Luca Cipriani, CIO of Arduino, said:
“With the launch of the Arduino IoT Cloud,...
Google has created a machine learning-powered anti-spam system to get rid of fake reviews from its Play Store.
The multinational tech company’s distribution platform has been plagued by millions of apps that hire users and companies to write fake reviews which boost exposure.
Google has officially listed three categories it classes as violating its guidelines:
Bad content: Reviews that are profane, hateful, or off-topic.
Fake ratings: Ratings and reviews meant to manipulate an app's average rating or top reviews. We've seen different approaches to manipulate the average rating; from...
Blockchain developer has been ranked as the number one profession on LinkedIn’s emerging jobs list for 2018.
LinkedIn’s recently released report, which places blockchain development at the top, shows 33x growth in the number of blockchain developers, 12x growth in machine learning engineers, 8x growth in application sales executives, and 6x growth in machine learning specialists and professional medical representatives.
Guy Berger, the chief economist at LinkedIn, said that growth can also be seen...
Microsoft has enabled functionality for sign-on using either a FIDO2 device or biometric tool Windows Hello – thus potentially paving the way to kill off the password.
The move will mean users can more seamlessly sign in to a variety of applications, from Outlook, Skype and Office, to OneDrive, Cortana and Xbox Live.
Writing in a blog post confirming the move, Alex Simons,...
TomTom has announced that it will be offering maps and traffic tiles on its mobile software developer kit (SDK) for free, in both Android and iOS.
As businesses adopting mobile to increase their sales, maps that feature office locations to customers have become a custom across all industries. With the free maps tiles from TomTom, which has global coverage, will assist start-ups all over the world in presenting their image as...
Only one in three app developers are satisfied with their in-app ad revenues, while fewer than one in five say they are satisfied with their collection from non-video ads.
That’s the key finding from Chocolate, with the video advertising vendor announcing its new App Developer Survey Report 2018, focusing on app monetisation. The report, which is based on responses from 102 app developers from 22 countries, provides comprehensive details about app developers' satisfaction with current ad revenues,...
Email and data security provider Mimecast has rolled out a new application programming interface (API) developer portal to extend business and cyber resilience for email with a constant, scalable and uniform API.
The Mimecast API developer portal is already processing a huge number of requests every day and is a key enabler for multiple Mimecast services and applications. Mimecast customers and partners need to visit the portal to take advantage of Mimecast security and archive data and integrate to existing...
SmartBear, a developer of software quality tools for teams, has announced the launch of the cloud-based Swagger Inspector tool to ease API validation process and help developers in auto-generating their OpenAPI documentation without any hassle.
The aim behind the formulation of Swagger Inspector is to help developers as much as possible in checking if APIs, be it REST, SOAP, GraphQL or other, are working as per their standards and satisfaction. The cloud-based tool also helps...
Google has announced it will only permit Android apps with 64-bit support in the Play Store effective as of August 2019, a decision that will force developers to retool their apps in order to stay listed in the store.
In the announcement, Google wrote:
"In the second half of 2018, Play will require that new apps and app updates target a recent Android API level. This will be required for new apps in August 2018, and for updates to existing apps in November 2018. This is to ensure apps...
Veritone has announced the general availability of its latest developer application, a self-service development environment that empowers cognitive engine, application and API developers to create, submit and deploy fresh AI ideas to life via integration with the Veritone aiWARE platform.
According to Veritone, the application is publicly available as a unique resource for experts in machine learning, firms associated with application development and system integrators. It supports RESTful and GraphQL...
Google has unveiled a public beta version of the Google Cloud Video intelligence API and has introduced enhancements in the Google Cloud Vision API by updating existing features.
The Google Cloud Video intelligence API, first released in March 2017, uses machine learning to make videos searchable and discoverable, by extracting metadata which is also used to index video content. Since the API contains a library of 20,000 labels, those not possessing extensive knowledge in machine learning or computer vision...
Apple will no longer support 32-bit apps on the Mac App Store starting from January 2018, according to a reminder shared on its developer blog.
The company has also asked developers to upgrade their existing 32-bit apps to 64-bit ones before June 2018. Apps submitted after January 2018 should also be 64-bit. The last Apple OS to support 32-bit apps would be macOS High Sierra.
Additionally, the company has rolled out the iOS 11.2 software update that comes with bug fixes for its iOS devices. The update also...
Android Things Developer Preview 6 has rolled out with a number of new features such as a dedicated IoT launcher, Android 8.1, and a command-line flashing tool.
Among the new features, the IoT launcher is considered to be the most significant as it displays the present state of a device through a new user interface.
The launcher can be used to configure settings and keep a check on new updates with the use of a touchscreen or USB input device. The IoT launcher is visible unless a developer provides their own...