apps

Movl Wants to Take “Kontrol” of Your TV (With a Little Help From Mark Cuban)

Lauren Goode in Media on February 9 at 2:34 pm PT

What TV-app start-up Movl plans to do with its fresh round of funding.

My So-Called Social Super Bowl

Lauren Goode in Social on February 6 at 4:19 pm PT

Last night, I took a rare break from social media and opted for a real-time, real-life Super Bowl instead. And somehow … I saw the same game everyone else did.

AllThingsD Covers the Tech of Super Bowl XLVI (And the Ads, the Game and Madonna)

Ina Fried in Media on February 5 at 2:12 pm PT

Ina Fried of AllThingsD liveblogged the game, the commercials, the tech and more.

Khush Tries Teaching the World to Songify Live (Video)

Peter Kafka in Dive Into Media on February 4 at 9:07 am PT

What happens when you mash up a karoke machine with your iPhone? A cool new app.

Path Now Has 2M Users, Having Doubled Since It Relaunched Two Months Ago

Liz Gannes in Social on February 3 at 5:00 am PT

Path got the second version of its product a lot more right than the first — and two months in, the numbers bear that out.

Stuck Like Glue: Zynga Accounts for 12 Percent of Facebook Revenue in 2011

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 1 at 2:05 pm PT

Zynga is mentioned 24 times in Facebook’s filing, but the most notable one is related to the game company’s huge contribution to the social network’s top line.

Treemo’s Appafolio Turns Brochures Into Offline Apps

Lauren Goode in Mobile on January 31 at 6:06 am PT

A Seattle-based start-up has launched an app maker for business users and marketing professionals.

Pulse Creates a One-Stop Shop for Election News

Liz Gannes in Media on January 31 at 5:00 am PT

Want to pull yourself out of the “filter bubble” and read political news from a wide variety of sources?

News Byte

Glooko Raises $3.5M for Diabetes Logs

Liz Gannes in News on January 30 at 5:01 am PT

Mobile diabetes-management company Glooko has raised $3.5 million more in a Series A round from its impressive list of investors, which include Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social+Capital Partnership, Bill Campbell, Vint Cerf, Judy Estrin and Andy Hertzfeld. The Palo Alto, Calif., company sells a $39.95 cord that connects to blood glucose meters and feeds data to a free iPhone app. The promise of the company is to elevate the geek hobby of quantifying oneself to the next level — health care.