At CES Ford unveiled five new apps for its Sync AppLink connected infotainment system: Domino’s Pizza, ADT, Parkmobile, Parkopedia and Gracenote HABU. It’s also launching its first developer conference in June.
There’s no American family name more associated with the automobile than Ford. In a wide-ranging interview, Bill Ford — Henry’s great-grandson and executive chairman of Ford Motor Company — says car companies need to be more like tech companies.
At its annual conference, Twilio didn’t just add MMS to its arsenal. It announced some impressive numbers: Twilio-powered apps now reach 350 million people, and it’s handling 4 million calls each day.
Intel Capital and others have put $9 million into Irish outfit FeedHenry, which provides a mobile app development and deployment platform, along with backend-as-a-service, for mostly enterprise customers.
Electronic health records company athenahealth is partnering with Mashery to encourage developers to create new apps on its service.
The Spanish telco has beefed up its enterprise cloud portfolio by integrating its recently-announced Instant Servers IaaS play with FeedHenry’s Mobile Applications Platform.
There’s a vast market for apps that tap into the human desire for self-improvement. But Boris Wertz of Version One Ventures says designers need to avoid relying on trendy gimmicks to woo potential users.
Mobile developers are getting a new cloud-based development tool called Icenium that allows them to build cross-platform hybrid apps without having to download a traditional integrated development environment. With Icenium, developers can build for iOS or Android from any computer.
