Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address the many inefficiencies in our food manufacturing, production and distribution systems. As interest in food tech balloons, one area in particular appears to already be at the tipping point: Online and mobile food delivery. Over the last few days, we’ve hearing about a merger between two of the largest companies in the space. Rumor has it that “arch rivals” GrubHub and Seamless are in talks which could see them join forces as part of a merger . . . → Read More: Grubless? Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge
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Oh HTC. . . . → Read More: HTC Pledges To Pump Up ‘One’ Production While Samsung’s New Flagship Ships Like Crazy Google made a relatively quiet announcement today regarding how it’s pushing the developer ecosystem forward around Google Now, its intelligent personal assistant for Android devices. The company has begun extending mark up tools for emails from select partners, which help highlight flight schedules, hotel bookings and various types of reservations, to make sure that Gmail can spot that information and use it to auto-generate helpful reminders in Google Now. The extension of the platform tools available to Now partners was announced by Google’s Baris Gultekin, who was one of the creators of Google Now, which sprung out of a project he came up with in his so-called “20 percent time.” He spoke with Google’s Louis Gray on the Developer Live video stream which ran throughout the I/O conference this year. . . . → Read More: Google Now Introduces Mark Up Tools For Select Partners To Flag Flights, Hotel Stays And Reservations In Emails Consumers have begun to move away from two-year contracts and embrace the prepaid smartphone market . In response to this growing user base, Verizon Wireless this week announced that it is increasing its data allowance for prepaid customers. . . . → Read More: Verizon cuts prepaid plan prices, piles on more data Nokia is rumored to be preparing a 41-megapixel Lumia smartphone, codenamed EOS , that will be released later this year. According to WMPowerUser , the handset will look similar to Nokia’s Lumia 920 smartphone and will feature a polycarbonate case with a 4.5-inch 720p display. The device will reportedly come with a new application called “Nokia Pro Camera” to compliment the 41-megapixel PureView camera, which is also said to include a protective lens cover that automatically opens when the camera application is launched. . . . → Read More: Leak suggests Nokia ‘EOS’ will feature 4.5-inch 720p display, 41-megapixel camera Google’s Vikram Aggarwal, a software engineer working on the Android platform, revealed today that Gmail and Email, the native Android client that still ships on Android devices as well, now has a combined user base of over 100 million across the Android install base. It’s an interesting stat, because although Gmail and Email only represent two of a multitude of email clients available on Android, but ont he other hand it’s likely that those two represent the email clients of choice for a wide swath of Android users . . . → Read More: Gmail And The Stock Android Email App Combined Have Over 100M Mobile Users Uh oh. . . . → Read More: Apple Boots Bang With Friends From The App Store Google’s major developer conference, Google I/O , went down this week. Was it a bit of a letdown . . . → Read More: This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: All Google I/O, All The Time Yahoo has been on an acquisition tear of late, snapping up apps and mobile startups like they’re going out of style. Summly, Astrid, GoPollGo, MileWise, Loki Studios have all been acquired in the last month-and-a-half, while Yahoo simultaneously made a play for a significant stake in French video giant, DailyMotion . With that falling through, rumors have begun to swirl that Yahoo is making a bid for Tumblr, AllThingsD reported yesterday . . . → Read More: Amidst Tumblr Acquisition Rumors, Yahoo To Hold Product Event With Marissa Mayer On Monday Samsung and Apple have fought over market share and patents, and they may soon start fighting over supply chains. Samsung traditionally built its products using internal supply lines, but as its devices became increasingly popular the company has been forced to seek outside help. . . . → Read More: The next major battlefield for Apple and Samsung |
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