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  • YogiPlay’s New Parent Center App Helps Parents Find Quality, Educational Apps For Kids
    10/15/2012, Sarah Perez, TechCrunch
    Menlo Park-based YogiPlay, the educational-focused recommendation service for children’s apps, is today announcing its “Parent Center” app is available across all major mobile platforms, including iOS, Google Play, Kindle and Nook. read more
  • New Netflix iPad app curates G-rated content
    10/10/2012, Gary Rusak, Kidscreen
    On the heels of launching Just for Kids mobile, streaming service Netflix has released a new iPad app for the US market that allows children to exclusively browse G-rated content. read more
  • Talking Tom Cat App Gets Turned into an Interactive Stuffed Animal
    10/02/2012, Doug Aamoth, Time
    Do you know any children? They go nuts for the Talking Tom Cat app. If you can’t relate to a kid, just fire up the app, hand over your phone and call it a day. read more
  • Apple no longer touts Maps app as 'most powerful'
    10/01/2012, Salvador Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
    Amid the furor over its new Maps app, Apple has deleted the description that it is the "most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever." read more
  • Zynga Board Games Bring Your Facebook Favorites to Real Life [REVIEW]
    10/01/2012, Emily Price, Mashable
    Zynga is making the move from your digital life to your living room with a new line of real-world board games based on popular Zynga franchises. read more
  • Disruptions: Your Brain on E-Books and Smartphone Apps
    09/30/2012, Nick Bilton, New York Times
    Last week, my brain played a cruel trick on me. While waiting for my flight to take off, I was reading The NewYorker, the paper version, of course — I know the rules. I became engrossed in an article and swiped my finger down the glossy page to read more. read more
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook apologizes for Maps app
    09/28/2012, Hayley Tsukayama, Washington Post
    Apple chief executive Tim Cook apologized for the company’s new Maps application in a letter posted to the company’s Web site on Friday. read more
  • Instagram Beats Twitter in Daily Mobile Users for the First Time, Data Says
    09/27/2012, Mike Isaac, All Things D
    Pictures beat words: In August, U.S. smartphone owners visited Instagram from their smartphones more frequently and for longer periods of time than they visited Twitter. read more
  • Facebook, Gates Foundation Team Up to Create Apps for Future College Students
    09/27/2012, Kate Freeman, Mashable
    Facebook hosted a hackathon in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Thursday, kicking off the foundation’s College Knowledge Challenge — a $2.5 million investment fund to encourage developers to make apps that meliorate the college process. read more
  • Duck Duck Moose puts $7M in its stew pot
    09/26/2012, Rebecca Grant, VentureBeat
    Ed-tech company Duck Duck Moose collected $7 million for its educational apps for children. The company designs and develops original apps that have met with impressive success amongst parents, children, and investors. read more
  • Mattel Expands Apptivity Toy Line
    08/23/2012, Jeremy Dickson, Kidscreen
    Further tapping the needs of tech-savvy kids, Mattel has added new brands including Fruit Ninja, Cut the Rope and Monster High to its Apptivity toy line that enables screen-safe toys to interact with apps for the iPad. read more
  • Forget Archery, at Camp in Silicon Valley We Build Apps
    08/23/2012, Victoria Barret, *://*forbes*/sites/victoriabarret/2012/08/23/forget-archery-todays-pre-teens-are-building-iphone-apps-at-summer-camp/
    It is the middle of summer in paradise and we are learning how to code and market iPhone apps. read more