We’ve known this was coming for quite some time now, but Google’s cross-platform messaging app - codenamed ‘Babel’ - has finally arrived and it’s officially called ‘Hangouts’. Replacing Google Talk and the “old” Google+ Hangouts, the new Hangouts becomes Google’s unified messaging service for all of their products. Hangouts is currently available as a native [...]

To date, the official YouTube “app” for Windows Phone, published by Microsoft, has been nothing but a link to the mobile YouTube website. That all changes today with the launch of YouTube for Windows Phone 8, a real native YouTube client for Microsoft’s mobile platform. Aside from browsing and watching YouTube videos, the new app [...]

The official Foursquare app for Windows Phone receives a major update today, bringing the app to version 3.0. The latest update provides full Windows Phone 8 compatibility, as well as lock screen notifications and the ability to check-in and share using NFC. Users can also now pin people and places to the Start screen for [...]

Facebook is starting to put their stamp on Instagram with the introduction of photo tagging. You can now tag friends in your Instagram photos, and photos you are tagged in will appear under a new “Photos of You” tab on your profile. You can choose to have photos you are tagged in to automatically appear [...]

Are you on Vine yet? If not, you probably will be soon. Initially overrun by tech nerds and bloggers, Vine has quickly gone mainstream, occupying a top spot on Apple’s App Store top charts for weeks now. Today the app gains two highly requested features as part of its latest update: mentions and front-facing camera [...]

Kik Messenger, the popular cross-platform messaging application, raised an impressive $19.5 million in their second round of funding completed this week. The round, lead by Foundation Capital, marks significant growth for the start-up, which previously raised an $8 million funding round and just last week announced 50 million users. The funding is significant for Kik, [...]

Vū Digital is aiming to make social content discovery smarter and more beautiful with the launch of their new Vū Mobile app for iOS and Android today. In their own words, Vū describes the new app as “a smart content tool that delivers rich personalized content to users through a beautiful gesture-driven interface.” On the surface, Vū is just [...]

We’ve been hearing a lot about Twitter’s new music app over the last few weeks, mostly from various recording artists teasing the service on Twitter. Today Twitter has finally unveiled the new app, officially called Twitter #Music, and it is available now on the web and the iOS App Store - Twitter promises an Android [...]

The coolest feature of Facebook Home is now available on iOS… sort of. The Facebook app for iPhone and iPad was updated to version 6.0 today, bringing Chat Heads to iOS users. Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer and mobile head Cory Ondrejka announced the update on stage today at AllThingsD’s D: Dive Into Mobile conference. The only [...]

While our friends to the south can enjoy the enjoy the full Facebook Home experience today, Facebook is giving everyone a little taste of their new Android goodies. Facebook Messenger for Android has been updated today, enabling the super-cool Chat Heads messaging feature for all Android users. Chat Heads should be enabled by default when [...]