Mobile Minutes: Facebook app's new feature; Yahoo's mobile sales; TripAdvisor's mobile strategy; Glucose-monitoring app
Facebook is testing a voice-to-text feature for its
Messenger app
Facebook Messenger offers the ability to send voice clips to your friends
without typing any text. Now Facebook is testing a feature that helps people
read the voice clips that were received instead of having to play them out
loud.
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Yahoo?s mobile sales now make up 20 percent of total revenue
Yahoo?s revenue fell yet again this past quarter, but investors might take
solace in CEO Marissa Mayer?s quote emblazoned at the top of the company?s
press release: Sales of ads from mobile devices rose 23 percent in the fourth
quarter and now make up about one-fifth of total sales.
Read more on Wall Street Journal
TripAdvisor mobile strategy: Forget ads on those tiny
screens, instead optimize for clicks and commissions
Through both in-house innovation and acquisitions, TripAdvisor has launched
numerous enhancements to its services in the last several months. The most profound of these is on the
TripAdvisor platform with Instant Booking that allows travelers to immediately
book their choice of hotel or attraction within the app.
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First medical app system to monitor glucose cleared in
U.S.
DexCom Inc. won U.S. clearance for the first system of glucose-monitoring apps
that can be used with mobile devices such as the iPhone to remotely track the
health of a diabetic.
Read more on Bloomberg