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Apple Appoints Jeff Williams As New COO

Former Apple Watch chief Jeff Williams promoted as Phil Schiller takes over App Store duties

NHS Uses Tinder To Find Young Organ Donors

Dating app Tinder teams up with NHS to encourage young people to donate organs

Post App Era, Or Post App Experience?

Mubaloo’s Alana Pearson explains how the role of apps is changing for both businesses and consumers

IBM Opens Up Security App Exchange To Tackle Cybercrime

Opening up IBM Security QRadar will allow sharing of new apps and knowledge on the latest threats

Facebook Closes Its Creative Labs

Apps including Slingshot, Rooms and Riff all biting the dust, Facebook confirms

Escaping The Walled Garden – Four Ways An Open Fintech Ecosystem Will Revolutionise Finance

Thomson Reuters’ Albert Lojko explains how open markets and developer ecosystems are changing the fintech industry

Microsoft Unveils App Creation Platform PowerApps

Microsoft says PowerApps is is “an enterprise service for innovators” to connect, create and share business apps with your team

10 Of The Best Map Apps

Here to get you from A to B is our guide to the world’s best map apps

All Aboard! HackTrain Event Aims To Use Data To Solve Rail Industry’s Problems

Teams of developers and designers on a weekend train journey will work on innovative railway projects to improve the rail travel experience

Spotify Uses Listening Algorithms To Recommend Nearby Concerts

New feature alerts listeners to concerts they might like to attend based on music preferences

Preview: First Major Windows 10 Update Targets Businesses

Microsoft’s first major update to Windows 10 brings enterprise enhancements and smarter Cortana

7 Ways To Improve Microsoft Application and Technology Stack Performance

Alessandro Porro, VP international sales, Ipswitch, discusses how a new approach to application monitoring can quickly pay dividends for IT Professionals

10 Of The Best Puzzle Games For Smartphones And Tablets

Tease your brain with our guide to the best puzzle games

Evernote Shuts Down Three Offices, Lays Off 47 Staff

Evernote CEO pens restructuring blog post and as the productivity app looks to make more revenue

10 Of The Best Money Saving Apps

Spend a penny with our guide to some of the best money saving apps around

Many NHS Health Apps Leak Data, Study Finds

Many NHS-accredited health apps have poor privacy standards and don’t secure customer data, study finds

Apple App Store Hit By Major Malware Attack

‘Hundreds’ of apps are hit in major attack on the App Store

SAP To Develop Smartphone App For Migrant Registration

As Germany closes its borders, SAP is reportedly developing an app to register migrants

Google Raises The Cloud Apps Bar With Powerful New Docs Features

In its never-ending battle for dominance in the cloud applications market, Google has brought some powerful and mobile-friendly new features to Google Docs

Spotify Users Angered Over New Privacy Policy

Spotify wants access to a whole new cache of user data, including photos, social media and location

IT Life: TruBe Or Not TruBe?

Jonathan Chong, CTO of TruBe, talks us through his tech heroes, villains and comic book art

Microsoft Offers $500k Bonus To HoloLens App Developers

Five grants and HoloLens headsets are on offer to successful applicants

Hackers Are Now Demolishing, Breaking and Hijacking Apple’s iOS

Researchers at tech security firm FireEye have detailed new types of iOS attacks

German Data Centres Put NTT Comms On “Good Footing” For Privacy-Concerned Europe

WATCH: VP Product Strategy at NTT Comms, Len Padilla, answers questions on the firm’s e-shelter purchase, apps in the cloud and SDN

Docker Container Apps Hit The Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Microsoft takes a curated, app store-like approach to spinning up containerized apps on its cloud

10 Apps To Book Hotels

After the party, it’s the hotel lobby – and then to that superb hotel room you’ve booked with one of these excellent hotel booking apps.

Mobile App Flaw Exposes ‘Billions’ Of Records

Heartbleed-like security flaw found in thousands of top Android and iOS apps