Apps

In the crowded world of apps right now, standing out among picky consumers is extremely difficult — and it gets even harder when you have a game that is similar to those already on the market....

An app that lets people play the stock market without the risk of losing any real money has turned its virtual cash game into a pile of actual Benjamins, by closing out a $10 million funding round. The app in question, TradeHero, is made by a Singapore-based developer MyHero. Investors in the round are Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers China fund (KPCB China) and IPV Capital.

An apparent bug in iOS 7's Background App Refresh implementation is causing users of certain third-party apps to be kicked out of login sessions, forcing them to reenter their credentials every few hours.

Hello! You might notice that Apps of the Week looks a little different this week. You might also have noticed that our usual App of the Day posts were conspicuously absent. Things are changing, and we're replacing App of the Day with a new, improved, and Windows Phone-inclusive Apps of the Week. Let us know what you think of the changes, and please, enjoy....

On Thursday, iOS devices gained yet one more way to manage your financial details, thanks to the release of an official client for Google’s Wallet service....

Google Wallet has finally arrived for iPhone, two years to the day after it launched on Android....

Good news, Google Wallet users — you can now access your account on your iOS device with an official Google Wallet app. You can use it to make payments to friends, track your loyalty cards, and access nearby offers. One feature you won’t find, however, is tap-to-pay, which relies on NFC connectivity.

Earlier this week, Google rolled out a new version of the Google Wallet app for Android, which dropped the requirement that phones had to feature NFC technology for in-store payments to run the app. Now that this requirement has been dropped and Wallet has a new focus on loyalty cards, coupons and offers, the company is also bringing it to iOS today.

Google on Thursday released its Wallet transaction service for Apple's iPhone, giving users the ability to transfer money and store loyalty cards on their smartphone.

Google Wallet is getting a much wider audience today as it debuts on iOS. The app allows users to store credit, gift, and loyalty cards, transfer money to others, and theoretically ditch most plastic in their wallet — everything we've seen on the existing Android app. Google Wallet dropped its long-standing NFC requirement just days ago, allowing it to open up to nearly all Android phones, where it had previously been limited those with the right hardware. Expanding next to the iPhone, which hasn't...

Hill Ferguson ordered a smoothie. Using a newly redesigned app for iOS and Android, PayPal’s lanky director of product selected a peach concoction and paid for it with a couple taps on his smartphone. A few minutes later, he walked to a nearby Jamba Juice, strolled in, and was handed his beverage. No wallet, no credit card, and no waiting for anything: this is PayPal’s vision of the future, and it’s coming into focus today....

PayPal is adding a host of new features to its iPhone and Android apps, including the ability to order food ahead, pay at the table and receive store-specific offers.

If you have multiple credit cards stashed in your wallet, and you’re never sure which one to use for the occasion, Reward Wallet could be for you....

If the plethora of “aspirational” shopping companions have left you with something of a bad taste in your mouth for encouraging overspending, here’s a palate cleanser: a couple of newer apps for iOS, Dollarbird and Earmark, are focused on making responsible money management as enjoyable as browsing through personalized feeds of product recommendations. Well, almost.

There are lots of things you could do with a billion dollars – such as build a replica of the Titanic or attempt to bring dinosaurs back to life to build a theme park. Alternatively, you could do something a little more boring – like invest in profit-making ventures....

Dude. College isn't exactly a walk in the park. Thankfully, these 25 apps will help make your experience a little easier.

Welcome to college. It's a world where careful planning means sleeping until noon every day and no outfit is too skimpy for a Halloween party. It's a place of eternal pajama pants, Ramen noodles that flow like the proverbial milk and honey of the Promised Land, all-nighters and flip cup championships. We know you were too cool for school in senior year, but you still have a way to go before mastering your new domain.

In the span of a few short years, I’ve learned that my iPhone, among its many virtues, can be a valuable ally in making an agonizing experience slightly less agonizing. Take shopping, for example....

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week, we found an app that keeps track of how you spend your money, and another that helps you search your phone for content according to person, time or type of file.

Launched in the US back in April 2010, BillGuard sells itself as the world’s first ‘people-powered antivirus system for bills’....

What do you get when you cross a smart calendar app with a budgeting app? You get Dollarbird....

BillPin, the bill-splitting service based out of Singapore, has gone international. That’s to say that the service now supports 40 different currencies, which include Bitcoin and another monetary unit that transcends geography: beer!...

Getting burned on the stock market can be a devastating experience – as the co-founder of Singapore startup TradeHero can attest to. One of the reasons Dinesh Bhatia set up TradeHero, a mobile virtual stock market game, was because of the lack of information and therefore inadequacy in competing with bigger players on the market....

GoBank, the self-proclaimed first truly mobile bank, today emerged from beta with general availability to the public....