Mobile & Apps: This Week’s Top Stories // November 29, 2015

12 Gifts To Inspire The Next Generation Of Coders | Uber Chases The Perfect Ride With Back-To-Back Trips | Amazon Is Giving Away Unlimited Cloud Storage For $5.00 | How Mobile Apps Are Transforming The Job Search | Cortana For iOS Begins Rolling Out To Testers | Instagram Now Testing Support For Account Switching, No Log Out Required | The Many Ways Of WeChat: How Messaging Is Eating The World |

MOBILE AND APPS WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 2015 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Natasha Lomas 12 Gifts To Inspire The Next Generation Of Coders Are you buying a gift for a budding coder or hardware hacker? Kids today are truly spoilt on this front, with a very wide range of specialized kit that offers... Read More… Josh Constine Uber Chases The Perfect Ride With Back-To-Back Trips There's a secret equation Uber is constantly trying to optimize, where Uber and the driver earn the most money possible while the passenger pays the least.... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Get a Virtual Phone: System ROM for Nexus 5 with Hidden Space support Use separate accounts, apps and data for work, play, banking, kids and use a hidden virtual space for your most private data. Read more Learn More… Sarah Perez Amazon Is Giving Away Unlimited Cloud Storage For $5.00 Amid a slew of deep discounts appearing on the web today as a part of the shopping holiday Black Friday, Amazon has introduced one deal that’s sort of a... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Yarden Tadmor How Mobile Apps Are Transforming The Job Search Searching for a job is just like dating, banking or procrastinating on chores until someone else does them: It's something we all have to do. So why... Read More… Sarah Perez Cortana For iOS Begins Rolling Out To Testers Microsoft has now made good on its earlier promise that it would soon roll out a beta version of its Cortana personal assistant – a rival to... Read More… Sarah Perez Instagram Now Testing Support For Account Switching, No Log Out Required A feature Instagram users have wanted for some time – support for switching between multiple accounts directly in the app – is now being tested,... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Edith Yeung The Many Ways Of WeChat: How Messaging Is Eating The World In February 2011, I visited my friend Bill Huang who worked for Tencent in Shenzhen. Bill was telling me about their new messaging app, called WeChat, that had... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service