Mobile & Apps: This Week’s Top Stories // November 8, 2015

Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Google Photos Team | $30M Later, Struggling JavaScript Platform Famo.us Pivots | A Few Days With The Pebble Time Round | Apple Debuts A New “Shopping” Category On The App Store | Layoffs Hit Gumroad As The E-Commerce Startup Restructures | Remember When Google Tried To Start Uber In May 2005? | SFMTA Rolling Out MuniMobile Transportation Payments App Nov 16 |

MOBILE AND APPS WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 2015 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Drew Olanoff Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Google Photos Team Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team. The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million downloads over... Read More… Josh Constine $30M Later, Struggling JavaScript Platform Famo.us Pivots Famo.us' 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end. JavaScript rendering engine Famo.us has pivoted out of its hardcore open sourced engineering... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Reminder: Get Your Discounted Student Tickets To Disrupt London Disrupt London 2015 is fast approaching, and we still have some student tickets available for the show available at the hugely discounted price of just £100 plus VAT. those who graduated in the spring of 2015 (May-June 2015) can get in on the action. To get your discounted Disrupt student tickets, just send an email to students@techcrunch.com for more info. Learn More… Matthew Lynley A Few Days With The Pebble Time Round I’ve never worn a Pebble smartwatch for an extended period of time before. In fact, I’ve never really worn a modern smartwatch for an extended... Read More… Sarah Perez Apple Debuts A New “Shopping” Category On The App Store Confirming earlier reports, Apple today is debuting a new category to its App Store that will help consumers better locate mobile shopping applications. The... Read More… Matthew Lynley Layoffs Hit Gumroad As The E-Commerce Startup Restructures San Francisco startup Gumroad, which lets people sell products directly to consumers by way of quick and simple links, has been in the process of laying off... Read More… Drew Olanoff Remember When Google Tried To Start Uber In May 2005? The internet is a wonderful thing. It’s a place for new and fresh ideas, forums for people to discuss them. And well, ways to find ones that had been... Read More… Sarah Buhr SFMTA Rolling Out MuniMobile Transportation Payments App Nov 16 Out of beta and ready for the masses of San Francisco’s public transportation commuters, MuniMobile will roll out November 16, 2015. MuniMobile... 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