Mobile & Apps: This Week’s Top Stories // December 27, 2015

Samsung And Oculus Team Up With LeBron James For Virtual Reality Journey | Kim Kardashian’s Buttmoji Owns The App Store | Twitter’s Fiscal 2015: Up, Flat, And Down | Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil Talks Video In 2016 | I Heart You, So Please Buckle Your Uber Seatbelt | Games Like Angry Birds Friends And Risk Hit The Chromecast Right Before The Holidays | OTOY Looks To Give Developers The Tools To Build Lifelike Real-Time 3D Environments |

MOBILE AND APPS WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27 2015 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Drew Olanoff Samsung And Oculus Team Up With LeBron James For Virtual Reality Journey On Christmas day, the world was given a gift by Oculus, Samsung, UNINTERRUPTED, and LeBron James during the Warriors and Cavaliers game. The two companies who... Read More… Drew Olanoff Kim Kardashian’s Buttmoji Owns The App Store It seems like 2015 was the year of the “emoji.” I mean, a damn emoji was the “word of the year.” This year is ending with a massive bang... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Coming to Boston this February Join us for beer, good conversation, and a battle to the death on February 23, 2016 to see which entrepreneurs can dazzle and excite the judges in under sixty seconds. Get your tickets now! Learn More… Alex Wilhelm, Matthew Lynley Twitter’s Fiscal 2015: Up, Flat, And Down Twitter did not have a lovely 2015. The world-famous social company saw its revenue rise, its usage flatten, and its share price fall. The company failed to... Read More… Matthew Lynley Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil Talks Video In 2016 2015 was a big year for video — especially when it came to user-generated video. Now there are services like Periscope and Meerkat, which are enabling... Read More… Josh Constine I Heart You, So Please Buckle Your Uber Seatbelt Force fields aren’t real, at least not yet. Cars are dangerous. So whether you’re in an Uber, Lyft, taxi, or you’re driving yourself, buckle... Read More… Drew Olanoff Games Like Angry Birds Friends And Risk Hit The Chromecast Right Before The Holidays We’ve gotten a fair bit of play out of Google’s latest $35 Chromecast leading up to the holidays. The games are pretty fun, and you can’t beat... Read More… Matthew Lynley OTOY Looks To Give Developers The Tools To Build Lifelike Real-Time 3D Environments Around ten years ago, Jules Urbach was sitting at the table at his mom’s house, coding away, when there was a knock at the door. His mom answered, but... 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 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service