Apps and Software

Apple is pinning some of its hopes to Pinterest to improve app discovery.

Pinterest, the popular social bookmarking service, introduced a new feature that lets users share and discover apps for iPhone and iPad on Thursday

With the option, called App Pins, users can tap an "install" button, which lets them download the application to an iOS device without being taken to a page outside of Pinterest

Apple, for its part, has thrown its support behind the effort by creating an official ...

Facebook on Wednesday launched a new platform called ThreatExchange for security professionals to exchange information about cyberthreats with greater ease.

Doing what it does best, Facebook has created a platform — or a mini-social network, if you will — but this time for cybersecurity specialists. The concept is that researchers and professionals can learn from each other, and help keep everyone's systems safer.

"Our goal is that organizations anywhere will be able to use ThreatExchange to share threat information more easily, learn from each other's discoveries, and make their own systems safer," Mark Hammell, Facebook's manager of threat infrastructure, wrote in a ...

Google will now highlight health-related information for related search queries, the company announced Tuesday

The data, which is part of Google's Knowledge Graph, will include symptoms and treatments for various medical conditions. Users will also be able to learn how critical or contagious a condition is or the ages a certain condition typically affects. In some cases, results will also include illustrations from licensed medical illustrators

Google worked with a team of its own doctors and the Mayo Clinic to compile and curate the medical information, which is sourced from "high-quality medical sources across the web," according to the search giant. ...