Food deal app Hooked launches in Orem/Provo area

September 28, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes If there’s two things college students love, it’s food and good deals. Thanks to popular food and drink app in college towns, Hooked, students in Orem and Provo now have access to both. Founded in 2011 by childhood friends Tim Rothwell and Brett Berman, Hooked is a free mobile app that collaborates with local restaurants […]

Student develops app to help solve issues with Canvas

August 24, 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute After experiencing frustrations from professors constantly altering files on Canvas, computer science student Drew Royster has developed an app, Canvas FileSync, to resolve the issue. Available as a desktop application, Canvas FileSync adds a file-syncing feature to Canvas. The app downloads all the files from Canvas onto a user’s computer, and updates the files automatically […]

Facebook Snaps Instagram for $1 Billion

April 12, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes In a move that is likely to have widespread repercussions in the world of social media, Facebook, the social network, has purchased Instagram, a free mobile photo-sharing app for $1 billion.   Instagram has been around for just over a year and a half and is already worth more than most companies today. The popular […]