During theApple keynote announcing the iPhone 4S, there were two mysterious apps announced that would be launched with iOS 5. The first was “Find my Friends“, an app joining a slew of location apps like FourSquare, to keep tabs on where your friends and family are at any given time and vice versa. The second was theApple “Card” app, which enters the crowded but fruitful physical greeting card market. I felt like the Apple Card app was very well done, and could have a great shot at making serious revenue for Apple....

Although the focus of rumors about Apple’s iCloud service have swirled around it’s syncing features and music streaming applications, it may have one more trick up its sleeve in the form of TV and Movie streaming, claims a newreportfrom Cnet. Reportedly, Apple has been negotiating with several of the major Hollywood film studios to procure licenses to store customers movies on Apple’s servers and allow those customers to stream them to their portable devices and perhaps the Mac....

Apple’s new “iconic” iPad TV commercial highlights various apps that have made the iPad such an amazing and innovative device. Since the launch of the iPad we’ve reviewed quite a few apps here at The Next Web and we thought we’d share with you a round-up of few that we really liked in the spirit of Apple’s new commercial. FlipboardNews What we said: Calling all Scaleup founders! Join the Soonicorn Summit on November 28 in Amsterdam....

Hipster, an under the radar company based in SOMA, San Francisco says it’s building a fun way to uncover the vast amount of information about real-world locations that isn’t yet available online. The company was founded in 2010 by Doug Ludlow, Ethan Czahor, and Steffen Hoffman. Yesterday,they publisheda rather interesting job post, seeking to hire both mobile and Ruby engineers. The stunt is that if you apply or refer a friend, “you could win $10,000, a year’s supply of PBR, and so much more…”...

At TNW, we are fans of simple, well-designed apps that focus on a single task and do them really well. It’s no surprise therefore that we are impressed by Web appApps & Orangesby UX designer Brian Morykon and developer Matt Pantana. If you’ve ever logged on to Twitter and asked your followers to recommend the best cooking recipes app for your iPad or the best time-tracking Web app in the business, you know that it’s always tough to make your choice from among the many disparate responses you get....