| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.02.2015 | Mobile Network Group Acquires Appsfire | Appsfire, a Paris, France and Tel Aviv-based adtech platform focused on mobile, has been acquired by Mobile Network Group (FR0010812230 – ALMNG).
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Founded in 2010 as a mobile application research com... |
| 30.09.2014 | With New Ad Publishers On Board, Appsfire Becomes A Solid Alternative Mobile Advertising Network | Advertising technology startup Appsfire provides some of the best interactive advertising formats on mobile devices. Yet, on mobile, Facebook, Google and now Twitter seem to be the overwhelmingly dominant advertising networks. To counter th... |
| 12.08.2014 | BuzzFeed’s Future Depends On Convincing Us Ads Aren’t Ads | BuzzFeed makes the majority of its money on ads that pretend to be content, but can it keep up this charade? Or, is the Starbucks-sponsored “10 Summer Emojis That Should Definitely Exist” no charade at all, but actually the future of media ... |
| 28.04.2014 | Mobile Deep Linking Startup URX Raises $12 Million, Launches Universal Link Service Called Omnilinks | Mobile deep linking – a technology construct which allows mobile apps to be interconnected in a way that’s similar to how the web itself operates via clickable links – took another step forward today. One of the top competitors in the deep ... |
| 24.04.2014 | Appsfire Launches ‘Brichter-San’, A Native Pull-To-Refresh Ad Unit | Advertising tech company Appsfire is rolling out a new ad unit again! This time, it’s called Brichter-San, and it’s all about taking advantage of the load time when you pull to refresh.
These are native ads, but the content is automatically... |
| 18.04.2014 | App Search Engine Quixey Acquires Competing Service Kite.io | Mobile app search engine Quixey, backed by $75 million from Alibaba, Innovation Endeavors, Translink Capital and others, has put some of those dollars to use by acquiring a smaller, competing app search startup, San Francisco-based Kite.io.... |
| 11.03.2014 | “Mobile ads suck” – Appsfire rolls out in-stream ad unit Sashimi | Most advertisements are irritating, but there’s something about mobile ads that make them particularly maddening. Appsfire wants to change that.
Today the mobile ad-tech company, which holds the strong belief that “mobile ads suck“, rolled ... |
| 11.03.2014 | Appsfire Launches ‘Sashimi’, A New Native Mobile Ad Unit For Timelines | Advertising tech company Appsfire is rolling out a new ad unit, Sashimi. Like its previous units, the company is experimenting with native ads on mobile. Sashimi is very reminiscent of Facebook or Twitter ads in your timelines, except that ... |
| 23.01.2014 | Tapstream Is Making Mobile Ads Smarter With “Deferred Deep Links,” A Way To Point Users To App Landing Pages After They Install | Mobile consumers today are becoming used to ads that redirect them to the App Store to install applications when tapped, but a new product from marketing analytics company Tapstream will now take things a step further. The company is today ... |
| 19.12.2013 | Appsfire’s First Ad Unit ‘Ura Maki’ Is iAd Done Right | Last week, app discovery startup Appsfire surprised everyone by removing its apps from the App Store to focus entirely on native advertising on mobile. The first iOS ad unit is here — Ura Maki is an ad format with an emphasis on app discove... |
| 13.12.2013 | Appsfire Exits The App Discovery Business To Focus On Mobile Advertising, Native Ads | It’s tough to compete with the Apple App Store. Appsfire, which has been in the app discovery business since its founding in 2009, is pulling all its consumer-facing app discovery apps in a week in order to focus on its mobile ad technologi... |
| 22.11.2013 | With New Developer Toolkit, Appsfire Wants To Kill “Crappy Banner Ads” On Mobile | Appsfire, the makers of a suite of tools for mobile app developers acquire users, keep them engaged, and manage their advertising, has today released the second version of its app marketing SDK, which is free to use. The SDK, now iOS 7-frie... |
| 06.09.2013 | New Report On Apple’s App Store Algorithm Change Shows How Even A Minor Ratings Shift Affects Top Apps | A new report released today confirms earlier findings indicating a mobile app’s ranking in the iTunes App Store is now taking into account ratings and other metrics in order to help determine its place on the charts. According to Appurify, ... |
| 23.08.2013 | Apple’s App Store Rankings Algorithm Changed To Consider Ratings, And Possibly Engagement | Apple may be testing changes to its iTunes App Store ranking algorithms, which see it taking into account app ratings and other new factors in the App Store Top Chart rankings. Whether or not the changes are more experimental in nature or i... |
| 18.07.2013 | Paid Apps On The Decline: 90% Of iOS Apps Are Free, Up From 80-84% During 2010-2012, Says Flurry | The trend toward more mobile applications going free continues, app analytics provider Flurry confirms this morning in a new report focused on app price changes over time. The company, whose analytics service now runs in nearly 350,000 mobi... |
| 27.06.2013 | Quixey Adds Sponsored Results To Its App Search Engine, Its First Step To Revenue Generation | Quixey, the semantic app search engine backed by $24.2 million from the likes of Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, is taking its first step to making money: from today, it will start to add sponsored results alongside those generated org... |
| 11.06.2013 | Why Apple Killed Genius For Apps, And What’s Next For The App Store’s Long Tail | Apple is no longer offering the “Genius” feature as a way to surface and discover new mobile applications in the iOS App Store in the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 7. Instead, the spot that used to belong to “Genius... |
| 02.04.2013 | iTunes URLs Appear To Be Losing Rank In Google Search | Google search is making it more difficult to surface iOS applications using typical user queries, like “Whatsapp iTunes,” “Whatsapp iPhone,” or searches by app name, for example. In the past, this would return a page of search results where... |
| 07.03.2013 | Rovio Pulls Down Paywall For Original Angry Birds On iPhone, iPad To Reignite Downloads On Legacy Games As App Of The Week | Angry Birds may be one of the most popular apps of all time, but it’s also not exactly a spring chicken. And so, to boost its downloads, publisher Rovio is now making the original iOS versions for iPhone and iPad free and getting named the ... |
| 18.02.2013 | Apponomics: 7 ways to make money from apps without ads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Monetization isn’t a simple process for us mobile developers. Advertisements, paid installs, in-app purchases — these all can generate ... |
| 18.02.2013 | Apponomics: 7 ways to make money from apps without ads | Monetization isn’t a simple process for us mobile developers. Advertisements, paid installs, in-app purchases — these all can generate revenue for mobile app developers, but they aren’t the only methods available.
Our friends in the industr... |
| 10.01.2013 | Appetite.io Detects Apps On Your iPhone’s Homescreen So You Can Share Them With Others | Have you ever been curious about what apps other people are running on their iPhones, and specifically those which they’ve deemed awesome enough to warrant a coveted spot on their homescreen? If so, then you’ll probably get a kick out of Ap... |
| 24.12.2012 | The Google Of The App Search Era Just Might Be Google | Only a few years in, and already the mobile application ecosystem has become an unfathomable jungle of applications – some 700,000-plus in the two top mobile app stores, Apple’s App Store and Google Play. And yet, we’re still waiting for th... |
| 18.12.2012 | Appnique looks to help mobile developers stand out in a crowded sea of apps | There’s no shortage of mobile applications floating around, with Apple’s app store alone counting nearly 340,000 apps created just this year. So, what’s an app developer to do in order to get recognized?
That’s a problem that a number of co... |
| 17.12.2012 | What The Twitter/Instagram Standoff Has Meant For Traffic To Instagram | When Instagram began to pull its inline previews of photos out of Twitter almost two weeks ago, many did not take that turn of events too well. Consumers like things easy, and clicking out of one app or site to go elsewhere is not always th... |
| 19.11.2012 | Appsfire 4.0 Combines Discovery And Deals Into A Fast New Recommendation Service For Apps | App discovery service Appsfire received a major makeover today, debuting a new app which now combines app discovery and recommendation with deals. Previously, the company operated two separate apps for this called “Appsfire Deals” and just ... |
| 19.11.2012 | 1,000,000 apps have been created for iOS (but Android is in hot pursuit) | According to social app discovery company Appsfire, today is the day that marks the one million apps have been created for Apple’s app store:
Breaking: today will mark the day the App store has seen 1 million apps ever created since launch ... |
| 19.11.2012 | 1,000,000 apps have been created for iOS (but Android is in hot pursuit) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
According to social app discovery company Appsfire, today is the day that marks the one million apps have been created for Apple’s app ... |
| 09.10.2012 | Neemware’s New Mobile Marketing Platform Gives App Developers A Better Way To Communicate With Users | Neemware is a newly launched mobile marketing platform for mobile developers which allows the integration of messaging, feedback forms, questions, alerts, promotions, and more, into mobile applications. You can think of it as something like... |
| 01.10.2012 | Hubbl, The App Discovery Service From Disrupt Finalist Hmmm, Goes Live On iOS And Android | In August, the founders of TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Hmmm announced their plans to shift their attention (dare you to say pivot!) to a new app discovery service called Hubbl. Today, Hubbl is available for download on both the iOS and Andr... |
| 04.09.2012 | Apple UDID Leak: There’s No Proof (Yet) Of FBI Involvement, But Here’s Why You Should Still Care | 12 million Apple UDIDs (unique device identifiers) may be in the wild, or at least that’s the claim from the hacker group Antisec, which has released a sampling of that data, allegedly retrieved from an FBI laptop computer. The actual leak,... |
| 17.08.2012 | TechCrunch Disrupt Finalist Hmmm Switches Gears: Now Building Hubbl, A “Gamified” App Discovery Platform | The makers of Hmmm, the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2012 finalist which had a different take on social networking, is taking their company in a new direction. I guess you could even call it a pivot, but as usual, “pivot” is too vague a term here... |
| 27.07.2012 | Slow And Steady Wins The Race, Too: Mobile Gaming Study Looks At Earning Potential In Under-Hyped Games | App store analytics firm App Annie released a report on mobile gaming this week, which focused on the earnings potential of what it defined as “long-term” versus “short-term” games. That is to say, it found that mobile app superstars with m... |
| 26.07.2012 | Study: The Top Words Used In Mobile App Titles On iOS | Wondering about which words are the most commonly used in mobile app titles? So was Appsfire, apparently. The company just shot us over the results of a study it ran to determine the top words developers are using in app titles today. While... |
| 02.07.2012 | Youappi Secures $1 Million To Address App Discovery And Distribution In A Chaotic Market | Youappi, the cross-platform app distribution startup which competes with Fiksu, has secured $1 million in seed funding from undisclosed Angel investors. It’s now launching its solution on Tappible, a monetization and engagement platform for... |
| 29.06.2012 | Looks Like Apple Has Changed Its App Store Algorithm Again | Last week we were alerted to an interesting tweak that had appeared in the Apple App Store: searches for apps were suddenly ranking results higher by user ratings and app descriptions, rather than the names of the apps themselves. Today, on... |
| 06.05.2012 | Scouting Deals? Use These Apps | Oh the “where do I find hot startups?” problem … VCs have been grappling with this for ages, resorting to such avenues as rampant gossiping, reading TechCrunch, informally tapping into early stage investor networks for intros to later stage... |
| 27.03.2012 | SecureUDID Is An Open Source Solution To The Apple UDID Problem | As we reported this weekend, Apple has started ramping up its efforts to deprecate the UDID – the unique identifier that ties a user to a specific device, like an iPhone or iPad. The company originally announced its intentions to phase out ... |
| 05.03.2012 | The Everything Project: Building A Google For The Mobile Web App Ecosystem | One of the biggest challenges we’re facing as we move into the post-PC era is the challenge of navigating through a disconnected web of applications. Bought and sold as self-contained packages of code, apps are independent little creations,... |
| 07.02.2012 | Want An In-App Notification Center? There’s A SDK For That | Today, mobile promotion and discovery service AppsFire is launching a new toolkit for developers called App Booster. Meant to boost user engagement and retention, two of the toughest challenges developers face today, the App Booster SDK (so... |
| 13.01.2012 | iCloud’s App Search Engine: A First Step To A Cloud-Enabled Phone | Apple has built a search engine for apps. It’s called iCloud – or more technically, it’s one aspect of the overall iCloud service. Using it, you can search through every app you have installed on your iOS device or have ever purchased in th... |
| 30.12.2011 | A Web Of Apps | It is remarkable to think that we’re in the early days of the app era, when there are already close to 600,000 iOS applications and nearly 400,000 on Android (source: Distimo). The growth of these app ecosystems has been rapid, exponential ... |
| 12.12.2011 | Apple: 100 Million Downloads From Mac App Store In Less Than One Year | Apple this morning announced that there are now over half a million applications available in the mobile applications-specific App Store, and that over 100 million of apps have been downloaded from the desktop software marketplace Mac App S... |
| 31.10.2011 | New Mobile Ad Unit Lets Developers Promote Apps That Are “Coming Soon” | Mobile marketing platform Appsfire is launching a new ad unit for iPhone that lets app developers promote the applications they’re about to launch. The “Coming Soon” ad doesn’t just announce the forthcoming applications, however, but can al... |
| 27.10.2011 | OccupyAppStore | It was the Nth time I've had this conversation in a board meeting, "We can't figure out how to get on the leaderboards. The app stores aren't working for us as a distribution channel."
To which I replied "All the app stores u... |
| 30.09.2011 | Appsfire To Amazon: Your Kindle Fire Logo Looks Mighty Familiar | Hey Amazon, Appsfire wants to have a chat about your logo for the Kindle Fire, that interesting, affordable tablet you announced a few days ago. They’re upset because it looks a lot like theirs.
Writes Appsfire co-founder Ouriel Ohayon:
So,... |
| 01.09.2011 | Appsfire Announces Open Source UDID Replacement For iOS: OpenUDID | Appsfire, a mobile application marketing platform, is introducing its own solution for the issue created by Apple’s decision to phase out developer access to the UDID (unique device identifier) on iOS devices. It’s called OpenUDID. As you m... |
| 15.06.2011 | Yahoo Tries Its Hand At Mobile App Search | If apps replace the mobile web, and along with it, traditional search, then the search engines need to figure out how to adapt. Yahoo is taking a tiny step towards embracing mobile apps with a few new products for searching apps. It is laun... |
| 14.06.2011 | Discovr Launches Awesome Tool To Find New Apps For iOS (Think Interactive Graphs) | At WWDC 2011, Apple announced that there are now more than 400K apps in its app store (and that more than 500K have been approved). The Android Marketplace has around 300K apps and is growing fast. The point is: There are a lot apps out the... |
| 01.06.2011 | Appsfire Closes €2.5M Funding Round with IDinvest | Appsfire, a Paris, France- and Tel Aviv, Israel-based company that is developing a personalized app store, closed a €2.5m round of funding with IDinvest.
The company is building an app discovery and recommendations platform that is designed... |
| 31.05.2011 | App discovery startup Appsfire gets $3.6 million investment | Mobile application discovery startup Appsfire closed a $3.6 million funding round from French investors Idinvest, according to a Gigaom report.
Helping consumers easily find new applications that interest them is increasingly important to d... |
| 30.05.2011 | With 2 Million Downloads Under Its Belt, Appsfire Raises $3.6 Million Series A | There are literally hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPad and Android apps to choose from, and yet finding good apps is far from easy. App discovery and recommendations is a fertile niche where a few startups are fighting for mindshare. Aft... |
| 11.05.2011 | Cooliris’ Decks Apps Makes App Discovery Fun | Application and content discovery on the iPad can be a daunting task, especially for new users. Users often get a feeling of “I know this is a cool piece of technology, but I don’t know what to do with it.” Sometimes it takes a tech geek fr... |
| 29.04.2011 | Zwapp's app makes iPhone app discovery more social | Sharing what mobile apps you have in a social network has been tried various ways. Appsfire hit on the idea of socialising apps.
Zwapp is coming at it from a slightly different angle. Its iPhone app (iTunes link) auto-discovers what apps yo... |
| 29.04.2011 | Zwapp Puts A Social Layer Over Your iPhone Apps | Sharing what mobile apps you have in a social network has been tried various ways. Appsfire hit on the idea of socialising apps.
Zwapp is coming at it from a slightly different angle. Its iPhone app (iTunes link) auto-discovers what apps yo... |
| 07.04.2011 | Quixey Raises $400K From Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors For App Search | It’s almost funny: between iOS, Android, and the Mac App Store, we’ve entered the age of the App, where standalone programs often specialize in doing a handful of things very well. There’s an app for looking up baseball schedules, an app fo... |
| 05.04.2011 | TechCrunch Europe and The Telegraph release the Startup100 | TechCrunch Europe occasionally partners with other media outlets in Europe in order to support the European ecosystem. Last December we agreed to link up with the London Telegraph newspaper, which planned to put some time and resources into... |
| 08.03.2011 | Explor, Touch-Based App Discovery To Get Around The App Wall | Back in 2007, we covered AdPinion, a Y Combinator startup that allowed you to vote on ads you wanted to see on the web. In 2008, we covered the launch of Appalanche, a web-based app recommendation engine. Then in 2009, we covered Appsaurus,... |
| 27.01.2011 | On iOS Devices, Native Apps Trump Web Apps (Infographic) | Appsfire, one of the leading mobile app discovery platforms, has analyzed 1,000 devices from its users to gain some insight with regards to the native app vs. Web app debate. It’s 2011, so the research was of course comes accompanied by an ... |
| 26.01.2011 | The Battle Against Info-Overload: Is Relevance or Popularity the Best Filter? | The rise of social media has led to an exponential proliferation of content online and widespread demand for tools to filter that information. Popularity and relevance are the most common metrics through which to filter that content – but a... |
| 28.12.2010 | Top Trends of 2010: App Stores | The Mobile Web has been a huge trend in 2010 and one output of that has been the emergence of app stores. It started of course with Apple’s App Store for the iPhone and then iPad. Then we saw other app stores come onto the scene: Android Ma... |
| 27.12.2010 | Android Market Gets Video Previews | AppsFire, makers of a mobile application search and discovery service, has uncovered a new feature for Android application developers: video previews. With this, developers can upload video demonstrations of their mobile application to the ... |
| 23.12.2010 | Top 10 Mobile Products of 2010 | Mobile technology has seen major advances over the course of 2010, with new platforms, new services and new usage trends all taking hold to spread the adoption of not just the mobile Web, but the Web itself. The number of smartphone owners ... |
| 20.12.2010 | Apple Removes WikiLeaks App From App Store | Looks like an unofficial iPhone and iPad app that let you view WikiLeaks site content and follow the WikiLeaks Twitter account on the go has been removed from the App app store earlier today. The app used to be available here (here’s the Go... |
| 30.11.2010 | Report: In-Game Purchases To Blow Mobile Games Revenues Past $11 Billion By 2015 | A new report from Juniper Research forecasts global mobile games revenues to surpass $11 billion by 2015, nearly double what they were in 2009.
All in all, it’s a fairly conservative prediction in my opinion, but what’s interesting is that ... |
| 17.11.2010 | 10 Distribution Channels for Mobile Applications | At the recent Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, Patrick Mork, CMO of the second largest mobile application store GetJar, detailed a number of ways developers can distribute their mobile applications. In a breakout session he led, entitle... |
| 25.10.2010 | Mobile App Recommendation Sites Drive Downloads for Developers | Mobile application recommendation websites and services have sprung out of a growing need to filter, rank and recommend the best apps from the hundreds of thousands now available for download onto mobile phones. These sites operate outside ... |
| 07.10.2010 | 33 ways to make your app a hit: VentureBeat’s Discovery Directory | As app stores multiply and the number of publicly released apps — just the ones we can see and count — approaches 1 million, content developers are having a hard time standing out from the crowd.
That process is known in the app world as di... |
| 23.09.2010 | iSites Raises $1 Million For Mobile App Development Platform | iSites, a service that allows web publishers to quickly build applications for the iPhone and Android platforms, has raised $1 million in funding led by Inventus Capital Partners with Quest Venture Partners, Dougery Ventures, Manish Chandra... |
| 06.09.2010 | New Apps for Your Mobile Phone: September Edition | There are now some 250,000 mobile applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, and over 70,000 for Android. How on earth do you find ones that are actually worth using? You could use a recommendation engine or website, an app that recommends a... |
| 26.08.2010 | Appsfire Friends Facebook, Generates 1.5 Million Clicks To The App Store Per Month | Mobile applications discovery and sharing service provider Appsfire is going social, henceforth enabling users to connect to Facebook in order to bring their Facebook friends in on the fun.
Basically, this allows Appsfire users to easily ad... |
| 23.08.2010 | Chomp Sinks Its Teeth Deeper Into Search; Wants To Be The Google Of Apps | It was last November that we first heard about Chomp, a sort-of Yelp for iPhone apps. At the time, it was still very much in stealth mode, but we kept hearing they raised a seed round of funding from investors like Ron Conway insanely fast.... |
| 19.07.2010 | Appstream released "just to get a reaction from Apple", proves a surprise hit | Appstream, a simple visualisation tool to help iPad owners discover new apps via a matrix-style wall (perhaps inspired by Apple’s own efforts at its World Wide Developer Conference), appears to be resonating with users.
It’s currently hover... |
| 09.07.2010 | New Apps for Your iPhone: July Edition | There are some 225,000 mobile applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, and counting. How on earth do you find ones that are actually worth using? You could use a recommendation service like AppsFire (itself a nifty little iPhone app too), ... |
| 30.06.2010 | Appsfire Introduces Live Rankings For iPhone Apps, Scores More Cash | Mobile applications discovery and sharing service provider Appsfire has just launched a new product called AppTrends, which essentially delivers near real-time rankings of iPhone apps based on the chatter on Twitter.
Rankings – currently li... |
| 10.06.2010 | Appsfire dumps iPhone App store after 2 month wait for update | Apple’s iPhone app store approval process is famed for its inconsistencies, but today the developer of a popular iPhone app has had enough.
Appsfire, an app for discovering popular iPhone apps, was approved in its version 1.0 form last Augu... |
| 06.05.2010 | Sharing iPhone & iPad Apps is About to Get Cooler | There are so many iPhone apps available (and perhaps so few iPad apps yet) that few geeky things can bring people together like sharing their favorites. My favorite way to do that is through Appsfire, a service that lets me select any numbe... |
| 04.05.2010 | Appsfire Launches New Website, iPhone App For Much Improved App Discovery | (This is a review of one of the 7 startups who are presenting today at Techonomy 2010 in Tel Aviv. To read about the others, browse all posts tagged ‘techonomy’.)
Appsfire, the startup behind the eponymous mobile app discovery and sharing p... |
| 12.04.2010 | AppsFire Hands Out iPhone / iPad App Star Awards (Videos of the Winners) | Freshly funded mobile app discovery startup AppsFire has handed out some App Star Awards to a number of developers of unlaunched iPhone / iPad applications this morning at the 360iDev conference in San Jose, California.
This was the second ... |
| 01.04.2010 | Exclusive Preview: AppStarAwards Finalists – Unreleased Apps for iPhone, iPad | The App Star Awards is a contest that highlights brilliant and innovative upcoming applications for the iPhone (and now the iPad, too). Created by AppsFire, the service for sharing iPhone applications, the event draws submissions from all o... |
| 19.03.2010 | Weekend Fun: New Apps for Your iPhone | As one of ReadWriteWeb’s iPhone users, I’m always looking for new applications to try out. Some get downloaded for a day and then deleted right away, others slowly inch their way closer to my homescreen. Even rarer are the ones that become ... |
| 03.02.2010 | AppsFire Draws In Some French Angels To Bankroll Mobile App Recommendations | With more than 140,000 apps on the iPhone alone, there is a real need for services which help you find the best apps. Apple’s iTunes ratings and genius recommendations only go so far. One startup attacking this problem is French-Israeli App... |
| 20.01.2010 | iSites Will Let Publishers Simultaneously Build Apps For iPhone And Android | It’s becoming increasingly common for the web’s many publishers to offer their own native smartphone applications in addition to mobile-optimized web versions. But few web publishers have the resources to actually develop an app for themsel... |
| 15.01.2010 | Pastefire: The Quickest Way To Get Stuff From The Web To Your iPhone | Do you find yourself constantly emailing stuff to your iPhone just so you can have it when you leave your desk? I do: emails, links, addresses, phone numbers, photos. Well, now there is an app for that. It’s called Pastefire, and it comes n... |
| 20.12.2009 | Another Reason Why I Wish All My Friends Had iPhones: Blipr | I’ll say it right off the bat: there are tons of ways people can communicate from iPhone to iPhone, not in the least by simple SMS or, you know, calling each other.
Then there are iPhone applications like Skype, eBuddy and Nimbuzz that allo... |
| 11.12.2009 | Draw Your Own iPhone Game With Pencil and Paper | Sketch Nation is a forthcoming iPhone app that takes iPhone photos of drawn images and uses them as avatars, obstacles and enemies in a customized fly-and-shoot mobile game. It’s pretty sweet and was the winner of the recent AppsFire AppSta... |
| 10.12.2009 | Top 10 Startup Products of 2009 | There were a ton of great products launched in 2009 by big companies and startups alike, but in this post we focus on the best products released by startups.
The easiest way to become a leading product in your industry is to meet a need bet... |
| 09.12.2009 | Le Web 2009: Appsfire Announces iPhone App Star Award Winners | Here at Le Web in Paris, Appsfire just announced the winners of the App Star Awards, which were handed out by the startup to developers of iPhone applications who came up with some innovative tools for the platform.
Caveat: since these are ... |
| 01.12.2009 | Where do Short URLs Go When They Die? | In late October, after Bit.ly had firmly established itself as Twitter’s service of choice, it looked like URL shortener service Cligs would close down. As of today, the company will see a new management team as social bookmarking service M... |
| 11.11.2009 | 7 Apps We’re Falling in Love With | We test a lot of software around here, on the web, on our desktop and on our phones. It’s a great job to have, but only so much of what we test really sticks and becomes a part of our daily routines. Every once in awhile we like to compare ... |
| 04.11.2009 | Waveboard Puts Google Wave iPhone Application Up For Sale | We already knew Waveboard was bringing Google Wave to both the desktop and the iPhone with two dedicated clients, but you’ll be interested to know the iPhone app is now live on the App Store and available for less than a buck (iTunes link).... |
| 11.10.2009 | Review: Best New iPod and iPhone AppStore Games | With the recent iPod Touch update Apple has positioned and marketed the device as a new type of mobile gaming platform. Games have always been some of the best selling applications in the AppStore for both the iPod Touch and the iPhone. A r... |
| 05.10.2009 | Adobe Shows Off Flash Apps For iPhone. Yes, You Read That Right. | Never say never: Adobe Labs is today showing off a couple of Flash applications for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform at its annual Adobe MAX event.
A couple of demo applications made by third-party developers are already available on the Appl... |
| 22.09.2009 | The Top Ten Twitter Apps On The iPhone Among Early Adopters | What are the top Twitter apps on the iPhone? It’s hard to say because the iTunes store doesn’t have a Twitter category (Twitter apps are lumped in under “Social Networking). But AppsFire, the iPhone app sharing service, might have an answer... |
| 01.09.2009 | Appolicious is Like Delicious for iPhone Apps | Looking for new iPhone apps? With a marketplace filled with over 65,000 applications (give or take), finding the best ones via iTunes has become an exercise in futility. With the next big Apple announcement a little over a week away, we sti... |
| 19.08.2009 | Appsfire: The Must-Have App Sharing App (iPhone) | I tell people about the Rachel Maddow iPhone app all the time; almost no one has heard of it, but it’s great. From now on I won’t just tell them about it – I’ll share a link to it by email with just a few clicks in the new iPhone app from A... |
| 12.08.2009 | Share Your Favorite iPhone Apps by Email; There’s An App (Submitted) for That | Just 46% of iPhone users discover new apps via recommendations from friends, but that number could take a big jump if a new app just submitted to Apple gets approved for placement in the iTunes App Store.
Israeli and French project AppsFire... |
| 26.07.2009 | Appsto.re – Because iPhone Apps Apparently Needed A Custom URL Shortener | Not sure which question is more appropriate here: why or why not? We’ve already witnessed the renewed interest in URL shortening services with the rise of communication platforms where brevity appears to be the norm rather than a side effec... |
| 30.06.2009 | Recommend Your Favorite iPhone Apps With AppsFire | A couple weeks ago, we wrote a post detailing why there needs to be some sort of iPhone app recommendation system. Just like iTunes has its “Genius” feature for music and movies, with over 50,000 apps now in the App Store, there needs to be... |
