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| Aug 17, 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... |
| Jul 5, 2012 | AppHero lands $1.8M in seed funding for app discovery | Your Facebook data can now be used to bring the best app recommendations right to you
AppHero announced Thursday that it has secured just under $1.8 million in seed financing to create a social recommendation platform for mobile apps. OMERS... |
| Jun 23, 2012 | Apple Chomps At App Store Search? Developers See Shift In Search Results | Apple is making potentially significant changes to the search algorithm in the App Store, at least according to some app developers. If you’re a developer or publisher counting on a well-chosen name to help with visibility, things could get... |
| Jun 7, 2012 | Fast-Growing App Search Engine Quixey Raises $20 Million Series B | App search company Quixey is today announcing it has closed a $20 million round Series B funding. The round includes previous investors WI Harper Group, U.S. Venture Partners and Innovation Endeavors as well as new investors Atlantic Bridge... |
| May 25, 2012 | Apple’s iOS and Mac App Stores Now Feature “Free App Of The Week” And “Editor’s Choice” Promotions | In an apparent effort to help its users find more interesting apps in its cavernous digital stores, Apple today made an interesting tweak to its iOS and Mac app stores. Both now feature a “free app of the week” and an “editor’s choice” sect... |
| May 6, 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... |
| Apr 27, 2012 | Chomp app-discovery app for Android has seen its last days thanks to Apple | reader comments 34 with 32 posters participating
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The Android version of app discovery app (yes, that's a thing) Chomp is no longer, leaving only the iOS versions until Appl... |
| Mar 7, 2012 | Let the Madness Begin: Four New Questions About Mobile’s Future | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Francisco is a heavenly place to live and work, but there are two times a year when I would rather be in Boston. One is Xconomy’s annual XSITE conference in June, and the ... |
| Mar 5, 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,... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Apple Acquires Chomp; App Store Search And Discovery To Be Completely Revamped | With the countdown underway to 25 billion total app downloads, there’s no disputing the success of Apple’s App Store. We live in a world of hyperbole, but Apple’s entry into this space really has changed the entire mobile world. But the App... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Apple acquires app discovery tool Chomp | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apple reportedly acquired Chomp today, a mobile-application search tool. Because searching through the App Store for something new is a... |
| Jan 29, 2012 | Games Decreasing In Popularity On Android, Entertainment Apps On The Rise | The mobile app ecosystem is growing so quickly – exponentially, even – that sometimes it’s hard to see the larger trends occurring in the space. To really gain insight, it helps to look back over a longer period of time, like a year for exa... |
| Jan 13, 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... |
| Dec 30, 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 ... |
| Nov 4, 2011 | Mobile App Search is So Bad AltaVista Could Have Done It. Chomp Is Biting Off the Problem | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There are roughly 500,000 iPhone and iPad apps in Apple’s iTunes App Store, and almost that many smartphone and tablet apps in Google’s Android Market. That gives mobile consu... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Oh, Hey Google: Chomp Launches Its Own AdWords For App Search; Brings Realtime Search To iPhone | Two weeks ago, we covered Chomp‘s news that it will be powering app search on Verizon’s app store for all Android phones. Today, the app search early player is announcing some more big news, and this time advertisers and developers are the ... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Chomp gets a stunning iPhone redesign to help you find more apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With its latest iPhone app, the mobile app search company Chomp has delivered a stylish new redesign that not only looks good, but will... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Chomp: Taking a bite out of Google's AdWords? | Chomp Search Ads is the AdWords for apps
Move over Google -- at least in app advertising. App search engine Chomp launched Tuesday a private beta advertising program that allows developers to bid on keywords or phrases and will deliver the ... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Chomp gets a stunning iPhone redesign to help you find more apps | With its latest iPhone app, the mobile app search company Chomp has delivered a stylish new redesign that not only looks good, but will also help you easily find new and interesting apps.
The free Chomp app, available today on the iTunes St... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | Turning the Social Network Inside Out: What the Changes at Facebook Mean For Apple and Google-and You | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
One of the most persistent criticisms of Facebook is that it’s trying to build a “walled garden” analogous to AOL’s dialup service in the 1980s and early 1990s. Blogger Jason ... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | Demo: Orange’s Open Mobile App Directory wants to be the Wikipedia of apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Open Mobile App Directory (OMAD), a new site by Orange Silicon Valley, aims to be the one app directory to rule them all.
The site ... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | Demo: Orange’s Open Mobile App Directory wants to be the Wikipedia of apps | The Open Mobile App Directory (OMAD), a new site by Orange Silicon Valley, aims to be the one app directory to rule them all.
The site boasts a cross-platform directory of mobile applications — including iOS, Android and BlackBerry apps — t... |
| Sep 13, 2011 | Verizon relaunches Android app store with Chomp’s help | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
So long, VCast. Verizon Wireless is relaunching its Android app store as simply “Verizon Apps,” and it’s tapping into Chomp’s powerful ... |
| Sep 13, 2011 | Verizon relaunches Android app store with Chomp’s help | So long, VCast. Verizon Wireless is relaunching its Android app store as simply “Verizon Apps,” and it’s tapping into Chomp’s powerful app search engine to help power it.
With the change, Verizon is hoping its app store will be more useful ... |
| Sep 13, 2011 | Chomp To Begin Powering App Search For Android Phones Via Verizon Apps | There are quite a few nifty app search engines out there, but Chomp is trying to be the Google of search engines, not the AltaVista. Mobile apps are everywhere you look, but when it comes to finding the right app on the Android Market, the ... |
| Aug 28, 2011 | Quixey Raises $3.8 Million For A Functional Search Engine For Apps | Quixey, the Palo Alto-based startup that’s building a functional search engine for apps, today announced that it has closed a $3.8 million series A funding round. The investment was led by U.S. Venture Partners and WI Harper Group, with par... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | AppGrooves: App Recommendation Engine Combines Social With “Hot Or Not” Feature | The more mobile apps come out, the bigger the discovery problem gets for users: Apple, for example, recently announced they have 425,000 apps in the App Store. Rankings, recommendations from platform providers or search often bring unsatisf... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Paid App Downloads on Android Up 2% Since April, Says Chomp | Mobile application search and discovery service Chomp just released its latest app search trends report, and tucked away in the data is promising tidbit for Android app developers to note. There has been a slight, 2% increase month-over-mon... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Some Apps Do Sell: Developer Makes $750K in 3 Weeks on Android Market | In May, a pair of reports painted a troublesome portrait of the app economy on Google’s Android Market. First, mobile analytics firm Distimofound that the vast majority of paid applications were downloaded less than 100 times, and a few day... |
| Jun 15, 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... |
| May 24, 2011 | In the battle of mobile apps, it's Apple's 500,000 to Microsoft's 18,000 | Today, Andy Lees, president of Microsoft's Windows Phone division, boasted about 18,000 applications in 7 months. He can only wish for this kind of future: 500,000 applications approved to Apple's iOS app store in about three years. This is... |
| May 20, 2011 | Chomp Brings Cross-Platform App Search To Android With Verizon's V Cast Integration | Chomp, an app search engine, has partnered with Verizon Wireless to offer an app search engine for the communications company’s mobile app marketplace, V Cast.
Chomp, which just launched an Android app that allows users to search across Goo... |
| Apr 22, 2011 | App search engine Quixey lets developers manage apps across app stores | Quixey, a new startup that’s developing a search engine dedicated to apps, announced today that it will also make life easier for developers by giving them an easy way to manage their apps across multiple stores.
Such a feature would be a b... |
| Apr 7, 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... |
| Mar 18, 2011 | Top 10 start-ups to emerge from SXSW | If you’re keen to find out the next start-up to emerge from nowhere to threaten global domination, the South by Southwest festival is a good place to start.
The interactive festival at the Austin, Texas showpiece has acted as the public deb... |
| Mar 8, 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,... |
| Mar 5, 2011 | The App Wall | A couple nights ago, a friend sent me a message. “So glad we finally have a way to talk without hanging out.”
He was, of course, kidding. He sent me the message through Yobongo, a new location-based realtime chatting app that launched this ... |
| Mar 2, 2011 | Chomp for Android is a Promising, but Imperfect, Android Market Alternative | Chomp for Android is a new release from Chomp, a company’s whose search engine for iPhone apps launched last year. Available as both an online search engine and downloadable application, Chomp offers an attractive user interface for finding... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Chomp May Have Just Solved The Nightmare That Is Android App Search | Regardless of what you think about the Android platform, there’s no denying that the Market experience for finding apps is pretty poor. And that’s putting it nicely. Google has evolved the experience over the years, and the web-based Market... |
| Feb 19, 2011 | For Mobile Apps, It's 1996 All Over Again | This guest post is by Ben Keighran, CEO & Co-Founder of Chomp, a search engine for mobile apps.
1996 was a great year in the life of the web. Netscape had launched two years earlier, Excite@home was going to wire all of our homes with u... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | Bump Now Lets You Swap App Recommendations With A Tap | You can tell a lot about a person from their mobile app library. Are they avid Doodle Jumpers, or do they prefer to challenge their wits with a few rounds of Civilization? Do they stretch their vocal chords to the beats of T-Pain or Glee’s ... |
| Jan 21, 2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| Dec 28, 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... |
| Dec 23, 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 ... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | The Top Mobile Apps of 2010, According to Apple, GetJar and Others | Today, Apple has released its annual “iTunes Rewind” feature, a listing of the most popular content in music, movies, TV shows and mobile applications in its iTunes marketplace. This year, Apple has placed a large focus on mobile apps, prov... |
| Nov 30, 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 ... |
| Nov 17, 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... |
| Oct 25, 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 ... |
| Oct 7, 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... |
| Sep 30, 2010 | DiscoveryBeat 2010 speakers: More top thinkers to delve into art of discovery | We’re pleased to announce some more big thinkers slated to speak at DiscoveryBeat 2010, the conference addressing the evolving problem of discovery in an era full of app stores and content. Our newest speakers represent vital parts of the e... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | Chomp’s iPhone app brings mobile search into modern age | Finally, it looks like searching for apps on your smartphone will go from a terrible experience to a pretty good one.
Chomp, a website that recommends mobile applications, has just launched an app for the iPhone that offers a nifty sort of ... |
| Aug 23, 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.... |
| Jun 4, 2010 | Mobile Web or Native App? Chomp’s App Search Shows Both | The debate between native mobile apps and HTML5 mobile web apps is probably not very important in the minds of most consumers – but it’s big for developers. Starting today the venture funded iPhone app recommendation app Chomp now includes ... |
| Mar 11, 2010 | Chomp raises $2M for iPhone app recommendations; launches new site at Chomp.com | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Mar 11, 2010 | Chomp raises $2M for iPhone app recommendations; launches new site at Chomp.com | iPhone application recommendation site Chomp has raised another $2 million in funding, after showing strong growth since its launch eight weeks ago. Thus far the site has gathered 300,000 users, who have left 1.5 million reviews.
The compan... |
| Mar 9, 2010 | Chomp Closes In On 300,000 Users, Launches App Review Site And Chomp Connect | When Chomp launched eight weeks ago in the iTunes store, it launched as an app for reviewing other iPhone apps. The app shows you a stream of realtime reviews, which you can filter by everyone or just your Facebook freinds. The app is showi... |