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| Oct 27, 2017 | Skype for Android hits 1 billion downloads on Google Play | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Skype has joined Google Play’s exclusive 1 billion download club, becoming one of only a handful of Android apps to reach the magic mil... |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Skype for Android hits 1 billion downloads on Google Play | Skype has joined Google Play’s exclusive 1 billion download club, becoming one of only a handful of Android apps to reach the magic milestone.
It’s worth noting here that this figure doesn’t equate to 1 billion users on Android, given that ... |
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| Nov 7, 2015 | Top deals seen in Central and Eastern Europe in October | Here is a list of some interesting deals from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), seen in October. Often overlooked by big US and Western European investors, the region offers many good deals, at much cheaper valuations compared to the US mar... |
| Jul 7, 2014 | Toyze makes custom 3D-printed figures from mobile games—like Cut The Rope’s Om Nom (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Toyze is announcing today that it will let mobile gamers use 3D printing to create custom figurines based on their favorite mobile game... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | App store pioneer GetJar acquired by China’s Sungy Mobile for just $5.3M (and bonuses) | China’s Sungy Mobile today announced that it has acquired Getjar, one of the first third-party app stores to market, for $5.3 million in cash.
Getjar, which is based in San Francisco, launched its app store back in 2004 and later pivoted in... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | App store pioneer GetJar acquired by China’s Sungy Mobile for just $5.3M (and bonuses) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
China’s Sungy Mobile today announced that it has acquired Getjar, one of the first third-party app stores to market, for $5.3 million i... |
| Nov 6, 2012 | The Market Adjustment That Killed Verizon’s App Store | Verizon announced on Monday that it is discontinuing its Verizon Apps program on Android and BlackBerry smartphones. By March 2013, Verizon will shut down its app store on Android devices and uninstall any apps already on users devices. Thi... |
| Nov 1, 2012 | GetJar Shifts Focus From Distribution To Discovery And Commerce, As Its Virtual Currency Hits 50M Users, 60% Of Revs | You may know GetJar as the largest independent, cross-platform app store, and one of the largest distributors of Android apps outside of the Android Market. With more than 2 billion downloads and some 150K+ applications, the company continu... |
| Sep 26, 2012 | Everything You Need To Know About The Startup Ecosystem In Russia And Eastern Europe | As Dave McClure and Geeks on the Plane are touring Moscow, Tallinn and Zagreb this week, I have finally written this post summarizing the result of a year-long research project exploring the Russian and Eastern European startup ecosystem. T... |
| May 24, 2012 | Could Virtual Nanotransactions Solve the Mobile Payments Problem? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Very few people in the mobile industry will disagree that mobile payments are today’s biggest challenge for developers. In the Apple universe, there is a strong solution to th... |
| May 4, 2012 | 10 Apps for the Chef and Foodie | Do you ever wonder why food at restaurants is so much better than what you make at home? Honest chefs will tell you that, outside of skill and knowledge, they just have better tools at their disposal. In lieu of spending a fortune on buying... |
| May 2, 2012 | Vungle gets $2M in seed round for in-app video ads | SV Angel, 500 Startups, SoftTech VC, Maynard Webb, Scott McNealy, Tim Draper invest
There's two markets experiencing rapid growth: mobile apps and mobile advertising.
And, Vungle is vying to become a big part of those opportunities.
Vu... |
| Apr 5, 2012 | More second screen: Shazam partners with American Idol | Shazam's live tagging allows American Idol viewers to save song, unlock exclusive content
For all of those that watch the singing competitions and end up with a long list of songs that they need to remember to download later, Shazam is... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | Busyflow brings your cloud apps onto one screen, releases its private beta today | How many tabs does one have opened in a web browser at any one time? Managing documents, emails, calendar, notes, sales leads, tasks and contacts located in different clouds can be inconvenient, and the number of apps only goes up as new on... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Dolphin Browser on Android updated with bookmark sync and Webzine enhancements | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobotap’s Dolphin Browser has updated its powerful Android app to version 7.0 with new features that let users sync settings and bookma... |
| Sep 29, 2011 | GetJar Gold Gives Away $1 Million In Free Apps | Earlier this month, third-party mobile app store GetJar announced the public launch of its GetJar Gold Program (previously in beta), a catalog of premium Android applications made available for free. Today, the company is providing an updat... |
| 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 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 8, 2011 | Watch Out Amazon: GetJar Launches A Full Catalog Of Premium Android Apps For Free | Today, third-party mobile application store GetJar is publicly launching its GetJar Gold service, which has been in beta testing for the past month. The new service presents a viable challenge to Amazon’s Appstore and its time-limited “free... |
| Aug 6, 2011 | Google gets new marketing director of mobile apps: GetJar’s Patrick Mork | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Patrick “Mad” Mork (pictured left), chief marketing officer of app store GetJar, announced yesterday that he is leaving the company to ... |
| Jul 29, 2011 | GetJar's agnostic smartphone app store hits 2 billon downloads | Online store GetJar has consolidated its position as the biggest marketplace for free apps by reaching its two billionth download. The company, which makes its money through advertising, was one of the earliest players in the app market. Ad... |
| Jul 14, 2011 | App.Net: Custom Landing Pages for Your App | We just came across a new service which app developers are going to love: App.net, a site that lets you make customizable landing pages for your mobile application. Using simple templates, your landing page can feature a description, a mock... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | MobileApps.com Wants To Be The Adsense For Mobile Apps | Many mobile app developers share a significant problem: getting their products discovered among the hundreds of thousands of apps i.e. the App Store or the Android Market currently boast. According to a recent report by Nielsen, just 58% of... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | GetJar growls at Apple "app store" trademark claim | Though one of the biggest app stores in the world, GetJar told by Apple to stop using trademark
The “App Store” trademark skirmish just got a lot more interesting.
A law firm representing Apple has issued a cease-and-desist letter to GetJar... |
| May 10, 2011 | GetJar buys Infrinity to improve app discovery | GetJar, the largest independent mobile app store, has acquired Infrinity, a startup that developed a sophisticated recommendation engine to improve the discovery and recommendation of apps.
Discovery is a huge problem still. GetJar has 75,0... |
| May 10, 2011 | GetJar buys Infrinity to improve app discovery | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
GetJar, the largest independent mobile app store, has acquired Infrinity, a startup that developed a sophisticated recommendation engin... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | Mobile Dev News Round-Up: AR on Android, API for Instant App Making & More | It’s been a big week for mobile app developers, thanks, for the most part, to the AppNation conference held in San Francisco. From Qualcomm’s AR platform to Opera’s new developer program, many of these mobile announcements made headlines ac... |
| Apr 15, 2011 | Poll: Should Developers Stay Away from Amazon’s Appstore? | This week, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) issued a warning to its members, suggesting they “educate themselves on the pros and cons of submitting content to Amazon.” The letter refers to the recently launched Amazon Ap... |
| Apr 5, 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... |
| Apr 4, 2011 | A Cooperative For Developers Looks To Put App Makers Back In The Driver's Seat | There are a number of systemic obstacles facing app developers today, with limitations in distribution and monetization channels being chief among them. Oh, and then there’s fragmentation, as developers have to create different versions of ... |
| Mar 31, 2011 | Opera Mini Returns To GetJar's Mobile App Marketplace | A few weeks ago, after the debut of the Opera App Store, app marketplace GetJar banned Opera’s mobile browsing app Opera Mini from its own mobile app marketplace. The reasoning: Opera’s App Store was available in the app and competes direct... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | CTIA: The Secret Sauce for Application Storefronts | At this week’s CTIA 2011 Wireless conference in Orlando, Florida, several industry execs sat down to discuss the ever-growing application ecosystem, and the challenges developers face, in a panel session entitled “The Secret Sauce for Appli... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | GetJar Says Android Will "Trump iPhone 2 To 1", But Consider The Source | According to data from a survey held by independent app store provider GetJar, demand for Android handsets has grown significantly, to the point where twice as many people will consider their next phone to run Google’s OS than Apple’s iOS.
... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | The Android Kill Switch: Mea Culpa | Over the weekend I wrote a piece which argued that walled gardens were conquering the Internet, and Google’s ability to to remotely delete apps from Android devices effectively turned Android into a “subtler but no less forbidding” walled g... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | App Stores At War As GetJar Bans Opera Mini: "We All Have To Make A Living" | Begun, the alternative app stores war has.
According to a tweet from GetJar Networks, which provides an alternative, platform-agnostic mobile applications marketplace, the Opera’s Mini browser has been kicked off the alternative app store o... |
| Mar 7, 2011 | GetJar Touts Its “No Fee” Philosophy, Says Developers Keep More Money | Third-party mobile application store GetJar is touting its “no fee” philosophy, in an effort to position itself as an alternative to the official app stores from Apple, Google and others. Recently, the company highlighted an example of its ... |
| Feb 15, 2011 | GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs Explains Why They Just Raised $25 Million (TCTV) | GetJar, the independent, cross-platform app store provider, this morning announced that it has raised $25 million in Series C funding from Tiger Global Management and longtime backer Accel Partners. The round brings the total raised to $42 ... |
| Feb 15, 2011 | GetJar Raises $25M in Series C Funding | GetJar , a San Mateo, CA-based open app store, has raised $25m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Accel Partners.
The company intends to use the new funds to expand sales, marketing an... |
| Feb 15, 2011 | GetJar gets $25 million for open app store | The largest open app store and second largest app store period raises Series C from Tiger Global
GetJar, the largest open app store, announced Tuesday that it has raised $25 million in Series C funding from Tiger Global Management with part... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | GetJar raises another $25M for its mobile app store | Independent mobile-app seller GetJar just announced that it has raised $25 million in a third round of funding for what it calls the largest “open” app store in the world.
The news comes just a few days after chief executive and founder Ilj... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Mobile app revenue will hit $15B in 2011 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s good to be Apple. This is true in many ways, but especially in the mobile applications business. According to research firm Gartne... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Mobile app revenue will hit $15B in 2011 | It’s good to be Apple. This is true in many ways, but especially in the mobile applications business. According to research firm Gartner, nine out of ten downloaded mobile applications in 2010 came from Apple’s App Store.
Last year was a bo... |
| Jan 18, 2011 | Get Ready To Tap That App With T-Pain's New App, Booty Symphony | I don’t usually use PR lines in headlines, but “Get ready to tap that app,” only seemed fitting. What we got here is a new Android app from T-Pain’s label, Nappy Boy Entertainment, called Booty Symphony. What is it? Why would anyone want it... |
| Jan 5, 2011 | GetJar 2011 Mobile Predictions: Consolidation, Democratization And More Revenue For App Developers | GetJar, the largest independent mobile app store, has just released its forecast for mobile trends in 2011. The app store, which has seen over 1 billion downloads to date, is also seeing more than three million downloads per day (which make... |
| 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 | GetJar Well-Positioned to be the “HTML5 Mobile Web App Store” | This week, GetJar teamed up with Zynga to announce the debut of new mobile games: Mafia Wars and Zynga Poker. Mafia Wars, already a familiar name to Facebook users, is a GetJar exclusive, meaning it’s being launched first on the GetJar.com ... |
| 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 20, 2010 | Zynga Debuts First Mobile Web Browser Game Mafia Wars Atlantic City | It’s no secret that Zynga is making a big bet on mobile, recently acquiring mobile app developer Newtoy, and launching native Farmville apps for the iPad and iPhone. In fact, as of earlier this month, Farmville for the iPhone had seen 7 mil... |
| 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 22, 2010 | What you need to know - Monday 8/26/10 | Facebook shares trade at $71;Smartdate raised $5M; Novell bought for $2.2B
Attachmate Corporation is buying Novell for $2.2 billion, or $6.10 a share. Attachmate is owned by a group of investors which include Francisco Partners, Golden Gate... |
| Nov 22, 2010 | Facebook Apps Downloaded Over 100 Million Times From GetJar's App Store | Seven months after reaching the 50 million download mark, Facebook’s mobile applications have been downloaded by more than 100 million people on GetJar, the vendor and carrier neutral, platform-agnostic app store, the latter company says.
T... |
| 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 20, 2010 | Electronic Arts picks up Angry Birds publisher Chillingo | Mobile gamers have become obsessed with small, pudgy and vehemently Angry Birds — mostly playing a game that sends them flying into walls and watching the sparks fly. So much so that Electronic Arts has decided to acquire the game’s publish... |
| Oct 15, 2010 | Demand for Angry Birds game inundates GetJar’s app store | Demand for mobile game Angry Birds almost sunk GetJar, the app store where the Google Android version of the game first appeared today. GetJar said that the demand for the game, which has sold more than 7 million units on the iPhone in the ... |
| 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... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | GetJar to give mobile games away to millions of users for free | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile app store operator GetJar plans to shake up the mobile game industry by giving away millions of copies of mobile games for free.... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | GetJar to give mobile games away to millions of users for free | Mobile app store operator GetJar plans to shake up the mobile game industry by giving away millions of copies of mobile games for free.
That’s going to make it tough on companies that are trying to sell high-quality mobile games, but it wil... |
| Sep 29, 2010 | What Developers Should Know About Amazon’s Android App Store | Reportedly, Internet retailer Amazon.com is at work building its own standalone mobile application store for Google Android devices that would possibly appear on Amazon’s own Android-based tablet computers.
Amazon has yet to comment on thes... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | Virgin Mobile India gets a shiny new app store courtesy of GetJar | GetJar, the largest independent mobile app store, continues to bed down in India. Today the company, which originates from Lithuania, has announced a partnership with Virgin Mobile India to operate a white label app store for the youth-orie... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | Cross-Platform Mobile App Store GetJar Partners with Virgin Mobile India | In June we told you that GetJar, an independent multi-platform mobile app store, had raised $11 million from Accel Partners in the company’s second round of funding. GetJar has wisely marketed its services internationally in the past and to... |
| Aug 5, 2010 | Apple Opens “Try Before You Buy” Section in the App Store | Apple added a new section for free apps to the App Store today titled “Try Before You Buy,” reminiscent of the excuse made by those who pirate apps.
App developers figured out a lot time ago that offering free or “lite” versions of apps cou... |
| Jul 29, 2010 | Independent mobile app store GetJar now seeing 3 million downloads per day | According to GetJar, its eponymous mobile app store is now seeing three million downloads per day. GetJar reiterated that its stats put it second only to Apple iTunes, with over 1 billion total downloads to date.
At current (self-reported) ... |
| Jul 13, 2010 | GetJar names Gettie Award 2010 mobile application winners | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
GetJar, an online mobile application store, last night announced the winners of The Gettie Awards, an annual mobile app competition, at... |
| Jul 13, 2010 | GetJar names Gettie Award 2010 mobile application winners | GetJar, an online mobile application store, last night announced the winners of The Gettie Awards, an annual mobile app competition, at VentureBeat’s annual MobileBeat conference in San Francisco.
Second to the Apple App Store, GetJar is th... |
| Jun 25, 2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 06/25/10 | Social gaming, social gaming: last week was Zynga, this week Playdom, HeyZap, and SGN, who's next?
It's like that creepy scene from Being John Malkovich where everyone in the room looks like the actor and every word that comes out... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | GetJar raises $11M to expand its app store to a global scale | GetJar is raising $11 million in a second round of funding from Accel Partners as it continues to expand its mobile app store.
The company doesn’t have a lot of brand recognition. But it operates the second-largest mobile app store, behind ... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | GetJar raises $11M to expand its app store to a global scale | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
GetJar is raising $11 million in a second round of funding from Accel Partners as it continues to expand its mobile app store.
The comp... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | GetJar Closes $11M in Series B Funding | GetJar, a San Mateo, CA-based operator of an app store, has closed $11m in Series B funding from Accel Partners.
The company provides more than 65,000 mobile applications across all major platforms such as Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobil... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | App store company GetJar raises $11 million Series B from Accel Partners | Application store company GetJar this morning announced it has secured $11 million in a Series B funding round led by previous backer Accel Partners, report PaidContent and others.
The company says it plans to use the funding to bolster its... |
| Jun 23, 2010 | Second-Largest App Store Gets Plenty Large Investment | GetJar, the world’s second-largest applications store, just announced a series B funding of $11 million from Accel Partners.
Second in volume only to Apple’s app store, GetJar has seen over a billion downloads of 65,000 applications. Its fo... |
| Jun 8, 2010 | Mobile app frenzy – A second mobile store hits a billion downloads | Mobile App stores have been dominated by Apple and Android with Nokia’s Ovi a distant third, but there is an independent store out there which cuts across all except Apple. GetJar, which claims to be the the world’s second largest mobile ap... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | After Facebook, eBuddy Second Mobile App To Reach 50 Million Downloads On GetJar | App Store GetJar announced today that web and mobile messaging service provider eBuddy has surpassed the 50 million downloads mark for its eBuddy Mobile Messenger app. At the time of writing, the product page shows 50,655,934 downloads to d... |
| May 19, 2010 | Want to make money off a mobile app? Build a free Java version | Smartphones get all the buzz, but mobile app warehouse GetJar claims that 90 percent of phones in use worldwide, and 72 percent of American phones, are still the non-smartphones that the mobile industry confusingly calls “feature phones.”
T... |
| May 19, 2010 | Want to make money off a mobile app? Build a free Java version | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Smartphones get all the buzz, but mobile app warehouse GetJar claims that 90 percent of phones in use worldwide, and 72 percent of Amer... |
| May 18, 2010 | Mobile developers: Compete for the Getties Awards at MobileBeat 2010 | We’ll be celebrating the best mobile developers at our MobileBeat 2010 conference on July 12-13.
Our friends at GetJar, the world’s second largest app store, have just announced “The Gettie Awards 2010,” a competition for talented mobile ap... |
| May 12, 2010 | MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition — Vote for your startup! | Today, we’re announcing the startup competition for our MobileBeat 2010 conference.
We’re looking for the top 20 companies with the coolest mobile ideas, now that we’re poised for exciting new developments in the mobile world.
The top 20 co... |
| Apr 27, 2010 | GetJar signs deal with RCOM to create India’s largest free mobile app store | [Lithuania] GetJar, the largest independent mobile app store, has announced a ‘strategic partnership’ with Reliance Communications (RCOM), India’s second largest mobile operator.
Under the arrangement, the two companies will create India’s ... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | Roundup: WSJ teams with Foursquare, Google adds local biz listings to Street View | Here’s the latest action:
Samsung book rattles South Korea — Kim Yong-chul’s new book “Think Samsung” has polarized the country, with some championing him as a corporate whistle-blower as others calling him disloyal for exposing the corrupt... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | GetJar Revs Up Analytics, With Or Without Apple | App store GetJar has released a new conversion tool to help developers of all open platform stripes track user engagement. It’s a simple, automated process that tells developers whether a user who downloaded an app has actually opened and e... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | Study: Mobile apps industry to hit $17.5B by 2012 with 50B in downloads | An independent study has found that the market for mobile applications will increase from $6 billion today to $17.5 billion in 2012. The study was commissioned by GetJar, the world’s second biggest mobile app store.
The study also reported ... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | Study: Mobile apps industry to hit $17.5B by 2012 with 50B in downloads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
An independent study has found that the market for mobile applications will increase from $6 billion today to $17.5 billion in 2012. Th... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | GetJar CEO explains the new app economy (video) | International app store GetJar has been around for years, but is only now gaining attention in the United States through a deal with Sprint.
This morning GetJar released a study the company had commissioned from Chetan Sharma Consulting — p... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | GetJar CEO explains the new app economy (video) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
International app store GetJar has been around for years, but is only now gaining attention in the United States through a deal with Sp... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | GetJar: Mobile App Sales Will Overtake CD Sales By 2012 (Video + Slides) | An independent study released this morning by neutral app store GetJar indicates that the market for mobile apps should grow to a whopping $17.5 billion within the next three years.
This would basically mean that the value of apps sold woul... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Sprint’s brilliant $0.00 deal with Lithuanian app store GetJar | The spectacular non-success of Nokia’s Ovi app store has proven that you can’t predict success, even with Nokia’s best and brightest on the job.
That’s why Sprint, America’s third-place wireless carrier, chose not to even try to build their... |
| Jan 15, 2010 | How eBuddy's Mobile Monetization Strategy Helped It Turn A Profit | For the past four months, Amsterdam-based eBuddy has turned a profit, CEO Jan-Joost Rueb tells me, by offering advertising-supported services for free in combination with sales of a premium iPhone application.
The company, backed by 11.5 mi... |
| Dec 23, 2009 | The future of mobile: Q&A with GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs | Ilja Laurs is the founder and CEO of GetJar, the multi-platform app retailer with strong claims to being second only to Apple in number of downloads. Laurs runs GetJar from offices in the UK, Silicon Valley, and his native Lithuania. I spok... |
| Dec 23, 2009 | The future of mobile: Q&A with GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ilja Laurs is the founder and CEO of GetJar, the multi-platform app retailer with strong claims to being second only to Apple in number... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | Thanks for coming to DiscoveryBeat; the best is yet to come | 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!
Entrepreneurs, developers, and others gathered in... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | Thanks for coming to DiscoveryBeat; the best is yet to come | Entrepreneurs, developers, and others gathered in San Francisco yesterday for DiscoveryBeat 2009, VentureBeat’s sold-out event on how applications can stand out in “an age of noise.”
It’s considered easier to get struck by lightning these d... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | New DiscoveryBeat speakers: Zynga, Flurry, YouWeb, GetJar and more | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’re excited to announce new speakers and program content for DiscoveryBeat, VentureBeat’s event exploring how to get apps noticed in ... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | New DiscoveryBeat speakers: Zynga, Flurry, YouWeb, GetJar and more | We’re excited to announce new speakers and program content for DiscoveryBeat, VentureBeat’s event exploring how to get apps noticed in an age of noise. The event takes place Dec. 8 at the Automattic Lounge on Pier 38 in San Francisco. We’ve... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | New speakers, sponsors for DiscoveryBeat; today is last day for early-bird discount | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’ve got some great momentum for VentureBeat’s upcoming DiscoveryBeat event, which will attack the problem of how to get attention for... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | New speakers, sponsors for DiscoveryBeat; today is last day for early-bird discount | We’ve got some great momentum for VentureBeat’s upcoming DiscoveryBeat event, which will attack the problem of how to get attention for an app in the midst of a lot of noise.
One of our newest speakers is Randy Breen, chief operating office... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | GetJar launches easy-branding mobile app installer | For a brand manager, fussing over the features of a bunch of mobile apps is a distraction from the much larger mission of getting consumers to install the brand on their phones.
Building a custom app to stand out in Apple’s 85,000-app store... |
| Sep 24, 2009 | Apple locked us in, but how long will the jail sentence last? | This is a guest post by Paul Fisher a Venture Capital investor with Advent Ventures in Europe Portfolio companies include Zong.com, Qype, Adeptra and DailyMotion. Paul blogs at The Coffee Shops of Mayfair and Twitters at @paulfish.
I have w... |
| Sep 15, 2009 | GyPSii's New Android App Tries To Create Page-rank For Location | GyPSii, which bills itself as a “mobile digital lifestyle application” centered around geo-tagged content today launches an app for Android phones [get it here].
While there are plenty of other companies doing similar things, Amsterdam-base... |