Who are the top VCs in mobile? Onavo dives into app market share to find out

Everyone wants to have a piece of the mobile pie, but which venture capitalists are actually succeeding?

Onavo Insights taps real user data to see how mobile apps perform

App developers love to tout download and engagement figures, but it's often tough to verify their (sometimes padded) claims. Onavo aims to change that with the launch of Onavo Insights, a new mobile market intelligence platform

Black Friday beats Cyber Monday for mobile shopping

In the battle between made-up consumer holidays, it looks like Black Friday still reigns supreme on mobile devices.

iPhone apps hogging your data? Track their usage with Onavo Count

Onavo, the creator of popular data compression apps for the iPhone and Android, has just launched a new app to help you track apps that are eating up your cellular data.

Onavo: Mobile shoppers compare prices most on Saturdays, buy most on Sundays, Mondays

The rising popularity of mobile shopping apps is leading to entirely new consumer behaviors, according to a joint report by mobile data compression company Onavo and IDC.

Onavo’s data compression makes its way to Android 4.0 devices

Onavo has had something of a split personality for the past year. The company’s iPhone app has won countless awards for its revolutionary data compression capability (including top prize at our MobileBeat 2011 conference), but Android users had to make …

How to attract users to your app and go platinum

If you are a struggling artist or developer working on the next great mobile app, you need a strategy for drawing in users. Keep in mind that buying traffic to convert to users doesn’t always add up. Developing for the mobile platform is vastly different from e-commerce, where the potential average revenue per user (ARPU) is considerably smaller, and in many cases non-existent. At the same time, there’s a limited amount of advertising inventory, and discoverability remains poor...

How a few simple push notifications helped data shrinking app Onavo go viral

One of the great things about Onavo, the hot mobile app that compresses your iPhone’s data, is that most of its magic happens in the background. But while that makes Onavo a breeze to use, it also makes it easy …

Mobile data shrinking app Onavo raises $10M, working on compression for Android

Onavo, a company known for its iPhone app that shrinks mobile data, announced today that it has raised an additional $10 million in a second round of funding from Horizons Ventures and Motorola Mobility Ventures.

Guy Rosen, Onavo’s co-founder and …

Onavo’s Android widget lets you track mobile data usage in real time

Now Android users will have an even better sense of just how much precious bandwidth their apps are using.

Onavo, a company known for its iPhone app that compress mobile data, has upgraded its Android app today with a new …

Onavo, Roar Engine dominate MobileBeat startup contest

We chose 16 mobile startups to take part in our MobileBeat 2011 startup competition today, but only two could win our coveted Tesla prize.

Onavo, a company that compresses mobile data on smartphones and tablets, and Roar Engine, which impressed …

Meet the 8 consumer/app startups for the MobileBeat 2011 competition

It’s that time of the year again: VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2011 conference is coming up on July 12 – 13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. This year our theme is “Who wins in the 4G nirvana?” We’ll be focusing …