A month after Apple infamously booted app discovery engine AppGratis from the app store, the company has approved a new type of app discovery engine, this one based on friends, celebrities, and their apps.
Hubbl (still) says app discovery is broken but that contextual advertising could fix it.
Editor's Pick AppGratis may have violated Apple guidelines, and it may not have. It's very much up to interpretation and opinion. And very obviously, having first approved and then within days rejecting AppGratis, even Apple doesn't have the same opinion all the time about the same app.
Fetch enables users to find games and apps based on personalized preferences.
Ask.com and app discovery engine Quixey have signed a deal that will see explicit app search capabilities embedded within a major search engine for the first time.
While the number of app stores has grown exponentially, discovering new ones is as tough as ever. Hubbl, however, may have the solution.
Despite some major revisions to the biggest mobile app platform stores, finding new and cool apps is still kind of difficult, which is something Hapoose plans to change.
Presumably, app discovery on iPhone and iPad is now solved, according to Apple.
AppAide, an iOS app that helps you find new apps people actually use, has greatly expanded its reach of what apps you might come across with the addition of app categories.
How do you promote your app before it's even launched? Or create buzz around just one more app in a sea of 600,000 others?
Apple has killed off recently acquired social application discovery tool Chomp’s Android feature. The tool, which helps people discover new apps, was previously directing people to interesting Android apps in Google Play.
Chomp was acquired by Apple in February this …
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 developers and businesses looking to distinguish their …
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This discussion about mobile economy is one of the five themes we will be focusing on at the VentureBeat Mobile Summit, on April 25-26. We’ve carefully invited the top executives in mobile to discuss the biggest challenges of the …
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Peter Yared is the vice president of apps at Webtrends, which acquired Transpond, a social-apps developer he founded. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.
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Applications purchased on the Android Marketplace for phones running Google’s Android mobile operating system can now be charged to AT&T phone accounts and paid for whenever users pay their bill normally.
The change could help application developers by making it …
Are you an app developer with a creation that’s ready for the klieg lights? VentureBeat has partnered with Intel to provide a new showcase for your mobile app: VentureBeat’s Mobile App Spotlight.
Why did we create this program? Fundamentally, we …
StumbleUpon, traditionally a tool for website discovery, is taking a crack at application discovery on the Android Marketplace with the launch of its App Discovery feature on its Android app today.
The mobile app, which already helps users discover new …
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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 …
