Catalogs is the Apple app store’s stealth (soft) porn category

Earlier this year, Apple rejected an app, Geometric Porn, that featured squares, triangles, circles, and even rectangles in juxtapositions reminiscent of intercourse. Fairly tame stuff, one might think, but it contravened both Apple’s and Google’s app store guidelines.

Some surfing …

Adobe and NBC team up for the first-ever Olympics apps

This year’s Summer Olympics won’t just have you glued to your TV: NBC Olympics and Adobe today announced the first two official Olympics apps that will allow you to view live video, highlights, news, and more on your smartphone or …

The Good Ear wins our MobileBeat smartphone app competition

The Good Ear, a company that has developed a smartphone app to help with hearing loss, has emerged triumphant in our smartphone app competition at MobileBeat 2012.

For winning the competition, The Good Ear bagged our Tesla Prize, which is …

Push.io opens its content-focused push notifications platform to all

After spending three years in stealth mode bringing publishers to its push notifications platform, Push.io is emerging from the shadows today and announcing that it will open its push platform to any iOS app developer later this month.

The company …

Placed brings its location analytics to iOS apps

You probably know how long consumers are using your mobile app, and what they’re doing within them — but where are they actually located? That’s the question that location analytics company Placed hopes to answer with its product, Placed for …

Nukotoys wins our MobileBeat tablet startup competition

Five startups showed off their tablet apps at MobileBeat 2012 today, but only NukoToys impressed the judges enough to win our startup tablet competition.

The company has developed interactive tablet apps that work together with trading cards, making them perfect …

ESPN hopes to own mobile, starting with a new college football app

ESPN already considers mobile its fourth largest network (after the ESPN and ESPN2 TV networks and ESPN.com), but this isn’t stopping the company from focusing even further on mobile devices.

The company will soon debut new college football mobile apps, …

Zynga’s Mark Pincus says focus more on content, less on investing in platforms

One of the major issues with the mobile ecosystem today is that developers are still separated from the app store, insists Zynga founder Mark Pincus.

“We need to be more interconnected with each other as an industry,” Pincus said at …

Facebook App Center goes international, opens to all users

It seems like Facebook’s App Center is getting some global love. The social network’s marketplace is officially open to all users in the U.S. and seven other countries, and it will soon expand to seven more countries with new, translated …

Acquired by SweetLabs, Instagrille relaunches to make Instagram photos shine on PCs

How sweet it is to be loved by Instagram users.

A 22-year-old Ukrainian developer’s quest to win an application contest with an Instagram desktop app called Instagrille won him something more sugary than the $30,000 grand prize purse. Denys Denysiuk, …

Stuck at home this Summer? Tripl lets you relive your friends’ travels

If you’re tired of Travel Channel reruns, New York City-based Tripl wants to offer you a more social alternative: a simple way to follow your friends’ travels via geographical information in their social media posts.

While it won’t compete with …

Learn the ins and outs of running your app biz at MobileBeat 2012

There’s more to running an app business than just building a cool app. Join us at MobileBeat 2012, where some of the minds behind popular apps like ESPN Mobile, Z2Live, and CBS Interactive discuss what it takes to create a …

Appageddon aftermath: Apple, where do your negative reviews go? (updated)

Appagedon is over, for now. Apps are once again being downloaded from Apple's app store, they're working, and all is well in Apple's app-dom.

Facebook-for-doctors network Doximity tackles America’s 5th-leading cause of death

The fifth leading cause of death in America is not cars, cancer, or camping in the woods with buxom beauties while listening to creepy music.

Rather, it’s doctors.

More specifically, medical mistakes and errors resulting from miscommunication. That’s exactly what …

Instapaper founder: Apple’s app corruption issues affected more than a “small number” of users

Apple last night clarified ongoing issues with corrupted apps on the iOS and Mac App Stores, saying that it was related to a problem with its DRM servers and that the issues only affected a “small number of users.”

But …

Watchup aims to be the only iPad news video app you’ll ever need

Tablets are a dream come true for news junkies, but with a tidal wave of content spread across countless apps and sites, it’s tough to just sit back and stay informed.

Watchup, a new startup competing at our MobileBeat 2012 …

Make it rain cash: The Weather Channel snags Weather Underground for an undisclosed sum

Weather is normally really dull, but it’s a tad more exciting when there’s lots of money involved.

Weather provider The Weather Channel is scooping up online weather veteran Weather Underground. Exact details of the deal weren’t disclosed, so our references …

Because TVs & iPads belong together, Brightcove targets dual-screen Apple TV apps

Soon your iPhone (and/or iPad) won’t just be the device you immediately reach for whenever a long patch of commercial interruptions comes on while watching a TV show.

Today Brightcove is announcing a new set of tools for its App …

Firefox for Android gets a major update, may be the best mobile browser yet (hands-on)

Watch out Google Chrome: For many Android users, Mozilla’s updated Firefox app could quickly become their favorite mobile browser.

Mozilla has been beta testing a revamped version of its Android Firefox app for over a month now, and today the …

Pirate’s dream come true: Boxopus pushes torrents to your Dropbox account

In popular culture, the giant octopus has always been a notorious enemy to pirates. But when it comes to new service Boxopus, Internet pirates might have a new best friend that will help them store illegally obtained media in their …