Software that lets parents see what their kids do on Facebook gets $1M

Qustodio, which creates software that lets parents see into a child's browsing behavior and application use on many devices, received $1 million in seed funding today.

Intel Capital makes a big bet on Android with investment in Bluestacks (exclusive)

Add Intel Capital to the growing list of companies eager to work with Bluestacks.

App developers: need reach, retention, revenue? Scringo doubles time-in-app and recurring sessions

Your app is wonderful, amazing, and awesome, and it's one in a million. Literally.

We will download 70 billion mobile apps in 2013 (50% Android, 41% iOS)

In 2013, we'll download ten apps for every single woman, man, and child on planet Earth.

Kid spends $2,500 on iTunes in 15 minutes

Five-year-old Danny Kitchen of Bristol, England, spent $2,500 on iTunes in-app purchases in about 15 minutes, the Beeb reports. Score!

Getaround’s new iPhone app lets you take a spin in a stranger’s Tesla Model S

Getaround, the car sharing service backed by investors like Marissa Mayer and Google's Eric Schmidt, hopes its new iPhone app will prompt you to consider an alternative to car ownership.

Microsoft’s Bing Fund invests in social discovery app Sonar

New York City startup Sonar announced today that is has received a strategic investment from Microsoft's Bing Fund.

Amazon Cloud Player now available for iPad, but Kindle is erasing your entire book library

Amazon's assault on Apple's iTunes empire continues today as the Seattle company released its Cloud Player app for iPad and iPad Mini.

Facebook updates SDK for iOS to help developers know what’s going on (and make more money)

With tracking capabilities like these, the new SDK is almost starting to impinge on dedicated app analytics solutions like App Annie and Flurry, but of course in a purely Facebook-focused manner.

Build your own native ‘no coding’ app

Siebrand Dijkstra wants anyone to be able to make an app. He's the CEO of AppMachine, which just launched a Mobile World Congress. The company lets users build a complex native application for Android or iPhone from simple native application building blocks he compares to lego bricks.

CloudOn completes its mobile invasion by putting Microsoft Office on Android phones

After successfully bringing Microsoft Office to the iPad, iPhone, and Android tablets, CloudOn is today announcing support for Android phones with version 4.0 of its app.

Xamarin debuts iOS and Android app development inside Visual Studio for C# programmers

If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad ... and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets. And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite development environment, Visual Studio.

Kleverbeast lets anyone make designer-quality tablet apps without a lick of code

These days it's not enough to just create a mobile app -- to truly compete, you need an app that takes full advantage of the huge leaps we've seen in mobile design.

Forrester’s top 10 trends for mobile in 2013

You can sum up Forrester's prognostications on 2013 trends for mobile in three little words.

Paragon CEO: We want to support our app users, but ‘Apple says we can’t’

You probably don't know that you can spend $180, $350, or even $1,000 on an iPhone app. What you don't want to know is that your purchase of even the most expensive app doesn't guarantee you'll be able to use it for years to come.

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