Donate to charity by sharing your location with Placed’s new app

Give 2 Charity, a new app from the location analytics company Placed, offers a new spin on digital giving.

No more fast food guilt: Edamam’s healthy recipe finder hits the iPad

There are plenty of recipe discovery apps and websites, but Edamam is hoping to stand out with its focus on helping you eat better.

Geolocation app Life360 has 25 million users, a way to make money

Life360, an app that helps you keep track of your family members, has reached 25 million registered users, and is rolling out new features.

Google Maps mobile lead: We had to crawl before we could walk in app design (interview)

To learn more about how Google approached building the long-awaited app, we chatted with Daniel Graf, the director of Google Maps for mobile.

Apple names top free and paid apps of 2012

Apple has named the top free and paid iApps of 2012 -- as well as the company's picks for best apps and best games of the year.

Google Maps now live on the Apple app store (and it’s better than ever)

As rumored earlier tonight, Google Maps is now available on the iOS app store. It's completely revamped and, from my early experience, better than ever.

Seesaw will help your friends help you make up your mind

Seesaw has raised a $1 to $1.5 million seed round and plans to use it to build an app that will help you get advice from your friends in real time.

Robots need apps too

Is your robot stressed? Robot yoga for the humanoid robot Nao is just one of the applications you can download from the RobotAppStore, which just landed a $250,000 investment from Grishin Robotics.

Mobile developers: This is how you get 500,000 installs in one day

In 2008 a French engineer in Silicon Valley started a newsletter about a fascinating new slice of the technology market: mobile apps. Today, his company regularly drives 250,000 downloads for featured apps ... and sometimes more than 500,000.

Google quietly deletes free version of Google Apps for Business

Google said today that only the premium version of its Apps for Business would be available from now on, for $50 per user per year.

HootSuite adds 5 more power tools to manage blogs, videos … and Pinterest

This morning HootSuite users will find five more apps in the social media power tool's app directory: Vimeo, Wordpress.org, Via.me, Reachli, and Scripted.

Half of revenue generated by iOS and Android apps goes to just 25 developers

Even though Apple and Google’s app stores offer more than 1.4 million apps combined, just 25 U.S. developers generate half of the revenue from app sales, according to a new study.

Kik Messenger hits 30M users, launches Kik Cards to easily share media

While the hype for group messaging apps has died down considerably over the past few years, that hasn't stopped Kik Messenger from continuing to improve its app.

Apple’s app store revenue is 4X Google Play’s … but Google Play is growing 24X faster

Apple's App Store is still the king of mobile apps stores, with the four times the revenue of Google Play, but Google Play is growing much, much faster than the App Store.