Q&A: Flurry, T-Mobile push boundaries on carrier-developer collaboration

Q&A: Flurry, T-Mobile push boundaries on carrier-developer collaboration

Flurry, a company that provides analytics for mobile applications, and T-Mobile have teamed up to release a free analytics platform for the T-Mobile development community focusing on Android, BlackBerry and J2ME. With even more app usage data, T-Mobile will be able to improve its retail strategy and help its customers discover new apps.

On the other side of the coin, developers will be able to use the data to improve the applications they create. T-Mobile is also… Continue Reading

Report charts out “iPhone Middle Class” of app developers

Report charts out “iPhone Middle Class” of app developers

Flurry, a small San Francisco company that provides application use data to mobile app developers, has done a study of the app developers you don’t normally read in the press. They’re neither the top nor the bottom of the field, they’re the bourgeoisie in the middle, the iPhone Middle Class making money but not garnering headlines for their moderate sales revenue.

Flurry’s analysis will be ongoing, but the first post already brings useful analysis of the… Continue Reading

Report shows iPhone and iPod Touch dominate usage in April

Report shows iPhone and iPod Touch dominate usage in April

The iPhone continues to dominate the landscape for mobile applications, according to a report on mobile phone usage in April by analytics firm Flurry.

The data shows the iPhone dominates the landscape for mobile apps usage at 56 percent. It is followed by the iPod Touch at 28 percent and Google Android at 16 percent.

That represents a slight slip for Apple and a gain for Android. In March, the iPhone and iPod Touch accounted for 87… Continue Reading

Flurry signs up hundreds of iPhone and Android developers for its analytics tool

Flurry signs up hundreds of iPhone and Android developers for its analytics tool

The problem facing many mobile application developers is that they don’t get the best analytics information on the cross-platform software they create.

That’s why San Francisco-based Flurry has launched a new mobile application analytics tool that works across a variety of mobile platforms, including the iPhone and Google’s Android. Today, the company is announcing that more than 300 developers have used its free service since the beta launched in October.

The analytics also work with the The… Continue Reading

Roundup: Facebook’s cashout, Google-Yahoo delayed and more

Roundup: Facebook’s cashout, Google-Yahoo delayed and more

Here’s the latest action:

Google and Yahoo delay ad deal
— The delay gives the Justice Department more time for its antitrust investigation. This news, as well as calls by Sen. Herb Kohl (chair of the Senate Antitrust Committee) for more scrutiny, probably doesn’t bode well for the deal, though it may buy the tech companies more time to negotiate.

Wells Fargo plans merger with Wachovia — Friday’s announcement came only four days after Citigroup agreed to buy Wachovia’s… Continue Reading

Flurry, offering free email for your phone, raises $3.5M

Flurry, offering free email for your phone, raises $3.5M

Flurry, a San Francisco company that offers an easy download for your mobile phone to let you email and read news for free, has raised $3.5 million in a first round of financing.

Flurry is useful because it helps you get email without having to buy an expensive smartphone. It lets you read news via RSS.

Now it hits crunch time. After signing up 140,000 users over the past year (we don’t know how many of them… Continue Reading