Finding the right app is getting hard in an age of app overkill. That’s why Appitalism has started a social community, combined with an online store, to help consumers quickly discover, discuss, and download the best digital content.
The Appitalism …
Who will be the Google of discovery? VentureBeat tackled that tantalizing question at our DiscoveryBeat 2010 event in San Francisco on Monday. More than 200 attendees listened to talks on how to get apps noticed. We had the full ecosystem …
Location-based check-in service Foursquare saw a massive amount of success, both globally and in the United States, because it focused on multiple mobile platforms rather than a single one like Apple’s iPhone operating system or Google’s Android, according to Foursquare …
Veteran game designer Brian Reynolds said today that FrontierVille, the game that launched earlier this year, was a way for Zynga to experiment with a new kind of social game design. And the experiment paid off.
Unlike Zynga’s previous games, …
Bing Gordon, who has invested in hot gaming companies like Zynga and just-acquired Ngmoco, said today that for app developers, just getting discovered is overrated. What’s important, he said, is making sure users keep coming back.
Gordon is a former …
When it comes to making money on apps, Apple developers are far ahead of Google Android developers. But PapayaMobile is announcing today that it has set up key partners to enable in-app purchases for Android apps.
If developers support it …
Unsocial, a mobile app that helps people find potential business connections in their immediate vicinity, came out of stealth mode today at VentureBeat’s DiscoveryBeat 2010 conference in San Francisco.
Unsocial users can connect their LinkedIn accounts, or create a unique …
Getting stuff discovered on the App Store is pretty tough, considering there are about 300,000 apps available. But there’s an app for that. YD Online is launching its Angel’s Choice app today at the DiscoveryBeat 2010 conference in San Francisco.…
Discovering new and useful Android apps isn’t easy. That’s why AppStoreHQ is introducing appESP, a personalized discovery platform for finding new apps on Android phones.
The company is releasing the app today at DiscoveryBeat 2010, our conference on getting apps …
DiscoveryBeat 2010 is just a day away. The conference at the Mission Bay conference center in San Francisco will have a single-minded focus on the problem of discovery, or finding the content that you want.
Like in the early days …
We’re excited that DiscoveryBeat 2010 is coming up on Monday. And it’s about time we posted our final speakers.
DiscoveryBeat 2010 is an event focused on the secret recipes for application discovery and monetization. Our newest speakers represent vital parts …
Bing Gordon is sitting pretty in the new gaming gold rush that’s all social and mobile. A partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, he has been the critical consigliere for sizzling startups Ngmoco and Zynga, which have already generated …
To Infrinity and beyond! That’s the battle cry for Infrinity, the startup that has won our Needle in the Haystack business contest for DiscoveryBeat 2010.
Infrinity attacks the problem of discovery — how to get your apps noticed when there …
We’re entering the home stretch in preparations for DiscoveryBeat 2010, our conference about how to get apps noticed. DiscoveryBeat 2010 is an event focused on the secret recipes for application discovery and monetization. Our newest speakers represent vital parts of …
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 …
Zynga‘s acquisition spree continues as the social game company announced today it has acquired Bonfire Studios, a Dallas-based social game startup. The price wasn’t disclosed.
The new studio will be called Zynga Dallas. The company’s three founders — David Rippy, …
The list of great speakers for DiscoveryBeat 2010 keeps growing. DiscoveryBeat 2010 is an event focused on the “secret recipe” for application discovery and monetization. Our newest speakers represent vital parts of the ecosystem for getting content noticed.
Due to …
Mobile app store operator GetJar plans to shake up the mobile game industry by giving away millions of copies of mobile games for free.
That’s going to make it tough on companies that are trying to sell high-quality mobile games, …
We’ve got just a couple of hours left until the deadline for our Needle in the Haystack business idea contest for DiscoveryBeat 2010.
At our first DiscoveryBeat event last December, Ge Wang, chief technology officer and co-founder of Smule spoke …
We’re pleased to announce some more big thinkers slated to speak at DiscoveryBeat 2010, the conference addressing the evolving problem of discovery in an era full of app stores and content. Our newest speakers represent vital parts of the ecosystem …
