We’re pleased to announced some heavy hitters at DiscoveryBeat 2010. The conference addressing the evolving problem of discovery in an era full of app stores and content. Our newest speakers have navigated these stores and managed to get their content …
We’re stirring up the interest in 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 about how his company made a …
VentureBeat is gearing up for our second annual DiscoveryBeat 2010 conference and are pleased to announce our first speakers.
Our conference on Oct. 18 — expanded to a full day of proceedings — will highlight the evolving landscape of discovery …
Apple‘s App Store now has more than 250,000 apps, just two years and a couple of months after it opened. The 148Apps.biz web site now counts 252,227 active apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
That’s an extraordinary achievement. …
If you’re a content publisher these days, you’re probably feeling like a needle in a haystack. How on earth will you ever get found, amid all the content out there fighting for attention? If so, you should enter our DiscoveryBeat …
Scoreloop has scored an interesting deal for its social platform for mobile games. The Munich-based company is announcing today that it will provide a social gaming hub to Taiwanese phone carrier Chunghwa Telecom. That will help Scoreloop’s mobile social game …
The creators of smash hit game Angry Birds visited me yesterday, and they were all smiles. The two developers from Helsinki-based company Rovio have sold more than 6.5 million copies of the iPhone game on the App Store since December. …
So how do you get attention?
If you’re a developer of a web application and trying to compete with hundreds of thousands of applications already out there, it isn’t easy. An ever-expanding recipe of tricks is needed to stay in …
We’re pleased to present the videos of our DiscoveryBeat panel sessions that took place on Dec. 8.
They’re a good way to learn from some of the smartest minds about how to get your application noticed in an age of …
Entrepreneurs, developers, and others gathered in San Francisco yesterday for DiscoveryBeat 2009, VentureBeat’s sold-out event on how applications can stand out in “an age of noise.”
It’s considered easier to get struck by lightning these days than to get someone …
Wednesday’s DiscoveryBeat 2009 conference, an afternoon event about app development monetization put on by VentureBeat, was like all our events: High on how-to wonkery, low on self-promotion pitches, and as one person put it, “no douchebags.”
Yet each of the …
Intellectual property is one of the next big opportunities in social gaming, according to Sebastien de Hellaux, co-founder and president of Playfish. Specifically, the industry still lacks a franchise like Super Marios Bros., something that could become a “poster child” …
“A great product and a great relationship with Apple is really the killer combination,” said Julian Farrior, chief executive at Backflip Studios. “So find someone who works at Apple, a cousin or someone.”
This seemed to be the defining sentiment …
Bill Mooney, general manager of Zynga’s insanely popular social game FarmVille, offered his advice for social game developers today at VentureBeat’s DiscoveryBeat 2009 event in San Francisco. Speed seemed to be the theme uniting his different ideas. The social game …
DiscoveryBeat is approaching on Tuesday and we’re nearly sold out. The event is about solving one of the toughest problems in the social/mobile/gaming ecosystem: How do you get apps noticed amid a lot of noise?
We’ve got room for 200 …
