Hooked Media turns in an entirely new take on app recommendation — one that Apple can’t kill

May 23, 2013 2:55 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

App recommendation engines are getting booted from Apple's app store because they suck, according to a new player in the app-finding business. But Hooked Media has come up with an entirely new take on app recommendation that has two unique qualities.

Marissa Mayer and Yahoo are on fire, acquiring gaming company PlayerScale

May 23, 2013 8:31 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

If I can paraphrase a popular Alicia Keys song, this woman is on fire. Marissa Mayer is clearly moving Yahoo back into the center of the Silicon Valley tech conversation.

Even Apple isn’t sure whether AppGratis actually violated Apple’s app store guidelines

April 10, 2013 8:01 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Editor's Pick AppGratis may have violated Apple guidelines, and it may not have. It's very much up to interpretation and opinion. And very obviously, having first approved and then within days rejecting AppGratis, even Apple doesn't have the same opinion all the time about the same app.

The mobile war is over and the app has won: 80% of mobile time spent in apps

April 3, 2013 11:10 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Only 20 percent of American consumers' time on mobile devices is spent on the web. A massive majority, 80 percent, is spent in apps: games, news, productivity, utility, and social networking apps.

Twitter just gave mobile app developers an absolutely massive user-acquisition gift

April 3, 2013 8:01 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Developers and marketers can now add users directly via Twitter, simply by adding a few lines of code to any content shared from their app to the social network.

What developers do with HTML5 (infographic)

February 26, 2013 6:00 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

70 percent of North American developers are already using HTML5, as are roughly 60 percent of South American, European, and Chinese developers.

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

February 20, 2013 6:04 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

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.

AppGratis closes $13.5M in funding with revenue at $1M/month and users growing at 300K/day

January 17, 2013 9:00 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

"We've been approaching the US market very cautiously almost with a bit of fear," Dawlat told me. "We're a little French company, but the growth we're seeing now ... this is completely mind-blowing for us."

Ooomf debuts step-by-step guide to help you launch your app in 2013

January 1, 2013 10:14 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

If you're thinking of launching an app this year, consider making it a New Year's resolution. And, perhaps, take advantage of Ooomf's new Launch This Year: a personalized step-by-step guide to making it happen.

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

December 7, 2012 9:40 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

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.

Apple vs. App Annie: the definitive story on 2012 iOS app store revenue growth

November 30, 2012 10:20 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

You know the old story about statistics and liars, right? Statistics lie, and liars use statistics, or so the old saw says. There's a good reason for that: statistics are so damn easy to lie with. Even when you don't mean to.

Mobile app development: 94% of software developers bet on HTML5 winning

November 7, 2012 4:13 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

A few months ago, when Facebook admitted defeat and went native with its iOS app, some thought it was a death-knell for HTML5.

iPhone’s app download share falls below 30%, but iPads have 5X the downloads of Android tabs

November 5, 2012 8:47 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

According to a just-released study from London-based ABI Research, iPhone had only 29 percent of app downloads in the second quarter of 2012, compared to 47 percent for Android.

PHP developers excited (mostly) about new mobile app development capabilities

October 24, 2012 8:10 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

PHP developers are looking forward to exercising their new powers. Hopefully, for good.

Convert.com throws Clutch.io developers an A/B testing lifeline

October 18, 2012 12:31 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Nine days after Clutch.io announced that it was shutting down its mobile testing service, Convert.com has thrown developers a lifesaver.

Twilio is now available all around the world

October 17, 2012 10:15 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Twilio's expansion means big things for developers working internationally. Historially, geopolitically bounded mobile carriers have made it difficult for certain types of apps to flourish without lots of behind-the-scenes infrastructure and business machinations.

Twitter open-sources Clutch.io so developers can easily add A/B testing to iOS and Android apps

October 11, 2012 4:09 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

When Twitter bought mobile A/B testing creator Clutch.io just two months ago, the team behind Clutch promised to open source the components behind both their A/B testing tool, and the company's mobile development framework.

Geoloqi adds 3 partnerships, extends reach to 1.6M devs

March 11, 2012 1:43 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Geoloqi, a company helping developers add geo-location abilities to their applications, announced three partnerships today that will enable the company to reach to 1.6 million mobile developers.

Geoloqi, which is pronounced geo-low-key, provides tools developers need to add geo-location features …