Can Android be charming? How do you pronounce "Ouya"? Find out in this interview from MobileBeat 2012.
At our recent MobileBeat event, we caught up with W3i co-founder Rob Weber to talk about user acquisition, a.k.a. persuading people to download your app, a.k.a. the seamiest of underbellies in the world of developing and marketing mobile applications.
It’s …
Editor's Pick Zynga chief Mark Pincus isn't shy about expressing his opinion -- especially at our MobileBeat/GamesBeat 2012 conference last week. Here's the video.
It’s only been a few days since MobileBeat 2012 concluded, but I’m already missing the great energy and conversations from the show.
Thanks to everyone who joined us at the conference to discuss design and its implications for the mobile …
Swrve, a product for A/B testing for web and mobile apps, pretty much lives at the corner of pretty design and profitable apps.
At MobileBeat 2012, which was all about mobile design, we took a few moments to chat with …
Every incubator has a formula, and most of those formulas involve throwing “spaghetti” of some kind against the proverbial wall to find out what will stick.
Trouble is, most of the time, the entrepreneurs are the spaghetti themselves. And if …
A few people from TourWrist, the startup behind the very cool 360-degree panorama tool of the same name, came out to VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2012 conference this week and built nine panos for us.
But here’s the deal: you gotta view …
Box CEO and co-founder, Aaron Levie knows a thing or two about cloud computing and designing enterprise applications for mobile.
When we gave him a mic at this year’s MobileBeat to discuss these topics, he advised the audience to go …
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Over 50 million people currently use Dropbox, and users are adding files at a rate of one billion every 48 hours. But it’s not just viral growth, word of mouth growth, smart branding, and effective marketing.
It’s also preloads on …
Shop assistants everywhere, rejoice! Finally a technology that aims to spell the death of the all too frequent question: “Do you have that in stock?
Retailigence provides a backend database to serve both mobile shoppers and retailers. Since the launch …
Location analytics company Placed beat out four other mobile services companies today at our MobileBeat Innovation Competition.
For winning the competition, Placed bagged our Tesla Prize, which is named after Nikola Tesla, the scientist who developed early mobile communication. The …
The Good Ear, a company that has developed a smartphone app to help with hearing loss, has emerged triumphant in our smartphone app competition at MobileBeat 2012.
For winning the competition, The Good Ear bagged our Tesla Prize, which is …
Mobile advertising is lame. The ads interrupt activity, cover content, and even the developers themselves are left unsatisfied. AdColony, however, says its HD-video ad format will tickle dev’s fancies because the technology is tested on the company’s own apps first.…
After spending three years in stealth mode bringing publishers to its push notifications platform, Push.io is emerging from the shadows today and announcing that it will open its push platform to any iOS app developer later this month.
The company …
You probably know how long consumers are using your mobile app, and what they’re doing within them — but where are they actually located? That’s the question that location analytics company Placed hopes to answer with its product, Placed for …
Proving that smartphones can really do just about anything, The Good Ear has developed an iPhone app that can analyze and treat hearing loss.
You may think this is a niche group of users, but according to a recent Johns …
If you’ve ever wanted to speed through your tweets faster, Fluid Interaction‘s just-launched Twheel app may be exactly what you’re looking for. The company’s app turns your Twitter feed into a rotating wheel and claims to increase your “tweet consumption …
If you’re anything like me, conference calls are one of the more annoying aspects of your workday. Thankfully, enterprise-focused startup MobileDay wants to make at least one aspect of conference calls less unpleasant — the dial-in.
MobileDay, which is competing …
For advertisers, tablets may beget some of the most creative and innovative digital ads, which could also be more valuable than comparable desktop ads, according to Google’s head of mobile sales and strategy Jason Spero.
“From a creativity standpoint and …
Manish Chandra understands how to design immersive mobile apps. His latest mobile startup, Poshmark, launched in December, and its primarily female user-base is already doubling every month — so much so that it’s creating “Poshmark widows.”
Poshmark is a shopping …
