Appgyver exclusively announced to VentureBeat that it has raised $1.325M in seed funding for its toolset that developers can use to easily test and deploy apps.
Editor's Pick "There are a few things that are critically missing. One is tooling support. The second is operability. Because those two things don't exist, people are falling back to native. It's not that HTML5 isn't ready; it's that the ecosystem doesn't support it."
Many things you put on Facebook you want to save and share forever. Some things you wish you could delete immediately.
Guest Post Or, why HTML5 disappointed many developers this year.
Imagine designing and creating a native mobile app for iPhone or Android that connects to web services in about 10 minutes. Oh, and you're creating the web services at exactly the same time
Guest Post Just like Apollo Creed and Rocky joined forces to take on Clubber Lang in Rocky II, HTML5 and Digital Rights Management (DRM) are an unstoppable team.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg didn't mince words today about the company's past mobile strategy.
Cloud-based HR software company Workday has launched the latest version of its suite with an emphasis on mobile access through HTML5 web apps, the company announced today.
Workday competes with SAP and Oracle in the professional software and services realm. …
Fusion-io has been mostly known as an enterprise company helping big names like Apple and Facebook to save money on their data center costs.
But today, the company is announcing its first software development kit (SDK) to provide software developers …
Apple’s popular iOS App Store has now topped 25 billion downloads, a sign that mobile device owners are still hungry for well-built native applications.
On Apple’s site, the company has highlighted the achievement with a page that says: “A billion …
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“Forget being in love with the open web and all that touchy-feely stuff.”
Jay Sullivan is Mozilla’s vice president of products, and for a spokesperson of one of the open web’s dearest darlings, he’s on a tear.
“If you want …
Finally, iPhone users could soon get access to the rich Gmail experience that Android users have had since the beginning.
Google is close to launching a native Gmail app for the iPhone, MG Siegler reports. The app may already have …
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(Editor’s note: Jason Taylor is VP of Platform Strategy at Usablenet. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
As smartphones continue their exponential growth and consumers get increasingly comfortable with using them to book travel, conduct research and make purchases, it’s …
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Everyone seems to be gung-ho about HTML5 or native mobile apps, and religiously preaching for one approach over the other. Yet, while mobile giants such as Apple and Google battle it out, some companies are already opting for a third …
Facebook is currently working on an HTML5-based web app for mobile Safari designed to circumvent Apple’s App Store, according to a TechCrunch report.
The application, dubbed Project Spartan, won’t be the first case of a popular tech company going around …
The success of downloadable smartphone apps will continue at least through the next five years. A new study from ABI Research estimates that app industry will achieve 44 billion cumulative downloads by 2016.
If the forecast is correct, it means …
Will HTML5 or native apps lead the charge for the superphone platform? Or is the conflict between the two simply getting overblown?
Today at VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit, we tried to suss out the many aspects of the HTML5 and native …
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Editor’s note: This discussion about the superphone app platform is one of the five themes we will be focusing on at the VentureBeat Mobile Summit, on April 25-26. We’ve carefully invited the top executives in mobile to discuss the biggest …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories that VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Is another Black Ops map pack coming May 3? — The launch details for the second blockbuster Call …
Over the past two decades, the mobile industry has become increasingly stunted by fragmented protocols, standards, and regional differences. But a hot new technology called HTML5 promises to remedy this by delivering an unprecedented open, democratic and wonderfully fertile mobile …
