This unification is increasingly relevant in a fragmented app marketplace where “app fatigue” tempers growth for individual app developers. Similarly for app developers, retailers, and small businesses, it offers economies of scale and the ability...
For app developers, App Store optimization is an incredibly important yet frequently overlooked opportunity when trying to create traction and growth (i.e.more downloads). Brand Trust: Is the app released by a maker that has a trusted arsenal of...
Baidu has built a network of thousands of third-party developers that produced tens of thousands of apps, according to Kuo. Kuo said people go to a search engine to find three basic categories of things: data, content, and applications.
Facebook has unveiled plans for its App Center service, which will allow developers to offer their applications to users as both free and paid applications on the iOS and Android mobile platforms, as well as desktop- and web-based applications.
Developers can get people talking about their app with Facebook friends directly on their platform and increase engagement for the application. This will help app developers identify how to better engage and retain their app user-base and use this...
Last month, a developer of applications ('apps') for Apple's mobile devices discovered that the social networking app Path was accessing and collecting the contents of his iPhone address book without having asked for his consent," read the...
The issue revolves around a permissions loophole that grants third-party app developers the ability to copy users photos to a remote server without notice, as long as a user given the app consent to access the internet.
Analyst firm Canalys' App Interrogator study found that the top 100 paid applications on the Android service cost $3.74 on average, compared to an average cost of just $1.47 for the most popular paid iOS apps.
The agreement, which came about after pressure from the U.S.justice system and California's attorney general, Kamala Harris, will bring the mobile application market in line with California laws, and requires all applications that collect personal...
The report, Mobile Apps for Kids: Current Privacy Disclosures Are Disappointing, said that neither app stores nor the app developers provide the information parents need to determine what data is being collected from their children, how it is...
Further, the whole point is that x.commerce is an open platform for the masses of developers to design cool applications that can be sold to or used by the growing ranks of commerce-based SMBs. But if there is a killer app, it will be found by the...
Something developers will likely jump for joy over is the basic set of hangout APIs being previewed. Only supported on Android 2.3+ phones with front facing cameras, this app is now available in the Android Market for download.
Google's $750 million purchase of AdMob was a solid move; it expanded Google's reach into mobile advertising and gave an especially powerful option for mobile app developers. As Google puts it, the advantage is that "by having products to suit the...
The company will soon offer mobile app versions of Yahoo Messenger with built-in video calling capabilities. Developers must access BOSS V2 via the Yahoo Developer Network standard oAuth-based authentication.
Rev Share Model with App Developers Apple says app developers -- the Apple equivalent of publishers -- are paid 60 percent of all revenue. Early reports of teenage developers making upwards of $1,400 per day aren't a surprise, as big brands dumped...
The first Twitter applications are well established, and as the Twitter platform matures developers will need to be more creative.a case in point," he added. In a study by Eden Zoller and named Twitter grows up and gets serious, Ovum's principal...
RiotWise Trending Ads offers another exciting option for developers to monetize their social web applications. These ads can be accessed by web developers who can then monetize their apps with the ads.
Google says mobile app developers can tell Google Analytics what actions taken by users would trigger the analytics tracking. It can also inform future app development by helping developers meet customer needs and desires.
Developers for both platforms will be able to see which actions are taken and which features are used within an app. Google Analytics now tracks mobile applications developed for iPhone and Android. Android developers get a richer feature set...
This greater functionality will allow some developers to sidestep the process of native app development by instead building mobile Web sites. As discussed in "The Future of the Mobile Web: To App or Not to App?
