Mim hits 1M downloads in 24 hours
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 by Richard Harris
Mīm (pronounced “Mime”) has announced a record-breaking achievement just 24 hours after releasing in the App Store. Mīm, which hosts contests for user-submitted funny videos, launched their first challenge yesterday, gaining over one million users. In fact, the app received so much traction that it caused complications on their servers. Mīm gives users the ability to sh...
Vita finalizes secure NDA for public beta testers
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Vita Mobile Systems, Inc. has announced the Company is finalizing its plans to begin public beta testing across the US. The Company has worked with its legal team to finalize a secure non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to be used with the select public beta testers. The VITA app has already been undergoing internal beta testing and utilizing large social media influencers a...
Fillr reaches 100 million monthly active users
Thursday, August 10, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Fillr has announced that its mobile Autofill as a Service platform now reaches 100 million monthly active users worldwide. Providing one-click, accurate, and secure autofill for checkout forms, the Fillr Autofill as a Service (FAaaS) platform helps mobile digital commerce businesses take advantage of the exploding growth in mobile commerce, which claims 90 percent of mo...
The future of cloud communications
Friday, January 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
As the popularity of using Cloud-enabled platforms grows, the market for such features is quickly ballooning in size. I'm sure you've heard about this latest trend in both tech and non-tech industries of adopting the power that a Cloud platform can provide, and in turn, some really special things are happening as its evolution continues down the road. But what's the fut...
Next Entertainment closes $25M series A
Thursday, December 15, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Next Entertainment, a global live broadcasting platform company founded by Internet entrepreneur and FunPlus founder Andy Zhong, has announced a $25 million Series A investment to enable the company’s global expansion, including hiring talent in San Francisco, Tokyo, Taipei, and Beijing. It was incubated by Inke, a Chinese mobile live streaming company, and the investme...
SSPs are NOT dead
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
In light of many folks in the industry considering SSP’s to be extinct, Andrew Gerhart, COO of AerServ, a mobile-first video mediation platform believes that a full service SSP can offer additional services such as viewability measurement, fraud and ad quality measurement. He contends that many individuals focus on irrational negatives, and ignore the positives SSP’s br...
CEO of Manage Mike Ng Discusses the Evolution of Mobile Advertising
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently chatted with Mike Ng, CEO of Manage, to discuss the mobile advertising marketplace and the changes undergoing the industry.ADM: I understand Manage has been around for about 5 years as a mobile DSP. How has the company evolved over the years? Ng: When Manage was founded 5 years ago, we decided to focus primarily on mobile in-app marketing. We were one o...
Sailthru Adds Mobile Messaging Automation with Purchase of Carnival.io
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Sailthru has acquired Carnival.io, a mobile marketing automation company. This acquisition will provide the ability to offer new functionality by adding mobile marketing automation to the Sailthru Customer Retention Cloud.Carnival’s mobile marketing automation suite includes push notifications, in-app messaging and a customizable message stream which provides the abilit...
Online Performance Is as Important as InGame Performance for the Super Bowl
Friday, February 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The biggest sports day of the year will also be a huge day for companies who have an investment in the big game. We visited with Tom Lounibos, CEO of SOASTA, to discuss how digital performance management is particularly important during “spikey” events such as the Super Bowl, where digital performance can make or break a brand.He also provides insights into SOASTA’s Sup...
MBaaS: The Missing Piece in Your Mobile App Strategy
Sunday, December 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
There is not an IT team out there that isn’t feeling the pressure to feed their customers, employees, and other stakeholder’s insatiable appetite for mobile solutions. The problem grows daily and developers have to work smarter and faster to meet the increasing demand.Fortunately, a growing number of services are being introduced within the industry to help alleviate th...
Three Ways Video Ads Can Boost Your App Monetization Strategy
Friday, November 6, 2015 by Yannis Dosios
There’s no doubt that mobile app usage is growing quickly - Flurry from Yahoo recently reported that overall, app usage grew 76 percent in 2014. While this growth has created an incredible opportunity for mobile developers to turn their apps into successful businesses, developers often struggle to find the right balance between monetization and user experience, fearing ...
Teradata Integrated Marketing Cloud Offers Expanded Integrated Solutions
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Teradata Marketing Applications, a division of Teradata, has released the latest version of the Teradata Integrated Marketing Cloud, a data hub comprising integrated solutions to improve customer engagement through data-driven integrated marketing.The Teradata Integrated Marketing Cloud is a fully integrated platform comprising solutions for Marketing Resource Managemen...
What CEO and CFO Should Know About Digital Transformation
Friday, September 11, 2015 by Anatoly Belaychuk
When it comes to technology, Digital Transformation is probably the hottest topic at corporate boardrooms today.Why so? Mobile, social, cloud and big data aren’t that new; Google Trends shows that they have passed the peak. Yet Digital Transformation often associated with these components doubles in popularity each year. Before talking about “T” in DT, let’s clarif...
New IBM MobileFirst Platform Supports Native, Web, and Hybrid Apps
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
IBM has announced modular mobile solutions as part of the new IBM MobileFirst Platform to help organizations manage apps and support successful mobile adoption across the enterprise.IBM MobileFirst Platform is a mobile enterprise application platform that helps developers create native, Web, or hybrid apps. Because it’s based on open standards, the MobileFirst Platform ...
MakeMeReach Social Media Advertising Platform to Become Part of GrowMobile
Friday, February 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Perion, which owns the GrowMobile automated mobile marketing platform, has acquired Paris-based MakeMeReach and its social media advertising platform. MakeMeReach will be added to the capabilities of GrowMobile to include the social media space, to help developers scale user acquisition campaigns on a centralized platform.MakeMeReach's AdsOptim platform provides the opp...
Upsight Releases DataMine As Mobile Platforms Continue To Take Off
Monday, December 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
Upsight has released an overhaul of Upsight DataMine. Upsight DataMine is an enterprise-grade business intelligence platform which now runs twice as fast. The platforms is a next-generation cloud data mining solution where enterprise organizations can better understand user behaviors through tapping into 3rd party data or across any channel.The platforms is crucial...
Report Finds You Should Optimize Deeplinks Because Broken Links Keep App Users from Accessing Social Content
Monday, September 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
A recent report by Pure Oxygen Labs shows that despite the continuing increase in app usage - specifically social apps - a large number of mobile consumers fail to open the most popular social apps as a result of broken links. These are links that send the consumer to a login wall on the mobile web instead of inside the destination app where consumers expect to be taken...
Citrix Mobile Analytics Report Shows iOS Mobile Users Consume More Video than Android Users
Friday, September 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
Citrix has released its Mobile Analytics Report for the second half of 2014. The Mobile Analytics Report provides insight into subscriber behavior and related factors that determine quality of experience (QoE) for mobile data services. Key findings from the report include:Mobile Video on LTE Surpasses 3GThe latest report finds that mobile subscribers on LTE networks are...
Interview with Alexander Vashchenko, President of Production at Game Insight
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Alexander Vashchenko is President of Production at Game Insight which has offices in Moscow and San Francisco and consists of 15 development studios spread out across Eastern Europe. While working in the game industry, Alexander has launched a number of financially successful products, such Legend: Legacy of the Dragons and Juggernaut, which garnered mill...
Your Complete Guide to the 2014 Game Developer’s Conference (GDC)
Saturday, March 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
If you plan on attending the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) you better get plenty of sleep this weekend because the event each day is packed from the crack of dawn to late in the night.We thought we’d provide a highlight of what to see and what to do.GDC Store: Monday – Friday , March 17 - 219:00am - 6:00pmSouth Hall, Street LevelBreakPoint Books is the official book...
Game Insight Launches Transport Empire for Mobile Devices and Social Networks
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
Game Insight, a global leader in mobile/social games, has announced the next chapter in business games with Transport Empire, an all-new economic strategy game. The new game will be released first for iPad, and then for iPhone. Android and Facebook versions are also planned for future release. Transport Empire will let players build their very own transportation ne...
Static App For iPhone Helps Organize Your Social Life!
Monday, August 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
The Static app gives you the info you need through a single portal to be able to manage all of your online accounts on one device. Their goal is to build something big over time and allow our users to vote for what they want to see in future updates to the app. It lets them focus on the customer by listening to their feedback.It is a native app and is written in objecti...
IBM Throws Support Behind Cloud Foundry Program
Friday, July 26, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
IBM has announced that it will collaborate with Pivotal, a provider of application and data infrastructure software, development services, and data science consulting, to further develop the Cloud Foundry platform and open source project.
Cloud Foundry is an interoperable Platform-as-a-Service framework that allows companies to choose across cloud infrastructure and a...
Marketing your app using Applorer
Monday, December 17, 2012 by Richard Harris
Applorer is an app discovery tool for the Android market that has almost 100,000 installs, and with a recent update could help developers get some free marketing for their apps.The new update allows users to "recommend" apps they like in their social outlets, and discover apps that their friends are currently playing and recommending. The opportunity exist that one of y...
Up and coming starts in app development
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 by Richard Harris
We developers are highly competitive, comon admit it - you grovel silently when you hear about a 12 year old developer that just created an app with an million installs! There are so many different platforms, monetization strategies, being visible in the market, and more. There are so many challenges to consider it can drive us crazy!There are also many paths into the b...
