Meta ends paid political ads in EU over new rules
Thursday, August 14, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Beginning in October 2025, Meta will cease allowing political, electoral, and social issue advertisements on its platforms within the European Union. This decision comes in response to the incoming Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) regulation, which Meta argues imposes unworkable legal and operational requirements.
The TTPA introduces stringe...
EazyPostcard lets you write to global leaders
Saturday, July 12, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
EazyPostCard, the new French platform for sending digital postcards, has officially launched worldwide. Created by renowned French entrepreneur Mathieu Burthey, this innovative service combines the emotion of physical postcards with the convenience of digital technology.
EazyPostcard lets you write to global leaders: Reinventing the traditional postcard
EazyPostCa...
Payment solution from inDrive
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 by Richard Harris
inDrive has introduced seamless Pix via Open Finance payments for its ride-hailing and delivery services in Brazil. With technology provided by Belvo, the new feature - an innovation in the Brazilian Ride Hailing and Delivery landscapes - brings an integrated, peer to peer, safe and effortless digital payment option into the inDrive app.
The feature marks the co...
Google app fees lawsuit approved by UK court
Friday, June 20, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (‘CAT’) has made an order certifying a £1 billion legal claim against Google on behalf of UK app developers that have allegedly been overcharged by Google for using its Play Store. The case can now proceed to trial, with thousands of businesses poised to receive compensation for the loss in revenue suffered as a result o...
Subscription management arrives with RevenueCat and Paddle
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
RevenueCat and Paddle have launched a new integration to help developers unify subscriptions across web and mobile.
The integration allows users to purchase subscriptions seamlessly across web and mobile. Developers benefit from unified subscription data across platforms, with Paddle managing web-specific payments and the associated tax and compliance comp...
Track installs and user engagement with AWS app reports
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 by Richard Harris
Staying informed about how your app is performing across devices and marketplaces is essential for optimizing your strategy. The latest data on app installs is now available, offering valuable insight into recent trends. With the Acquisition report, you can evaluate how your app is being discovered and installed, especially on Fire TV.
Track installs and user engagem...
Apple's WWDC 2025: Innovation for everyone except app developers
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 by Richard Harris
Apple’s WWDC 2025 keynote was a spectacle of contrasts. On one hand, it dazzled developers with a Liquid Glass design aesthetic and a boatload of polished features across iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and more. They even threw in some whimsical flair, from cheeky Formula 1 references to a piano man crooning App Store reviews on stage. It felt like Apple was serenad...
The Great App Purge Googles Quality Overhaul
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 by Richard Harris
In early 2025, the tech world was rocked by a revelation that caught even seasoned app developers off guard: Google’s Play Store had lost nearly half of its apps in the span of just over a year. What seemed at first to be a quiet pruning of low-value software turned out to be a full-blown purge, 47% of apps had vanished. A platform that once boasted the largest ca...
State of Mobile Experience report from Embrace
Monday, July 31, 2023 by Richard Harris
Embrace released the State of Mobile Experience report detailing mobile end users' and builders' perspectives on performance issues and app experiences. The three-part study combines input from mobile engineers at industry-leading companies and app users and rich data from Embrace's mobile experience engineering platform. The insights reveal how ap...
The rise of microservices with Anypoint Service Mesh
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 by Austin Harris
MuleSoft has announced Anypoint Service Mesh, a new solution that dramatically simplifies how companies can discover, manage and secure microservices. Anypoint Service Mesh brings security and reliability to any microservices-based application, regardless of language or deployment model, freeing developers from custom code. Customers can also now publish and discov...
What Render announced at TechCrunch Disrupt SF's Startup Battlefield
Thursday, October 3, 2019 by Austin Harris
Render announced three major additions to its platform - Disks, Infrastructure as Code in the form of render.yaml and Deploy To Render button - onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Startup Battlefield. Startup Battlefield showcases the most promising early-stage and fundamentally disruptive startups.
When it comes to hosting applications in the cloud, developers ...
Render integrates Market as a Service
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 by Austin Harris
Manifold revealed Render as the first cloud platform to integrate its Marketplace-as-a-Service offering into its streamlined developer experience. Render Addons give developers immediate, pre-integrated access to a variety of third-party cloud services they can use to build great applications.
“We’ve been amazed with how easy Manifold made it to inte...
MongoDB launches new version of core at MongoDB World 2019
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 by Richard Harris
MongoDB, Inc. announced the latest version of its core database at MongoDB World this year, MongoDB 4.2. Key features such as distributed transactions, field level encryption and an updated Kubernetes Operator raise MongoDB’s established reputation for supporting a wide variety of use cases for thousands of customers, which range from innovative cloud-native start...
Realm and serverless platform MongoDB Stitch combine
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 by Austin Harris
MongoDB World 2019 kicked off at the beautiful Hilton Midtown in New York City yesterday. The day was full of technical talks and interactive presentations. The event offers conference-goers the ability to interface with MongoDB experts in free one-on-one consultations and to learn the technology in a hands-on way. They have some big announcements coming out of the conf...
Appodeal rewards Indie developers this holiday season
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
Appodeal is launching a limited-time bonus program exclusive to Indie mobile app developers and small to midsize mobile app publishers. The #TimeToEarn program, which promises an up to $7,000 bonus on top of ad revenue, ends on December 31, 2018.
“As a part of the Indie developer community, too often we see great mobile apps fade away due to the lack of income....
The differences between web apps and native apps
Thursday, October 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Even in 2018, years past the origional question, the debate rages on across the land, in office spaces and conference rooms every day - should we build a full-blown native mobile app, or is distributing over the web good enough?
By now everyone knows the “mobile-first” mentality because statistics like 50% of web searches being done from a mobile dev...
iOS 12 notification changes should make you rethink your messages
Friday, September 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
It feels as if our mobile screens are swimming in notification overload these days, and it’s no wonder why when leading mobile marketing companies plaster billboards in Silicon Valley with promises to engage mobile users.
In a hyper-connected world where consumer attention is scarce, notifications are an incredibly powerful way to reach users wherever they are....
MongoDB World 2018 and everything you need to know
Monday, July 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
At MongoDB World 2018, MongoDB made several major product announcements that the company says is "expanding on their presence in the database market." Nearly every company is focused on using software for a competitive advantage. The company says that with their latest enhancements database platform, "it enables a competitive advantage for thousands of cu...
Get your free developer package from Pusher and SendGrid
Monday, June 4, 2018 by Richard Harris
Pusher released the Pusher Developer Package. This pack is aimed at developers and will offer them free access to 13 key services they need for building great applications. Pusher is joined in this project by great service suppliers like Algolia, Auth0, ButterCMS, Chargebee, Cloudflare, Codeship, DataDog, DigitalOcean, Instabug, MongoDB, Mux.com, Nexmo, and SendGrid.The...
AI and machine learning make app development and marketing smarter
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 by Brian Solis
Build it and they will come. Those were the good ole days. It used to be good enough to design a great app. Add to that an engaging user experience (UX), positive feedback, a high ranking and word of mouth, and your app was ensured continued success. Nowadays however, mobile consumers are simply overwhelmed by choice. Did you know that if you add up all the apps in the ...
A guide for protecting your app with a patent, trademark, or copyright
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 by Bryan Wheelock
Perhaps the only thing harder than taking your idea for a great app from concept to successful reality is watching someone else take your idea for a great app to successful reality. Fortunately, intellectual property law - particularly patent, trademark, and copyright law - provides robust protection for apps, or at least for developers who plan ahead.
Utility Patent...
Building apps for emerging markets
Monday, November 27, 2017 by Neal Thoms
Internet use is ballooning in emerging economies in South America, Africa and Asia (amongst others). These economies are growing fast, and an explosion in smartphones and mobile internet has generated a vast wave of users venturing online for the first time. However, despite this phenomenal growth, it would be unwise to take this technology growth for granted, or to ass...
Developing in AR with Thyng
Monday, November 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
Augmented reality (AR) has gotten a lot of attention of late, with Apple and Google respectively launching ARKit and ARCore to help mobile app developers embrace AR. Well-known brands like Ikea and Strava have deployed ARKit apps, and many app developers are contemplating building AR elements into existing apps or coding new AR apps from scratch.In Chicago, startup Thyn...
FileMaker updates to version 16 and packs a punch
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
FileMaker, Inc. announced the release of the FileMaker 16 Platform, the latest version of its custom app platform. Their platform includes everything needed to create, share, and run custom apps for business teams. This simplifies and accelerates the design and delivery of custom apps for mobile, cloud and on-premises deployments. The FileMaker 16 Platform packs powerfu...
The Orange Pi community gets a snap store
Monday, March 20, 2017 by Austin Harris
Orange Pi maker Shenzhen Xunlong Software is launching an app store in partnership with Canonical to foster an active community of developers and users. Through this app store, developers gain a simple mechanism to share their applications, projects and scripts between themselves and with their wider community. Applications in the store are formatted as snaps, the ...
Improve app resiliency by enhancing the data tier
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Businesses run on apps, and apps run on data. Modern databases offer the potential for much greater application uptime and performance. The fundamental attribute of modern databases is the ability to scale out capacity - organizations can leverage multiple copies of the same data so they can serve more customers demanding access to that data. Modern databases also bring...
Why continuous delivery is key for developer career success
Monday, January 30, 2017 by Martin van Vliet
When people talk about Continuous Delivery, it’s usually in the context of how it improves the software delivery process and contributes to generating business revenue. Both are true and valid points, but they don’t directly address the opportunities for career growth Continuous Delivery offers for developers. But keep in mind that Continuous Delivery is not a flash in ...
Mobile App Greatness: It Matters
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 by Joe Schulz
Mobile user expectations are an interesting thing. We all hear that they are through the roof, and that users expect app behaviors and responses to occur in near-nanoseconds. What most of us don’t hear is that the features and functions that matter to users do not necessarily align with what developers are giving them - or what developers think they want.As a result, ev...
Are Your Mobile Apps Ready for 2016
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 by Phil Buckellew
Mobile devices became the shopper’s device of choice for browsing and buying this holiday season, with mobile accounting for 57.2 percent of all online traffic and 36.2 percent of all online sales – respective increases of 15.2 and 30 percent over 2014, according to IBM Watson Trend. With another holiday shopping season behind us and companies working hard to ...
Aerospike NoSQL Database Adds New Functionality for WebScale Applications
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Aerospike has released the latest version of its NoSQL database offering new features that provide more personalized applications, more efficiency and greater stability across public and private clouds. The Aerospike platform is a distributed NoSQL database and key-value store architected for web-scale applications. It provides a high-performance database that can ...
Enterprise Apps Can't Just Be Good, They Have to Be Great
Friday, November 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
One of the consequences to the App Economy is the fact that, as more and more companies pour dollars into their mobile app presence, the overall quality of apps is vastly improving. While this is no doubt a great thing for app users, for companies publishing apps, the situation could be creating a challenge that can put them at a severe disadvantage. Companies are ...
The Recipe for the Perfect Push Message
Saturday, February 21, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
I’ve got a buddy who is convinced that he wants to open up a New Orlean’s style Creole restaurant (he’s never owned a restaurant). He does cook well (at home) and he is certain that he has perfected his various recipes for culinary success. I tried to point out that 60% of restaurants fail in the first year, but he is undeterred. I wish him luck but am not optimistic.&n...
Communicate to Your Mobile Users Relevantly: Use Personalization App Marketing Methods and See Your Bottom Line Grow
Friday, January 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
We all know that it is hard to get new users to try out an app. Most people have around 25 apps on their phones (depending on the information source, it is a little higher or lower, but that is a safe number to work with). It cost money, time, and more to convince someone to add your specific app to their group of apps on their device, and having done that, you need to ...
App Developers Who Personalize Their Mobile Apps See User Engagement Soar
Monday, December 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
People use mobile apps. It’s hard to keep that in mind sometimes when developing an app, because we can lose track of users as we concentrate on the specific purpose of the app. The reality is that the primary reason for any app to exist is for it to be used. And, individually, it will be used more often if that person accessing the app feels that it fits them and their...
Secrets for Android Developers on Launching Apps on Google Play
Sunday, November 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
The numbers are hard to ignore - 50 billion apps and games downloaded and $5 billion over the last year to developers. So what is the secret to success launching apps on Google Play? I don’t imagine Google is giving away insider company secrets, however they have put together a new publication called “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play.” They are promoting t...
