The mobile app market is still growing to hit 571 billion by 2030
Monday, October 16, 2023 by Richard Harris
The increasing status of other mobile devices and smartphones, the rising demand for mobile apps in various industries, such as healthcare, gaming, education, and retail, the growing adoption of mobile payment and other mobile commerce solutions, the increasing use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in mobile apps. The mobile app market is also expected to ...
African gaming market continues to grow driven by mobile game revenues
Friday, July 21, 2023 by Richard Harris
New data released from Newzoo and Carry1st reveals that the African gaming market is set for continued growth, driven by increased mobile gaming revenues.
According to this latest report commissioned by African company Carry1st, the Sub-Saharan Africa gaming market is projected to reach over $1 billion by 2024 and will continue to grow in the following year by a...
Airnow acquires Madrid based Lab Cave
Monday, January 17, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
UK mobile app management company, Airnow, has acquired mobile growth services provider, Lab Cave, which specializes in portfolio management, App Store optimization, and launches for the global mobile gaming industry.
This deal is the latest in a line of high-profile acquisitions by the expanding British firm, which acquired MightySignal in July 2021, along with Prior...
Huawei and Bitrise partner to enable App Developers
Friday, November 5, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Bitrise, the Mobile DevOps company that organizations use to get mobile apps to market faster, has announced its work with Huawei. The global smart device provider has tapped Bitrise as part of its mission to attract the world’s best mobile apps into its 530M+ user AppGallery, in turn enabling app creators to more easily enter the restrictive Chinese market.
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The evolution of Cloud Firebase
Thursday, October 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
These days, if you're developing a mobile or web app, there's a good chance you'll need to sync your data to the cloud. Maybe that's because your users want to share data with their friends for some exciting in-app collaboration, or maybe they simply want to access their data from more than one device.But syncing data between all those devices and the cloud isn't quite ...
Analysis reveals app push notifications increase spending by 16 percent
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 by Richard Harris
Leanplum, has announced a new Mobile Marketing Trends report, “In-App Purchases Now: Insights to Driving Mobile Revenue,” which uncovers key drivers for increasing in-app purchases. Previous Leanplum data identified that 90% of mobile shopping carts are abandoned without completing a purchase. Leanplum’s latest report, based on data captured by Leanplum from more than 5...
Accellion and PacketZoom form a development partnership
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 by Austin Harris
As enterprise content continues to increase in size, spurred in part by the emergence of richer content types including high resolution images and video, a growing mobile workforce will place demands on file sharing applications to deliver content quickly. Documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, videos and other file formats can range from several megabytes to g...
How animated GIFs have evolved into a messaging staple after 30 years
Monday, May 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
As short mobile messages come to dominate our daily communications - with friends, family and coworkers - many find it increasingly difficult to effectively get their point across. Typing everything out is annoying. Emojis no longer cut it. And the tone often gets lost. Tenor is creating a new visual language that solves this problem, empowering people to express their ...
Cross channel game advertising and the holistic approach
Thursday, December 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Surprisingly for a mobile-centric world and an industry dominated by mobile games, game marketers are still spending a hefty amount of marketing dollars on television ads. TV isn’t dead yet, but ‘cord-cutting’ is a phenomenon among the millennial generation that can’t be denied. For those still tuned in to TV programming, their attention is increasingly divided bet...
Flurry's Insights on the "7 year itch" and What it Means to Developers
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Chris Klotzbach, Director Flurry from Yahoo, reached out to us to talk about the affect of “seven year itch” on the mobile industry, focusing on how Flurry has seen mobile growth plateau over the last 7 years.ADM: At your Mobile Developer Conference in February, Flurry shared that mobile growth is plateauing. Can you elaborate on that more?Klotzbach: In 2015, overall ap...
Predictions for the World of Gaming in 2016
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 by Nikola Cavic
To understand the top opportunities for mobile gaming for 2016, we turned to Nikola Čavić, Head of Business Development at Nordeus, an award-winning European games and technology company and publisher of Top Eleven, one of the most popular social sports video game in the world. Here are his predictions for 2016.Google’s return to China will see potential opportunity for...
Latin America and Asia Pacific Are Leading Growth Markets for Mobile Advertising
Monday, November 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
According to a recent report, emerging markets in Latin America and Asia Pacific continue to offer high growth mobile advertising opportunities but the traditional powerhouses of the United States, India, United Kingdom, Russia and Germany are still dominating ad dollars.The data comes from Smaato’s Q3 2015 Global Trends in Mobile Programmatic Report which analyzed data...
Ship.io Updates To Android L (Lollipop) And Xcode 6.1.1 Development Platforms SaaS
Saturday, December 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Electric Cloud, a San Jose based company for enterprise Continuous Delivery, has released new updates to Ship.io, officially in beta, for mobile continuous integration on Android L and Xcode 6.1.1 latest versions. The free SaaS development platforms can be used by up to thousands of mobile app developers across the world.The updates include auto detection and configurat...
Millennial Media Grows Mobile Ad Real Time Bidding (RTB) Offerings with Acquisition of Nexage
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Millennial Media has announced is acquiring Nexage. Based in Boston, privately held Nexage is a provider of Real-Time-Bidding (RTB) technology for mobile ads. Millennial Media says that Nexage will bolster the company’s services in three areas.Increasing yield for developers via expertise and scaleNexage’s offerings will complement Millennial Media’s demand from ag...
Tablets generating more web traffic than ever before
Sunday, August 31, 2014 by Richard Harris
With the launch of the first iPad back in April 2010, the mobile market welcomed one of its major traffic drivers, a tablet computer. At that time it had only been 3 years since the first device capable of generating mobile traffic was introduced, the iPhone. The iPhone was launched in the summer of 2007 when the mobile device traffic was not even close to the...
Perion To Purchase Grow Mobile to Grow its Lightspeed Mobile Advertising Platform
Monday, June 30, 2014 by Richard Harris
Perion Network is snapping up Grow Mobile, a provider of mobile advertising that enables developers to buy, track, optimize, and scale user acquisition campaigns from a single dashboard. Grow Mobile will become part of Perion Lightspeed, which was recently created by Perion to address the advertising needs of mobile app developers, and will enable Perion Lightspeed...
Nektan Offers White Label Mobile Casino Gaming Platform
Monday, May 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Nektan, a mobile casino games company, is making available its proprietary white label mobile casino platform operating under its Gibraltar Gambling License. Nektan develops, licenses and operates Real Money Gaming (RMG) and Freemium Gaming in global regulated markets.Nektan’s mobile gaming platform has the ability to act standalone or to integrate into existi...
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...
Facebook and WhatsApp: Its All About Going Mobile
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 by Elad Natanson
Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp means a lot of things to a lot of people, but to me personally, it showed the importance of going mobile.Though people have been calling every year ‘the year of mobile’ since WAP in the late 1990s, that this largest ever Internet acquisition happened to a mobile app speaks volumes of the state of mobile today.Highlighted by...
Android Market Too Big to Ignore so Nokia Debuts Nokia X Android Platform
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft might own Nokia, but Android rules for mobile apps (sorry Apple) and thus Nokia has debuted new smartphones running the Nokia X software platform based on the Android Open Source Project.Nokia’s recent announcement included a number of new details, which made it somewhat confusing unless you paid close attention, which we did. The Android OS is obvio...
Facebook Autoplay Video Ads Help Mobile Advertising Audience Double in First Quarter 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mobile advertising continues to heat up and to help understand the mobile ad market, Citrix has released its Citrix Mobile Analytics Report for the first quarter of 2014. The report provides insight into subscriber behavior and related factors that determine quality of experience for mobile data services.
Citrix has discovered that mobile advertisements now...
Get Downloads For Your Apps Through Television Using ActivateTV
Saturday, February 1, 2014 by Richard Harris
Motility Ads Launches ActivateTV, Connecting Marketers and Consumers Through the Screens that Matter MostDirect download technology drives user acquisition with global reach, efficiency and attributionMotility Ads, the all-in-one solution for creating a complete and engaging mobile ad experience, today announced ActivateTV, a new turnkey advertising solution that harnes...
Opera Mobile Store Passes 100 Million User Mark
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
Cross-platform mobile app store now offers 200,000 appsThe Opera Mobile Store, the fifth-largest mobile app store in the world, today announced that it has reached a new milestone of 105 million monthly visitors at the end of Q4 2013. As the world's largest cross-platform app store, the Opera Mobile Store saw exponential growth in its user base over the 12 last mon...
Chupamobile Launches a $45,000 prize App Developing Competition
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 by Richard Harris
The 2013 Chupamobile App Developer Competition begins today and will finish on January 28th.
In our September issue, we talked about Chupamobile: a marketplace where developers can buy and sell iOS and Android apps source code. And to celebrate the growing mobile developer community, Chupamobile is launching a competition.
What about? Chu...
Appboy Now Supports Unity
Friday, November 15, 2013 by Richard Harris
Appboy, the leading platform for mobile relationship management (MRM), today launches its support for Unity, the red-hot gaming platform. Unity boasts over 2M developers who use its software to "author once, deploy everywhere" on multiple operating systems. Appboy's integration brings its user lifecycle management and marketing automation products directly to the mobile...
Opera Mobile Store triples the number of apps, monthly visitors grow 63 percent
Thursday, October 24, 2013 by Richard Harris
Cross-platform mobile app store now serves 140,000 apps to 75M monthly visitors San Mateo, Calif. - October 24, 2013 - The Opera Mobile Store, the fifth-largest mobile app store in the world, today announced that it has tripled the size of the store in the last 12 months, currently offering more than 140,000 apps. The Opera Mobile Store provides more than 75 million mon...
Grow Mobile, a New Marketplace To Get Users
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
Zynga's former head of mobile marketing A.J. Yeakel, Storm8's former head of business development Brendan Lyall and Ming-Lei Xu, who sold Wild Needle to Zynga, have just launched a new tool to let developers market their apps by engaguging in ad exchanges, buying ad space, and more. It's called Grow Mobile, and it is a dashboard that incorporates about 75 diff...
Android is gaining on Apple for dev revenue earnings
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Richard Harris
SAN FRANCISCO -- The mobile video game Kingdoms at War is popular with owners of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and Google's (GOOG) Android smartphones alike. But for the game's maker, there is a very important difference -- it earns more than double the money on iPhones and iPads than it does on Android devices.The disparity is a weakness for Android, which ...
