NFT smart contract that pays NFT artists securely
Friday, February 25, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Ethereum co-founder, Joseph Lubin’s blockchain incubator, ConsenSys Mesh has announced the NFT platform TreeTrunk.io at the celebrated ETH Denver developer conference. Launching in a beta release on the Polygon Mumbai testnet, TreeTrunk has introduced a new smart contract that, for the first time in the Ethereum ecosystem, collects and distributes royalty payments...
SaaS company receives $27M in funding
Monday, November 15, 2021 by Christian Hargrave
Swimm announced a $27.6 million Series A funding round to enable engineering teams to create documentation that is always up to date. The round, which brings Swimm's total funding to $33.3 million, was led by New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, with participation from Dawn Capital, alongside existing seed investors Pitango...
Build vs buying mobile app code
Saturday, December 28, 2019 by Robert Castles
In the business world, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the end customer is still a human being. Consumer technology has spoiled us, in a good way, and now users are demanding the same level of customer experience and problem-solving from business applications as they get from the technologies ubiquitous in their day-to-day personal lives. This leaves companies ...
Software modernization myths likely holding you back
Thursday, November 1, 2018 by Vijay Pullur
As new cloud, AI, and mobile technologies continue to shape the tech landscape, it’s increasingly challenging for developers and IT leaders to maintain up-to-date applications in the face of nonstop innovation. It’s no wonder that many industry professionals are concerned about their ability to effectively and affordably complete an application modernization...
Tidelift surpasses $1M to pay open source software maintainers
Friday, September 21, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Tidelift announced that it has surpassed one million dollars committed via its platform to pay open source software maintainers to provide professional assurances for their projects, as momentum behind this new approach to professional open source continues to build. Over 100 packages are already on the Tidelift platform, with maintainers getting paid to provide support...
Creating an app on Blockchain technology using JavaScript
Thursday, February 15, 2018 by Richard Harris
As Blockchain technology comes into its own, it is becoming increasingly important for software developers and programmers to acquaint themselves with the benefits which blockchain can provide the architects and users of digital platforms and applications.Lisk is an application platform whose Software Development Kit allows users to code in JavaScript to build Blockchai...
How Cryptocurrencies can change business
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are going to change the economic landscape in ways that we cannot begin to understand. Those who treat tokens like stocks - buying and selling for speculative profit - do not represent even a portion of the real potential value. Industry-specific cryptocurrencies like Dentacoin create a new value paradigm that blends an old business ...
This blockchain smart speaker pays musicians when you clap
Thursday, January 11, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Today, the Musicoin Project and ROCKI announce the development of Volareo, the world’s first “smart” speaker powered by blockchain technology. Volareo allows users to listen to a lifetime of free music while providing instant compensation to musicians.Harnessing the Musicoin blockchain, the Volareo smart speaker honors creativity with royalties that make today’s popular...
Making a mobile game that sticks this season
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 by Nelson Rodriguez
‘Tis the season to be gaming. With dozens of new titles expected to hit the shelves, app stores and console and PC marketplaces this holiday season, it’s critical that developers level up their strategies for a successful game launch to earn a hefty slice of this year’s holiday gaming sales pie.After building a terrific game, a successful holiday launch hinges on provid...
VR advertising SDK is now available for developers
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 by Richard Harris
Vertebrae, the native advertising platform for VR and mobile AR, has released from private beta version 1.0 of its software development kit (SDK). The drag-and-drop SDK allows VR developers to unlock numerous monetization options, affording an expansive mix of immersive ways publishers and brands can advertise natively in VR without disrupting people’s experience. ...
Using virtual currency in your game requires compliancy too
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Kimberly Culp
So you’re an app developer. Maybe even a mobile, computer, or console game developer. You’ve got a great idea for a new game - an immersive experience where users will interact in a fully realized world, complete with its own economy and virtual currency. Other developers could even create content for users, get paid in virtual currency, and then cash it bac...
Just what is the DroneDeploy app market
Monday, November 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
PwC has predicted the global market for commercial drone technology to reach as much as $127 billion by 2020, and the FAA believes at least 543,000 drones will be in civilian hands by 2020. Developers will play a critical role in helping business adopt drones on every job site - whether it’s to monitor construction sites, improve farming methods, verify insurance claims...
5 app monetization strategies to remember in 2016
Monday, October 31, 2016 by Dickey Singh
Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, deep learning and user interfaces, our mobile devices are more accessible and user-friendly than ever before. People are downloading more apps and spending more time in those apps. There are now over four million apps in the Apple and Google app stores – Apple received 75,000-80,000 app submissions per month in last few mon...
New research shows that using advanced security drives new business growth
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
A global study from CA Technologies revealed that organizations are measuring the success of IT security beyond just breaches and compliance; they now are including business performance indicators that contribute directly to revenue growth. The study, The Security Imperative: Driving Business Growth in the App Economy, polled 1,770 senior business and IT executives, inc...
IBM: Humanizing Digital Conversations
Friday, October 7, 2016 by Rama Akkiraju
In the Watson Cognitive services portfolio, there are services such as Personality Insights, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Analysis, Tone Analyzer and Intent Detector (called Natural Language Classifier). These services enable the inference of one’s personality traits, sentiments, emotions, communication tones and the intents expressed by people in their writing respectiv...
Mobeewave Tells Us About the Challenges With Mobile Wallets
Monday, September 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
Mobeewave is a Montreal-based FinTech company that has developed a patented technology that will enable banks around the world to capitalize on the market for cash-in-hand transactions. Their game-changing payment acceptance platform facilitates in-person, proximity mobile payments and is available as a white label platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology for the banking...
LinkedIn Makes Rocket Data Open Source So You Can Cache Data in Your iOS Apps Too
Thursday, August 4, 2016 by Peter Livesey
Last year, LinkedIn began rewriting the LinkedIn flagship mobile application. The existing app had a number of challenges and hadn’t received a significant overhaul in some time. So we wanted the new version to not only look and feel updated, but also to have powerful infrastructure backend to support it.As a part of that effort, we wanted a caching system that would pr...
Adcolony Studies the Impact of Advertising Creative on AppInstall Campaigns
Friday, June 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Adcolony conducted a recent study into the impact of advertising creative on app-install campaigns. The company indexed over 11,000 ad creatives for more than 2,500 apps, tagging each with the specific creative elements featured within, from use of voiceover or other sound effects to text callouts and live action. Over 10 billion mobile video ad impressions were analyze...
Developers See Significantly Higher Salaries Based On Advanced Experience
Thursday, May 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
As a developer, it definitely pays to have experience. According to analysis provided by Payscale, experienced software developers see significantly higher salaries. In demonstrating how experience affects salaries, Payscale provides the following based on the career path for developers: Late-Career - 39% above averageExperienced - 29% above averageMid-Career...
SOOMLA Report Reveals Insight Into Mobile Gaming Monetization
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 by Gur Dotan
Approximately a month ago, App Developer Magazine published an article following a Flurry report on the growth of app usage. It showed some interesting stats, including a staggering fact that app usage grew 58% in the last year alone, while time spent on phablets grew 334% year-on-year, proving to be the dominant form factor.What was left out of that report was the Game...
How PHP 7 Fits into SaaS App Development Goals
Saturday, February 27, 2016 by Dan Kuebrich
PHP 7 introduces significant performance improvements that will save you infrastructure dollars and improve your users’ wait time, but it also comes with some breaking changes on a range from obvious to subtle. Given the tradeoffs, how should you prioritize a stack update? While PHP 7 promises incredible speed improvements, the best path to optimizing app per...
Using Continuous Intelligence for Real Time Machine Data Analytics
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
The sophistication of business analytics continues to grow exponentially as companies introduce more robust and advanced analytics solutions. One such company is Sumo Logic, which offers a SaaS-based log analytics platform which analyzes terabytes of data in real-time.We visited with Christian Beedgen, Sumo Logic’s CTO, to learn about his company’s “Continuous Intellige...
Amazon Paying Android Developers on Per Minute User Basis
Friday, August 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon has launched the Amazon Underground which offers a new monetization model for developers, paying them on a per-minute-played basis in exchange for the developer waiving normal download or in-app fees. The pitch is the opportunity for a publisher to have guaranteed revenue for every Android user. Any developer can submit their app to be included in the progra...
Appirio Launches AppXpress iOS Mobile App Developer Crowdsourcing Platform
Thursday, May 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Appirio has launched AppXpress, a new marketplace for businesses to build iOS apps using a global crowdsourcing community of 750,000 plus app developers, designers and UI/UX experts. Appirio created the iOS-focused AppXpress marketplace to give companies of any size a way to tap into the specialized talent. AppXpress serves as a self-service solution that walks a c...
Top 10 Hacks To Move SaaS Customers From Free Usage To a Paid Subscription
Friday, February 20, 2015 by Dr Anil Kaul
A perennial problem faced by SaaS companies is the difficulty in converting free users to paid customers. This problem is compounded by free alternatives, often of varying quality. A business must be tactful in what it says and what it offers, analyzing customer behavior, preferences and how they navigate their website. The best strategy to increase the number of p...
Hired.com Reinvents the Recruiting Process for Software Developers and DevOps Engineers
Thursday, February 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
It sounds like a simple idea - matching top developer talent with top companies - curating both sides so that each is assured that they are getting exactly the match they are looking for. And it’s interesting that no-one has come up with an approach in the way that Hired.com has done. So what is unique about their platform? Before discussing how Hired.com matches c...
Good Technology Delivers World’s First Secure Mobility Solution With Data
Monday, January 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
For enterprises wanting to separate their personal cellular data and business usage on the same device, businesses can get enabled with Good Work with Data and also develop policies in which they are paid directly for approved mobile app use. If enterprises would like to support BYOD initiatives further, direct payment policies are a way to benefit independently of a ca...
How Next Generation Technology is Going to Drive Future Mobile Enterprise Initiatives
Thursday, January 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
If there is one truth out there for the mobile enterprise, it is that there is no one real truth out there. The rate of growth and transformation associated with the smart technology ecosystem is simply growing too fast for companies to keep up with. The advice a specific approach to preparing for changes that will happen tomorrow differs profoundly based on who yo...
Machine Zone Spends $40 Million to Market Game of War and It Pays Off
Friday, December 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
The 2014 US App Store/Google Play marketplace review took a look at the times spent at #1. The charts listed reviews of both the Top Grossing charts and which titles received the top spots for over 90 percent of this year. The 2014 US App Store/Google Play marketplace review revealed that "Clash of Clans" held the top spot for over 90% of 2014 ...
A Fast App is a Successful App: Tips for Developing Enterprise Mobile Apps that Don’t Leave Employees Waiting
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 by Mark Kirstein
When we listen to the criteria enterprise users take into account when judging the quality of the mobile apps they use, we hear two more often than others: app speed and app responsiveness. Nowadays no one likes to wait (or, perhaps more accurately, nowadays we don’t tolerate waiting). When users see the message “waiting for download” pumping the brakes on their product...
Home Hunting, App Edition: How to Effectively Launch Your Localized App
Friday, September 5, 2014 by Dawni Jacobs
In the previous installment of this series, your "baby" (localized app) was shepherded onto the path to success by passing through the right quality assurance process. It now looks good to the folks in its new locale, it speaks the right language, and it functions like a native (in fact, it is a native) app. All it needs now is to find a new home - ideally many, ma...
AT&T to Give Away Over $100,000 in Two Days at the AT&T Hackathon @ Super Mobility Week Code for Car and Home
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
AT&T is going to give away $100,000 during a 24-hour Hackathon as part of Super Mobility Week in Las Vegas. The Hackathon, app presentations, and judging will take place on September 6-7, and the finalist judging, awards & VIP Party will be held on September 8. There is no charge to compete, however developers are encouraged to sign up prior to the hackatho...
New Startup Pollen to Offer App Developers Advance Funding for App store Receivables
Thursday, May 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Pollen is a new company that is offering app developers advance payments for app store receivables. The company calls the funding opportunity “Velocity Capital” and plans on offering $150 million to developers in 2014. The company is currently offering the funding opportunity in closed beta.Pollen provides funding by advancing the value of a publishers app store re...
Mobile Posse Launches Home Screen Push Messaging Solution That Pays App Publishers Through Revenue Share Model
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Mobile Posse has announced the launch of two new home and lock screen push messaging solutions - AppEnvoy Rewards and AppEnvoy Custom. The new products were launched at APPNATION's 4th annual Cross- Platform Summit in NYC. AppEnvoy Rewards enables app publishers to engage their consumers on the home and lock screen without fees - instead they earn payment...
Apigee Updates Insights Big Data Predictive Analytics Platform
Thursday, May 1, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Apigee has announced a new version of Insights, the company’s big data predictive analytics platform that enables enterprises to deliver API-powered predictive apps that individualize each interaction by applying real-time predictive analytics using fine grained customer, product interaction, and machine data.Insights is optimized to work with fine-grained, unstruc...
