Kong Inc unveils private beta of Kong Konnect
Friday, October 9, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Kong Inc. unveiled the private beta release of Kong Konnect, a full-stack platform for cloud native applications delivered as a service. Running on any cloud or platform, Kong Konnect provides end users with instant access to a comprehensive suite of tools that enable reliable and secure service connectivity across their APIs and microservices. It helps developers, arch...
Ray 1.0 announced from Anyscale
Thursday, October 1, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Anyscale announced Ray 1.0, the latest version of the Ray open source project. Ray 1.0, which provides a universal serverless compute API and an expanded ecosystem of libraries, was shared with attendees at the first annual Ray Summit, along with the announcement of the private beta of Anyscale’s managed Ray platform.
With Ray 1.0, developers can build scalable...
Bottr.me aims to simplify the way we work with personal AI bots
Thursday, July 13, 2017 by Austin Harris
Bottr.me, a chat bot creation tool, has received backing from 500 Startups, Purvi Capital, Google MD Rajan Anandan and Abhishek Gupta from TLabs. Launched in private beta earlier this year as a way to create one’s very own smart AI based virtual avatar, this startup wants to fundamentally change the way we create and consume information and services online. B...
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. ...
PlanGrid for Windows is out of beta
Monday, February 6, 2017 by Rebeca Ayala
PlanGrid, developer of construction software for the field, is used by tens of thousands of contractors, designers, owners, and architects to finish their projects on time and under budget. Lightning fast, easy to use, and loaded with shortcuts, it delivers thousands of plans right to users’ fingertips - helping field teams edit, share, and manage blueprints, spec...
The frontiers of messaging and chatbots
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Eloise Bune
The appetite for chat can’t be satiated. Facebook recently announced 1 billion users on Messenger and WeChat continues to dominate the app universe in China. Messaging apps are forecast to hit 2 billion users by 2018. Way back in 2015, the monthly active users of the top 4 messaging apps overtook the top 4 social media apps, leading many to believe chat is the new socia...
FishVerify app can help fishermen instantly identify their catch
Thursday, December 22, 2016 by Austin Harris
When a fisherman feels a tug on the line, he never knows what he might reel in. Sometimes identifying a fish species can be difficult, and without that knowledge it is impossible to determine whether or not it is in season or within the size and catch limit. Now there's an iOS app, FishVerify, to help fishermen instantly identify their catch and learn local fishing regu...
New Relic Now Offers Browser Monitoring for SPAs
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
New Relic has announced updates to its New Relic Browser providing new support for web applications built with single-page application (SPA) frameworks and libraries. When combined with New Relic APM, the browser monitoring for SPAs will allow users to have end-to-end visibility of their application’s performance, from the front-end to the services it is running on.New ...
Pyze Mobile App Analytics Business Intelligence Emerges from Stealth
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Dickey Singh, co-founder and CEO of Pyze which recently emerged from stealth to introduce Pyze Growth Intelligence, a business intelligence platform for mobile app publishers. The platform provides publishers with a “Data Scientist in a Box” to maximize app growth and personalize engagement.ADM: Pyze just emerged from stealth with a new business...
Reducing the Creative Lag Bottleneck Problem for App Updates
Thursday, March 10, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We visited with Shahar Kaminitz, CEO and founder of Insert, to discuss the problem of “creative lag” – the time it takes app developers to get an idea to get from whiteboard to a consumer’s device and the subsequent delays associated with development, test cycles and app store approval processes. Kaminitz has recently brought out of stealth mode the Insert mobile engage...
UserCare Launches Beta of Mobile App Customer Service Platform
Monday, November 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
UserCare has launched a private beta of its mobile customer service platform to help app publishers leverage first-party data to create value-based customer segments and deliver differentiated services to high-value users. UserCare is a SaaS service for mobile applications that uses in-app messaging and user segmentation tools to help app developers give their highest v...
Localytics Introduces New Predictive App Marketing Platform
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Localytics is continuing to expand its app marketing and analytics platform with the introduction of new predictive app marketing tools. The company has also announced additional investor funding to underwrite its ability to grow and expand its platform. Localytics continues to scale, now supporting 32,000 apps across 2.3 billion devices for customers including HBO...
New Relic Insight’s Platform to Provide Real Time Data for Mobile Apps
Friday, March 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
New Relic is extending its Insights’ platform capabilities beyond analyzing data from backend applications that run in a data center or in the cloud to now include real-time data generated by the mobile apps running on smartphones. The new functionality is currently in private beta.In addition to using data from the New Relic APM, New Relic Insights will be able to help...
Next TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield Slated for May 5 7 in NYC
Thursday, February 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
Startup Battlefield is TechCrunch’s premiere startup launch competition and the next one will be held at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, May 5-7. The companies selected to compete will pitch on-stage in front of some of the biggest names in tech and compete for a $50,000 prize.Last year, judges included partners from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Founder Collective and SV Angel. Co...
Progress Releases Updates to Telerik App Development Platform
Friday, January 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Progress has released the latest version of Telerik, its device and OS agnostic mobile development platform that combine UI tools and cloud services to build apps. This comes on the heels of the Progress’s announcement that it had finalized the purchase of Telerik AD in December 2014.The Telerik Platform offers tools and services that can be adopted individually or as a...
Developers Can Now Improve an Apps Connectivity Through Public Beta of Kwicr Platform
Monday, January 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
I was chatting with the team at Kwicr this morning at the Appnation conference and they let me know their platform is now in public beta. We reported earlier this year about the launch of the private beta of the company’s mobile delivery network.In a nutshell, the Kwicr platform helps publishers provide faster download speeds, higher quality media playback and analytics...
Deeplink Invites App Developers to Participate in Private Beta of Deeplink Marketplace
Monday, October 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Deeplink has announced the private beta of its The Deeplink Marketplace, a functional deep link marketplace (with API, SDK and other tools) to find deep links based on specific functions, enabling apps to serve content and deep links for other apps on a users’ phone. Mobile developers can use the Deeplink Marketplace for app marketing, app monetization as well as t...
Leanplum Adds Mobile Messaging for iOS to its A|B Testing, Marketing Automation and Analytics Platform
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Leanplum has announced that it is adding a new mobile messaging feature that provides developers the ability to create, automate and test targeted in-app messages and push notifications to users. The Leanplum offers an integrated optimization platform for mobile apps. The company allows developers, product managers and marketers to utilize customer data b...
Genuitec Takes GapDebug Tool for PhoneGap and Apache Cordova into Public Beta
Thursday, July 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
After a couple of weeks of private beta, Genuitec is taking its GapDebug tool for PhoneGap and Apache Cordova into public beta.GapDebug provides the ability to “plug and debug” mobile apps. It is a single source platform to perform cross-platform testing on iOS and Android mobile apps. GapDebug eliminates the need to bounce back and forth between iOS...
WiMi5 HTML5 Gaming App Development Platform Launches Public Beta
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
WiMi5 is a cloud based platform to create, publish and monetize HTML5 casual games. The company has been in private beta and is now in public beta.The company seeks to become the next iOS and Android marketplace by using HTML5. Users of the platform will be able to create casual games, launch them in WiMi5’s in-house app marketplace and monetize through a F2P share...
Google IO Announcements Include New Developer Services to Build and Optimize
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Among other things announced today at Google I/O , is the introduction of new services to help developers build and optimize data pipelines, create mobile applications, and debug, trace, and monitor their cloud applications in production. These include:Google Cloud DataflowCloud Dataflow is a fully managed service for creating data pipelines that ingest, transform and a...
Twinsprite Brings Physical Toys and Other Objects to the Digital Mobile World
Friday, June 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Twinsprite Platform, currently under private beta, provides developers with the ability to manage the identity and attributes of physical objects so that they can be used as active elements inside a game. For examples, these objects could be toys, action figures or trading cards.Although the platform primarily targets products like toys, basically any physical objec...
Saleforce Introduces Imbedded SOS button for Mobile Apps
Friday, April 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Salesforce has launched Salesforce1 Service Cloud SOS, a new service that provides the ability to put imbed an SOS button, similar to the Amazon Kindle Mayday button, directly inside any mobile app. Currently, for many mobile users who need assistance, they must exit an app or wait until they get to back to a desktop to find help. With Service Cloud SOS, compa...
Twitter Finally Opening MoPub Marketplace to Drive App Installs and Engagements
Friday, April 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Twitter has made it official on a blog post: It is flexing the muscles of its MoPub ad exchange to leverage its Twitter Publisher Network to allow developers to set up campaigns directly on ads.twitter.com.According to the post, the MoPub Marketplace reaches more than 1 billion unique devices and handles more than 130 billion ad requests inside Android and iOS applicati...
Appurify Launches Public Beta of Mobile Test Automation Platform
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
Company announces product collaborations with Sencha and Adobe PhoneGap, releases free SDK for mobile developers to streamline test creation and debuggingSAN FRANCISCO—September 25, 2013—Appurify, the pioneer in mobile test automation on real devices, today announced the public beta of its platform for testing, run-time debugging and performance optimization of mobile a...
PlayHaven Unveils Push Notifications for Mobile Game Developers
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 by Richard Harris
PlayHaven, the business engine for mobile games, today introduced the private beta launch of PlayHaven Push Notifications, a messaging solution designed to capture player attention and boost in-game engagement, loyalty and revenue. Adding Push Notifications to PlayHaven's suite of tools to manage player acquisition, engagement and monetization allows games developers to...
A New Way to Develop PhoneGap Apps
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 by Richard Harris
The folks over at AppGyver have released a new product that lets you build apps based on the popular PhoneGap library without needing to do alot of heavy lifting in the code. It's called "Steriods". It's a fresh approach to an age-old problem, how to create an app that has a unique feature set without having to learn to program every line of code, Steriods lets you do t...
App Annie Introduces Hourly Rankings, Parent Publishers, and more
Friday, March 1, 2013 by Richard Harris
How many times do you as a developer check your revenue or ranking during the day? Unfortunately the ranking reports are always at least a day delayed - until now.App Annie, the mobile app analytics and reporting website has introduced hourly rankings which gives you the ability to see your apps ranking every hour - which will be essential for SEO and marketing in gener...
Rebtel Voice platform for iOS and Android
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 by Richard Harris
Rebtel has announced a new way for mobile developers to add voice functionality to their apps with supposedly very little effort. Their new SDK is set to launch in a private beta on Tuesday.The service is free for now but Rebtel says that large volume users could see some sort of pricing structure as they continue to grow.This could come in real handy for deve...
