National Geographic just updated their app
Monday, January 14, 2019 by Richard Harris
National Geographic just launched a new mobile app that is available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store to customers in the U.S. and Canada. Compatible with both Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, the app provides users with a personalized digital experience that includes access to the National Geographic magazine archives, an immense photo library, digi...
Grom acquires Bonnie Boat and Friends
Thursday, May 31, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Grom Social Enterprises announced that it had acquired the preschool entertainment and consumer products brand “Bonnie Boat & Friends.” Grom will work closely with Top Draw Animation, for enhancements in the production of the Bonnie Boat & Friends animated series. The brand will also appear in the Company’s centerpiece Grom Social website as an ecology education...
The Challenges Of Monetizing In App Mobile Ads
Monday, June 6, 2016 by Jeff Kim
It’s a mobile app world and we just live in it. The average U.S. adult spends nearly three hours a day on their mobile device (excluding voice activities), which is more time than they spend watching TV. A vast majority of this time is spent in apps. According to Mary Meeker’s iconic State of the Internet Report, smartphone users spend 89% of their total time spent...
The Problems Facing OTT Messaging Apps
Thursday, November 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
tyntec, a telecom-web convergence company, has issued the results of its international OTT (over-the-top) messaging app survey and report titled, “The challenges facing OTT messaging apps.” The findings, based on responses from smartphone owners in the US and China, uncover trends in consumer messaging app usage to evaluate the probability of OTT messaging apps one day ...
Donky Releases SDK to Deliver HTML5 Content for InApp Messaging
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
Donky has launched a new mobile SDK that enables the creation of mobile and web app inboxes and the delivery of HTML5 content to them. The module offers a customizable UI which enables developers to reach users with content without the restrictions of email. The goal of the platform is to bring the capabilities of HTML5 to in-app messaging to enable content deliver...
Marvell Expands JavaScript Based IoT Development Platform
Thursday, July 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
Marvell has added to its solutions for embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) product prototyping with its latest JavaScript offering and two new hardware prototyping products.Marvell’s JavaScript Sixth Edition contains more than 400 individual changes to make the language more concise, improve performance, and integrate support for modules. Kinoma’s XS6 JavaScript engin...
Native Ad Units on Mobile Do's and Don'ts
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Eddie de Guia
Native advertising has been practiced online since 2000, but it was only in 2014 that it exploded onto mobile. In addition to native ads in mobile Web browsers, in-app native advertising is growing in popularity across news, gaming, messaging, and other types of apps.Capitalizing on the in-app advertising opportunity is critical; users spent 86 percent of their mobile t...
Urban Airship’s Push Messaging Platform Rolls Out New Functionality for Mobile User Engagement
Saturday, August 30, 2014 by Richard Harris
Urban Airship has announced enhancements to its push messaging platform including cross-platform support for widgets and button-enabled interactive notifications in iOS 8 and rich notifications in Android 4.3 and Amazon Fire OS.The new enhancements were added to help drive deeper engagement outside of apps, on device lock screens and in the Notification Center, by offer...
Skylight SDK Lets You Create Smart Glasses Apps
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
Skylight is a software platform from APX Labs that can be used to create smart glasses applications for scenarios where it is desirable for hands-free, in-context, real time information right where work is getting done.It is a complete system managing the user experience on the smart glasses itself and it is the back end platform which powers the business...
Corona Hints At a New Ad Network With New CoronaCards
Thursday, March 6, 2014 by Richard Harris
Corona sent a letter to developers today to announce a new "closed beta" of CoronaCards. Essentially it allows developers of Corona and other platforms such as GameSalad, and Unity to "overlay" a version of Corona from within their apps (think interstitials). Here are a few examples of what they say cards will be good for:Developers using frameworks like&...
App Developers: 8 Things You Can Do With Deeplinks To Drive Traffic To Your App
Monday, March 3, 2014 by David Lee
Deeplinking will soon
be the primary way new users discover your app and the content within it. Being
featured in the App Store can launch your app to stardom, but most apps won’t
have that opportunity. Deeplinks however, offer a proactive way to expose the
content within your app to potential users who may discover your content
through searches or social media. Sa...
Moblico Releases Most Complete Mobile Services Platform that Drives Collaboration Between Developers and Marketers
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 by Richard Harris
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Apr 02, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Moblico, a leading provider of mobile solutions, today announced the general availability of its award-winning, proven mobile platform that provides developer tools with a marketer mindset. Moblico's platform empowers developers and marketers to directly collaborate to create mobile solutions that deliver rich content, d...