Posts tagged Mobile Applications

Nine startup dreams and industries Google crushed in 2009

Dec 31st

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If you’re an ambitious young tech entrepreneur with a compelling product hacked together and a slide-deck in hand, there’s always one giant elephant in the room to worry about.
That, of course, is Google.
The search giant has made a ton of product announcements this year, ranging from minor tweaks to major new applications. There’s [...]

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Random House launches iPhone apps for its authors, partners with Mobile Roadie (via postie)

Dec 21st

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Although there’s raging debate over how to pull the publishing world into the digital age, there seems to be consensus that one important way to do so is via mobile applications. Today Random House announced its first initiative in that space, in a partnership with Mobile Roadie, a service that bands and artists [...]

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Q&A with GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs (via postie)

Dec 21st

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Ilja Laurs is the founder and CEO of GetJar, the multi-platform app retailer with strong claims to being second only to Apple in number of downloads. Recently, GetJar won the 2009 Mobile Excellence Award for Best Mobile Service. Laurs runs GetJar from offices in the UK, Silicon Valley, and his native Lithuania. I [...]

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Game makers say Apple is still the gatekeeper of success

Dec 9th

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“A great product and a great relationship with Apple is really the killer combination,” said Julian Farrior, chief executive at Backflip Studios. “So find someone who works at Apple, a cousin or someone.”
This seemed to be the defining sentiment during a panel discussion on how to start an app business from scratch during [...]