Tag: Apps

News and entertainment are the most popular apps

According to a new report by analysts In-Stat news and entertainment smartphone apps are downloaded the most, but productivity smartphone applications generate the most revenues. Productivity applications such as mapping, business and enterprise applications and phone tools and utilities generate 59% of all smartphone application revenue. “The competitiveness of the smartphone app market will intensify…

Getjar hits a billion downloaded apps

Less than 24 hours after Apple announced that their 100 million iPhone and iPod Touch “IOS” devices had collectively downloaded 5 billion apps, and created $1 billion dollars of revenue, app store GetJar announces their own set of records. GetJar (www.getjar.com), is now calling itself the world’s second largest app store, and has announced that…

Amazon release Kindle for Android in summer

Amazon is to launch a free Kindle app for Android to join the free versions for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, PC, BlackBerry. Kindle for Android, the free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their Android phones, is coming “this summer” according to the press release although there’s no…

AdMob releases new publisher tools

Mobile ad company AdMob has launched a whole series of new tools for their publishing platform to help make the whole advertising process on mobiles and in apps much more efficient. The tools have been beta tested with a select group of AdMob clients and are available now. New tools include a new Publisher Dashboard,…