Tag: GetJar

New advertising platform launching in US

We normally ignore releases about new mobile advertising platforms, but this one made us sit up and take notice. MoPub – any company name with the word pub in it always gets our attention – is a new US ad serving platform start up created by ex employees of Google and AdMob, and is funded…

App figures round up – Android now number two

We’re just doing some work on applications here at Business Mobile for a business partner, and part of that is to try and see the size of the market, so we went hunting  for figures on the number of applications in the wild. Unfortunately we just couldn’t find a single place with good figures that…

Mobile app market to be a two(ish) horse race by 2011

We love analysts reports at Bmob, but sometimes we just don’t agree, and the latest report from analysts ABI Research is a case in point. According to ABI Research they expect mobile application downloads from iOS and Android to account for 78% of all application downloads in 2010, with iOS taking the lion’s share of…

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…