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  • Mobile App Directory Appolicious Deepens Integration With Yahoo; Launches Android App

    Leena Rao

    Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

    Monday, August 23rd, 2010

    Social mobile app directory Appolicious is deepening its integration with Yahoo today with the launch of ‘yap.appolicious.com,’ a website that to help people find an apps that run on Yahoo’s platform, and the re-launch and design of AndroidApps.com, a website that helps people find Android Apps. Earlier this year Appolicious announced a partnership with Yahoo to co-brand its Appolicious app directory. The startup’s founder Alan Warms (who sold his previous startups to Yahoo) says that traffic to Appolicious is exploding thanks to the partnership.

    Appolicious, which owns AndroidApps.com through its AppVee acquisition earlier this year, will now offer the Yahoo-branded mobile apps experience across all of its verticals (including the new vertical (Yahoo Apps).

    Similar to Appolicious’ main site, links to Yap.Appolicious.com and AndroidApps.com original articles about mobile apps will be featured elevant content on Yahoo’s media properties, including News, Sports and Finance. And both sites will now have the branded logo with “in association with Yahoo,” included.

    Appolicious also announced a new federated search functionality across the three properties that allows users to access user generated app lists, articles written about apps relevant to the search, and apps from the Appolicious recommendation engine. Additionally, Appolicious is releasing an Android app today, which like its iPhone cousin, allows user to import their app directory to the site, ratings, reviews, profiles, curated app lists, app pages, and more.

    Besides the Yahoo integration Appolicious has had a big year when it comes to product enhancements. The startup rolled out curated lists and launched an Appo.me URL Shortener for links to apps, and a Twicker ad model, which allows users to view tweets and offers from sponsors on the site. Late last year, Appolicious raised $1.5 million in funding and debuted an iPhone app.

    Company: Appolicious
    Website: appolicious.com
    Launch Date: May 1, 2009
    Funding: $2.07M

    Appolicious Inc. aims to solve the problem of app discovery for iOS and Android devices. Appolicious is the premier provider of “white label” app discovery experiences - we aim to be the “intel inside” vs. the “instagram” of App Discovery. Appolicious recently launched appoLearning, a deep veritcal app discovery site focused on education apps for children, powered by the Appolicious platform. The platform enables a host of experts to “own” categories from a custom taxonomy and score them a...

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