December 4th, 2012

Adeven’s New App Store Sentiment Analysis Tool Helps Developers Draw Useful Conclusions From App Reviews

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App Store advertising firm adeven today unveiled a new tool for its apptrace mobile analytics platform, which provides sentiment analysis for the App Store’s 24 million reviews. The free service lets users check out any title available on the App Store and see how user reviews score it in terms of three key criteria: positive feedback, addictiveness and crash complaints. → Read More

November 2nd, 2012

3 iPad Mini Design Considerations For Developers

Boris Chan Xtreme Labs

Editor’s note: Boris Chan is a principal at Xtreme Labs who leads product development and innovation efforts.

Apple finally unveiled the iPad mini last week. Perhaps its main selling point is that it runs the same apps as the iPad and works just as well with the same screen resolution despite its smaller size.  → Read More

August 8th, 2012

Former Oracle, SAP Execs Land $5.5M For DIY App Development Platform AnyPresence

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With the consumerization of enterprise and BYOD in full swing, big companies are being pressed into finding better ways to give their customers (and their employees) access to a robust yet user-friendly mobile experience — across mobile platforms. Looking to bring a little fresh air to the enterprise mobile market, former SAP, Oracle and Siebel Systems execs teamed up to launch AnyPresence in→ Read More

June 26th, 2012

KitApps Launches A Mobile App “Wizard” To Simplify DIY App Development

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It’s a familiar scenario for small business owners: You want your business to have a mobile presence, ideally native on Android and iOS, but you don’t want to pay a developer an armload to build that presence. You would do it yourself (after all, 12-year-olds can do it), but there’s no point in having a mobile presence if it’s just going to look sloppy. That just hurts your brand.

While a slew… → Read More

January 16th, 2012

A Fantasy App Store? CBS Sports To Launch “First Open Platform” For Fantasy Sports

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Fantasy sports, just like everything else, have also been making the transition to mobile, with news aggregating apps turning to fantasy sports (a la Taptu, Evri, and more).

But few of the big media properties have gotten with the times and opened their data-rich platforms to indie developers and data hounds. Today, it looks like CBS Sports is leading the way, as it is officially opening up… → Read More