July 18th, 2012

AppDirect Pins Down $8.5M To Build A Cloud App Store Empire In The Sky, Rackspace Newest Partner

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AppDirect, a company that offers white-label cloud-based app stores, has today announced $8.5 million in funding to ride the wave of interest in cloud services and continue its expansion in partnership with third parties. And today the company also announced a new customer in that strategy: Rackspace, which has launched the Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace, an online store for cloud-based… → Read More

April 28th, 2011

AppShowcase Lets Companies Like SimpleGeo Spotlight Apps Built With Their API

Appstores.com, formerly Appbistro, is finally live today with the release of its AppShowcase product. AppShowcase lets platforms like Eventbrite and SimpleGeo automate the process of showcasing (I know right!) apps that are built with their APIs.

“AppStores.com is the most exciting new service for platform companies because it delivers an effective solution that we don’t have to design or develop→ Read More

February 7th, 2011

Appbistro Announces Appstores.com White-label App Store Platform

App marketplace for Facebook pages, Appbistro has expanded its scope today and launched Appstores.com. Like a non-enterprise Appia, Appstores will offer publishers the ability to create their own app stores like a (hypothetical) http://apps.techcrunch.com or http://apps.simplegeo.com. Says Appbistro founder Ryan Merket, “Every single company we talked to wanted their own app store.” So they made… → Read More