Quixey, the app search startup that signed a deal to power app search results on Ask.com this December, is today announcing another high-profile partnership, this time with U.S. mobile carrier Sprint. The operator will use Quixey’s technology in its Sprint Zone and Sprint Digital Lounge, the former its branded app and media store, and the latter a portal for finding similar content via the web… → Read More
App search startup Quixey is bringing in some senior management help to grow its business. The company has hired former Zynga executive Guru Gowrappan as its new executive vice president of products. Gowrappan held several roles at Zynga during his time there. Nicknamed “The Fixer,” he led M&A integration during purchases that included Newtoy and OMGPOP. → Read More
App search company Quixey is today announcing it has closed a $20 million round Series B funding. The round includes previous investors WI Harper Group, U.S. Venture Partners and Innovation Endeavors as well as new investors Atlantic Bridge, SK planet and Translink Capital, which the company says it chose with internationalization in mind.
The additional capital will be primarily used to help… → Read More
Earlier today, we posted on some data from Pando Networks that shows that free-to-play online games, often overlooked in the hype around social and casual games, are growing just as fast and as furiously around the globe as their counterparts. Obviously, much of this has to do with the industry’s transition from paid to freemium models — the examples of which are numerous not only in online… → Read More
Quixey, the Palo Alto-based startup that’s building a functional search engine for apps, today announced that it has closed a $3.8 million series A funding round. The investment was led by U.S. Venture Partners and WI Harper Group, with participation from Webb Investment Network alongside follow-on investment by Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors. The series A round adds to the $400K Quixey… → Read More
It’s almost funny: between iOS, Android, and the Mac App Store, we’ve entered the age of the App, where standalone programs often specialize in doing a handful of things very well. There’s an app for looking up baseball schedules, an app for finding the nearest gas station, and so on (you’ve seen the commercials). But despite the increasing ubiquity of these handy Apps, actually finding… → Read More
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