App Development
Uiflow secures cash and Freshworks partnership to bolster its app dev platform
Uiflow, a company that enables teams to build frontend apps using their existing data, today announced that it raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Addition, Transpose Platform and Together F
Strapi lands $31M for its ‘headless’ CMS platform
Strapi, an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures and angel investo
Embrace raises $4.5M for its mobile application performance management platform
Embrace, an LA-based startup that offers a mobile-first application performance management platform, today announced that it has raised a $4.5 million funding round led by Pritzker Group Venture Capit
Apple’s widened ban on templated apps is wiping small businesses from the App Store
Following its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple <a target="_blank" href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/21/apple-goes-after-clones-and-spam-on-the-app-store/">released updated App Store guideline
Anil Dash, new CEO of Fog Creek, launches platform to remove barriers to app development
Fog Creek Software, responsible for the births of Trello and Stack Overflow, is today launching Gomix, a platform that wants to democratize app building. Gomix gives people working apps they can remix
Amazon Pinpoint helps developers keep users coming back to their apps
As developers build apps, the hard part becomes not only attracting sufficient audience to justify the exercise, but also finding ways to keep that audience engaged and coming back to your app. Today,
Requiem For The App Revolution
The app revolution is dead. In fact, it died years ago. It had been a good run, but a revolution is no longer a revolution when the model is the status quo. With new apps created every day, the revolu
How App Design Can Hurt App Development
Mobile apps have become so ubiquitous that it’s easy for most people in tech to assume that creating them is a simple, straightforward process. Look behind the curtain of their development, however,
Lessons Learned On App Design For Fast-Growth Markets
One of the typical mistakes developers make is thinking that because they’ve had success in one corner of the globe, they should be able to employ the same strategy to drive adoption elsewhere. The
Our Nine Favorite Companies From The 500 Startups Demo Day
It's that time again: 500 Startups just put on demo day for its ninth batch of companies at Microsoft's conference building in sunny Mountain View, Calif. The seed stage investor and startup incubator
Kinvey Mobile Identity Product Aims To Simplify Identity Management For Mobile Developers
Kinvey, a mobile development service, introduced a new product today, Mobile Identity Connect. The company says the new tool gives mobile developers easy access to enterprise identity management sys
Swrve Adds Dynamic Engagement Scoring To Help App Devs Better Monetize Their User Groups
It’s a mobile world, and making money from users on the go is the question that Yahoo needs to answer and that Facebook already has. For companies in between, it’s a tough race between dec
Adeven’s New App Store Sentiment Analysis Tool Helps Developers Draw Useful Conclusions From App Reviews
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
3 iPad Mini Design Considerations For Developers
<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Boris Chan is a principal at Xtreme Labs who leads product development and innovation efforts.</em>
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Former Oracle, SAP Execs Land $5.5M For DIY App Development Platform AnyPresence
With the consumerization of enterprise and <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device">BYOD</a> in full swing, big companies are being pressed into finding better ways
KitApps Launches A Mobile App “Wizard” To Simplify DIY App Development
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
A Fantasy App Store? CBS Sports To Launch “First Open Platform” For Fantasy Sports
Fantasy sports, just like everything else, have also been making the transition to mobile, with news aggregating apps turning to fantasy sports (<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/12/just-in-time