Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’

iTunes App Store Has More Than 100,000 Apps

By Om Malik | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | 8:52 AM PT | 6 comments |

iTunes’ app store has more than 101,000 approved apps and over 93,000 are available now, according to AppShopper, an app-related web site. Our friends at Mobclix suggest that there are 103,000 apps for the iTunes store. In September, Apple reported that nearly 2 billion apps had been downloaded and there were 85,000 apps available in its store. Back in April, there were 35,000. The growth of iPhone apps clearly hasn’t decelerated, by any means. It will be interesting to see what happens to the growth once the Android platform starts to boom, as predicted by some. There are currently around 10,000 Google Android apps.

Nokia Sues Apple Over Patent Infringements

By Om Malik & Colin Gibbs | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 8:24 AM PT | 24 comments |

Nokia said today it’s suing Apple over the alleged infringement of patents pertaining to WLAN, GSM and UMTS. The suit underscores the degree to which Apple has overtaken Nokia in the smartphone space; Nokia is clearly hoping it can be more successful in the courtroom than it’s been in the marketplace. Continue »

For AT&T, It’s the iPhone to the Rescue…Again

By Om Malik | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 7:31 AM PT | 18 comments |

Oh boy…does AT&T need the iPhone to keep its business going or what? In the third quarter, the company added 2 million new wireless subscribers to reach a total of 81.6 million. Further, some 4.3 million 3G-integrated devices were added to the AT&T network, of which the iPhone accounted for 3.2 million activations. And thanks to that, wireless data revenues jumped 33.6 percent over the previous year, to $3.6 billion, thus helping push the ARPU up by 3.8 percent from the same quarter last year. Continue »

Apple Is More Valuable Than Google

By Om Malik | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 7:34 PM PT | 45 comments |

googleapple Did you notice that today Apple became more valuable to the stock market than Google? The iPhone maker now has a market capitalization of $183 billion vs. $174.5 billion for Google. What does that mean to me?

For starters, people believe that Apple can continue to defy gravity. Secondly, when it comes to growth, people believe focus is the right approach. What do you guys think?

What New Product Will Apple Release in 2010?

By Kevin C. Tofel | Monday, October 19, 2009 | 2:33 PM PT | 4 comments |

iphones1Apple said this afternoon that it sold 7.4 million iPhones in its most recent fiscal quarter, 7 percent more than the same three-month period a year earlier and a whopping 43 percent more on a sequential basis. The numbers illustrate two key points: Mobile is indeed the future and reducing the base iPhone model to $99 is helping unit sales, in a big way. Continue »

Social Networks: Wherever You Go, There They Are

By Jennifer Martinez | Friday, October 16, 2009 | 4:10 PM PT | 1 comment |

facebook iphone app 3.0The number of people accessing social networks on their mobile phones at least once a month in the U.S. has doubled since the beginning of the year, to 10 percent in the third quarter from 5 percent in the first quarter, according to Forrester Research, in line with stats Facebook released last month. The number of people who accessed that social networking site from their mobile phones tripled to 65 million, up from 20 million people back in December. The data also heralds what many people sense, that mobile phones are becoming an extension of the lives we lead on our personal computers. 

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Twitter Goes to Japan

By Jennifer Martinez | Friday, October 16, 2009 | 11:21 AM PT | 1 comment |

twitterTwitter yesterday launched a mobile version of its popular micromessaging service in Japan, making it the first country to get its own local language version. To boost its presence abroad, the fledgling San Francisco-based company has been tapping into the mobile industry, unveiling a partnership this week with Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile operator, in addition to one with UK-based O2. Continue »

Skimble Now Lets You Get Physical On Twitter

By Jennifer Martinez | Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 5:09 PM PT | 0 comments |

skimbleSkimble, a web site that helps you plan and track your outdoor activities and workouts, hopped on the Twitter train today with the release of a feature that lets you tweet your activity to its site. It joins a growing group of exercise-focused applications and web sites that are integrating the micro-messaging service into their offerings. For example, Kevin over at jkOnTheRun has reviewed RunKeeper, an iPhone application that lets you post your workouts and run times to Twitter, and he currently logs his pushups workout to the onehundredpushups web site, which tweets his results.

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Shazam Raises Mo Money From iFund

By Om Malik | Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | 6:43 AM PT | 1 comment |

shazamlogo2.gifShazam, a popular mobile application that allows you to ask your phone what song is playing by holding it up to the source of the song, has raised an undisclosed amount of capital from the iFund, a $100 million fund started by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. According to published reports, Shazam had previously raised $12.3 million from Acacia Capital and DN Capital, even though company officials told us last year that they had raised nearly $20 million in funding.

First of all, I am shocked to learn that the iFund is not only investing but is still around, as it’s been awfully quiet. That being said, my original thesis on the iFund and other app-focused specialty funds hasn’t changed — I think they will be as successful as the RSS Fund or the Java Fund. Secondly, despite the popularity of the app, Shazam has some business challenges. Continue »

Aloqa’s LBS iPhone App Just Misses the Mark

By Jennifer Martinez | Monday, October 12, 2009 | 5:20 PM PT | 3 comments |

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From Loopt to FourSquare, it seems like every mobile-focused startup these days wants to hop on board the location-based application train. Aloqa launched an iPhone version of its free Android and BlackBerry application last week (the startup’s CEO, Sanjeev Agrawal, spoke during a panel at our recent Mobilize conference).

Like Geodelic, Aloqa helps you find nearby points of interest — what it calls “channels” — that you can customize according to your preferences. For example, if you’d rather get a cup of coffee from Peet’s than from Starbucks or another cafe, you can subscribe to the Peet’s channel. You’re then a tap away from pulling up a map that will guide to the store location you want to visit. Continue »

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