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Sponsored post: $86 billion EU app economy will support 4.8 million jobs in 2018
Gigaom Research forecasts that EU developers will collect $86 billion in 2018 revenue. $62.8 billion of that will come from contract labor. The report driving this post was underwritten by the European Commission.…
Read MoreSponsored post: EU app developers might want to rethink revenue strategies
Many EU app developers are missing a big potential opportunity to help companies outsource app work. The report driving this post was underwritten by the European Commission.…
Read MoreEU app developers should re-evaluate commercial strategies
Many EU app developers are missing a big potential opportunity to help companies outsource app work.…
Read MoreUnleashing the European app economy
GigaOM Research is teaming up with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway and the European Commission to better understand the potential European opportunity, and to identify potential bottlenecks to growth that EC policies might address. We're kicking off the project with a workshop in Brussels on June 14.…
Read MoreWhat’s Facebook mean for early developers? Huge traffic, apparently.
Facebook released some metrics around early partners for its app platform, showing how the apps affect their traffic. The results? Partners like Pinterest, Fab.com, Artfinder, Foodspotting and Foodily are seeing large increases in the number of users connecting to their sites.…
Read MoreCan a new wave of apps kill the 5-star rating system?
A new wave of apps aims to replace the increasingly crowded space of long-winded five-star user generated reviews (like those on Yelp and Amazon) with straightforward social recommendations. The newest entrant in this field, an iPhone app called Stamped, aims to win with simplicity.…
Read MoreCan Seesmic be lucky a third time?
Seesmic, the company best known for making consumer-facing social networking apps, has shifted its strategy for the second time in its four-year history, this time to focus on building mobile apps for the enterprise. Can the third iteration of Seesmic finally bring the company success?…
Read MoreWeddar Makes Weather Reporting a Social Affair
The crowdsourced approach to weather reporting used by new iPhone app Weddar means you'll have an impression of how weather on the ground actually feels, instead of just static numbers. Weddar co-founder Ricardo Fonseca thinks the human connection is what's missing from the mobile weather game.…
Read MoreRocketr Brings Social Notebooks to the iPhone
Groups are in when it comes to apps, and a new iPhone app aims to use groups to differentiate its note-taking capabilities. Rocketr is a simple, no-frills, cloud-synced note-taking web application which just got an official iPhone client, and it also has a seriously social side.…
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