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The 1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: AppMakr.com and PointAbout, Washington, DC
As Deal Radar draws to a close for 2010, it’s fitting that one of final companies to be covered has its finger on the pulse of many of the decade’s important tech trends. AppMakr.com is a “no coding” platform that enables non-developers to create iPhone (and soon Android and Windows) mobile apps for their brands,
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Avatron Software
Avatron Software develops productivity apps for Apple’s iOS platform, three of which have topped the list of top grossing third-party apps. Avatron has produced dozens of apps in partnership with media content owners in order to bootstrap its financing, but the company’s primary focus is on developing and marketing its own apps. Avatron has built
Deal Radar 2010: Bolt Creative, San Francisco, California
Bolt Creative is a small game developer and publisher for the iPhone platform that recently made headlines when its game Pocket God was voted Best App Ever in a contest run by Jeff Scott, whose blog monitors 140,000 apps.
Deal Radar 2010: PressOK Entertainment
In 2008, as readers will recall, the field of mobile games publishing underwent a dramatic change following the launch of the iPhone and its App Store, which disrupted the relationships between large, entrenched publishers and mobile operators and OEMs. Since that time, operators have launched their own versions app store, opening up their platforms to
Deal Radar 2009: DubMeNow
DubMeNow is a mobile application for exchanging business cards and instantaneously managing contact information. Founder Manoj Ramnani came up with the idea on a flight from Washington, DC to Seattle. He had collected over 30 business cards and began entering all of them in Outlook. He was halfway into the task when his laptop’s battery died,
Life Before Apps Stores
By Guest Author Saad Fazil While the iPhone and Android platforms and their ilk have certainly opened up the playing field to a long tail of developers, they are by no means cash machines. In fact, if you had planned on quitting your job to get rich developing apps for these platforms, you might want
Secret Recipe for an iPhone App
By Guest Author Saad Fazil The current economic climate has several people pondering whether to become rich by selling iPhone apps. Like anything else, making money by creating and selling iPhone apps is no easy task. If it were, most people would do it, thus increasing the competition and bringing down the revenue to zero.
