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Apple's iTunes store: 500,000 iOS apps and counting
Less than three years after it opened for business, the App Store hit the half-million mark
Here's a nice round number likely to be trotted out at the Apple's (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
Sometime after midnight Tuesday morning, the iTunes team pushed through a batch of app submissions that sent the total over a six-figure milestone. In 34 months, Apple has approved more than 500,000 iPhone, iPad and iPod touch MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 24, 2011 6:38 AM ETPosted in: 148Apps, Android, Android Marketplace, Angry Birds, App Store, Apple, Chillingo, Chomp, Google, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch -
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*A sneak peek at Adam Lashinsky's deep dive into Apple's corporate structure, including a juicy anecdote on how Steve Jobs tolerates internal company failures (Hint: Not so well). (Fortune)
*LinkedIn plans to offer 7.8 million shares in its initial public offering (IPO), valuing the professional social network at MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 9, 2011 10:28 AM ETPosted in: Adam Lashinsky, Angry Birds, Apple, Initial public offering, LinkedIn, Mobile, PlayStation Network, Steve Jobs -
Where is Amazon's "Appstore"? - updated
It opened Tuesday, despite the trademark infringement suit Apple filed on Friday
[UPDATE: Sometime after 7:00 a.m. EST, the Amazon Appstore went live. Looks like Apple will have to go back to court and start specifying those unspecified damages it was seeking.]
Okay. It's Tuesday morning, and according to the New York Times, Amazon is supposed to enter the mobile app business today with a splash -- giving away a free copy MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 22, 2011 6:13 AM ET -
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Put a fork in it, everyone -- the Zune is dead. Microsoft will reportedly put an end to its ill-fated music-video player due to lack of demand. Instead, the company will focus on putting its Zune software onto smartphones likely running Windows Phone 7. (Bloomberg)
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 15, 2011 5:00 AM ET
AT&T may be leveraging MOREPosted in: Amin Zoufonoun, Angry Birds, Apple, AT&T, David Lawee, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Groupon, how to get an iPad 2, HP, iPad, iPad 2, Jambool, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Léo Apotheker, Microsoft, Postini, ReachLocal, Silicon Alley Insider, Sprint, TechCrunch, Verizon, where to get an iPad 2, Windows Phone 7, Zune -
Amazon Appstore gets Angry Birds Rio exclusive
Android Market's new competition will get a big name game at its opening.
Rovio has distributed an incredible 30 million copies of ad-supported Angry Birds in the Android Market to date. But Rovio is turning to the Amazon (AMZN) Appstore for their new paid application, Amazon Rio. The decision is an interesting one and should also serve as a wake up call for Google's Android Market.
There have been concerns among paid MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 14, 2011 10:30 AM ET -
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LinkedIn unveiled a slew of new features during a webcast including "InMaps," which presents a visual map of your relationships and connections, pages called MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 11, 2011 6:40 AM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Angry Birds, AOL, AOL layoffs, DailyFinance, Dell, Intel, iPad, iPad 2, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Today, RadiumOne, Rovio, TechCrunch, WalletPop, YouTube -
Angry Birds voted "best app ever"
At Macworld, an avian slingshot game wins top spot in seven categories
Angry Birds hardly needs any more accolades.
The game -- in which players use a slingshot to launch small flightless birds at pigs protected by increasingly complex but unstable structures -- dominated Apple's (AAPL) App Store for most of 2010. The $4.99 version is still the store's No. 1 best-selling paid app in both its iPhone and iPad editions and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 27, 2011 3:00 PM ET -
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"ChromeOS machines could immediately replace 60% of the Windows desktops in the corporate market." -- Linus Upson, VP Engineering of Google Chrome (Fortune)
Black Friday sales rose a meager 0.3% compared with last year. Despite thefts, MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 29, 2010 5:47 AM ET -
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"Almost every single app I have is better on the iPhone." -- Steve Wozniak (engadget via ITProPortal)
MySpace and Facebook announced "Mashup with Facebook," a product that lets MySpace users with Facebook accounts port their FB interests and MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 19, 2010 8:08 AM ETPosted in: Angry Birds, cablevision, Dell, Facebook, Financial, Google Street View, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, MySpace, Rovio Mobile, Sun Life, Tablet, TD Bank Financial Group, virtual property -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
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"Change just happens with new management and it's actually refreshing for all of us. So 15,000 employees, three people left? That's OK."
-- Yahoo's Carol Bartz on Fox Business News (Media Channel)At its "Back MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 21, 2010 8:10 AM ETPosted in: Angry Birds, Apple, Carol Bartz, eBay, Electronic Arts, Mobile, Netflix, smartphone addiction, Toyota, Verizon, Verizon Galaxy, Windows Phone 7, Yahoo
