Brands are increasingly prominent on the App Store and Apple tends to love featuring folks like Britney Spears and Coca-Cola on the App Stores front page. But whos actually succeeding and which brands have managed to maintain high download numbers? PositionApp, the app that lets you track how iPhone apps are doing on the App Store

Apple breathed new life into the mobile app market, which has since run off in numerous money-making directions, driven by increasingly capable devices, high-speed networks and happier developers, says a new report. In 2009, 30 new non-carrier app stores opened their doors. - Mobile application downloads will increase from more than 7 billion in 2009 to nearly 50 billion by 2012, while revenue fro...

The Bing iphone application has been removed from all international iTunes App Stores bar the USA.  But instead of being the work of Apple, this is the work of Microsoft themselves.  Released in December last year, Bing apparently began disappearing on Monday this week, so why have Microsoft waited this long before taking it away? According

With no fewer than 50 App stores launching in the past 12 months, app stores were a big story in 2009.

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Recently the new version of the Foursquare was added to the iphone itunes but actually it was not ready yet. This problem has been restored but at the same time caused other problems such as those who had 1.6 version, were not able to use the service. Now the app has already been placed in the app stores and is available for everyone. At the same time an updated version is available eith...

The last year or so has seen one of the biggest changes in distributing mobile applications – the rise of the App Store. It has had a huge effect on all areas of development, especially in the gaming sector, which thrives on snack-sized gaming sessions. Here in San Francisco at the tenth Game Developer Conference (GDC), a number of sessions and panels have been specifically focussed on this ...

There are a lot of mobile apps out there, making it a little difficult to navigate crowded app stores for the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) and Java platforms. Thats where the Mplayit mobile app store/discovery engine comes in. The Mplayit Facebook app compiles mobile apps from different app stores and invites Facebook users to

Until now much of the discussion around app store platforms and developer communities has been a technical one focused on primarily on APIs (which ones to open to third-party developers when and why), toolchains and toolkits (the optimal level of integration and how to achieve it) and development costs (value for money and how to

How long would it take you to find some who has “made a success” out of an application store for any mobile device? Not long, I would think, because these stories are picked up and passed around to “prove” that App Stores work. A case in point is this post on Into Mobile, highlighting the success of an app for Google Android with 6,500 paid for downloads, earning $13,000. B...