Media Pitch: Appticles Wants to Help Publisher Apps Avoid the “Mobile Death Spiral”
The walls that surround the app store are about to come crumbling down, predicts Appticles CEO Ciprian Borodescu. His startup, Appticles, is dedicated to taking publishers’ applications out of apps [...]
‘Help, I’m Addicted to Kim Kardashian’s Game’
Performance Marketing
Kim Kardashian’s game is starting to take its toll. People are crying for help on anonymous social networks like Whisper to confess their addiction to this mindless app.
Popular Marijuana Game Gets Pulled by Apple
Performance Marketing
What a buzz kill, Apple. A popular pot-themed game, Weed Firm, has been removed from Apple’s iTunes App Store. The developer, Manitoba Games, had been riding high in the app [...]
QuizUp Tops 1 Million Downloads on Android, Too
Performance Marketing
QuizUp has more than one million Android signups since being made available on the mobile operating system on March 6, according to the count on Google’s Pla
Almost Extinct, Flappy Bird Priced on eBay for Thousands
Performance Marketing
How much would you pay to play Flappy Bird? That’s a question new fans must ask themselves, now that it’s no longer available for free via app stores. The developer [...]
Are Apple’s App Store Rankings for Sale?
Performance Marketing
Apple has made a concerted effort to ensure its App Store is a pure meritocracy.